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1980 Diamond v. Chakrabarty
From: Action Speaks Radio
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The Supreme Court case that helped put a ‘for sale’ sign on our genes.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WRPI, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 4
VoiceBox: Singing All The Way To The Polls
From: VoiceBox
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 7
Shirley Chisholm: The Politics of Principle
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm launched a spirited campaign for the Democratic nomination. She was the first woman and first African American to run. De...

Bought by WABE, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 10
The “Veep”
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 8
Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
Gracie Allen: The Joke That Became a Campaign
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 10
Wangari Muta Maathai
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
Tawakkol Karman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
Shirley Muldowney
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Queen Esther Montour
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Qiu Jin
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
Noor Inayat Kahn
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
Mukhtar Mai
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Mona Parsons
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:22
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Lydia Litvyak
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
Louise Michel
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
Kitty O’Neil
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Julie Krone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Jennie Hodgers
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Florynce Kennedy
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18

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