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Bold Women of Montana - 0314 - Maggie Smith Hathaway
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0313 - Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0310 - Womens Influence on the Montana Constitution
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
AG 23-13: Tributes To The Lady, 3/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
Bold Women Of Montana - 0309 - Alma Smith Jacobs
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0308 - Emma Riley Smith
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
AG 23-12: Billie Holiday in the 1940s, 3/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Bold Women Of Montana - 0303 - Women's Protective Union
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
Democracy in Full Bloom: Women's March on Washington 2017
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: On the National Mall, Credit: Charles McGuigan
From where we stood, in every direction, as far as the eye could see, there were people holding placards above their heads, all of them moving, som...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 25:44
Baking by Ear (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Baking by Ear (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Baking by Ear (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WJCU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Baking by Ear (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Reel Discovery: Corsage
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins in the adventures a middle-aged royal who refuses to grow old gracefully in Corsage.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KKRN


  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lux I Want Wings
From: Bill Taylor
Series: When It Was Live
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:29
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
AG 22-46: A Jazz Date With Chris Connor, 11/7/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00

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