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What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
Women Who Can Fly: Trina Robbins and Superheroines
From: Elizabeth Chur
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Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
The Heights, The Depths and Everything in Between
From: Tanya Ott
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Growing up is never easy ... but some of us make light of things like junior high angst by writing books based on our experience. This is author Sa...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:59
Bottom Dollar Girls-Part 1
From: Tanya Ott
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The author of the Bottom Dollar Girls series talks about being a first-time novelist and writing about all the crazy characters she finds in rural ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 09:31
Bottom Dollar Girls- Part 2
From: Tanya Ott
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Author of the Bottom Dollar Girls series talks about becoming a novelist and how southern culture translates in the north

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 05:59
Episode 24: Interview with Joni Cole
From: Gary Smith
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An interview with Joni Cole, author, "This Day: Diaries from Women Across America"

  • Added: Apr 23, 2006
  • Length: 30:03
Memoir Cafe: Episode 26
From: Gary Smith
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Episode 26: A pot pourri of stories by women about men!

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 1
Memoir Cafe: Episode 27
From: Gary Smith
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This week's stories are about failure and success, often entwined.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:04
Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
"Appearances" in a "Rose Garden"? Author Joanne Greenberg on her writing, her life, and mental illness
From: Claudia Cragg
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"People don't understand most of us get up off the floor, spit out the carpet and get on with it..."

  • Added: Apr 05, 2006
  • Length: 17:14
What's the Word? Muslim Women Writers
From: Modern Language Association
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Works by female writers from Muslim countries offer us important perspectives on questions of religion, nationalism, and the role of women in Islam...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 12
Honest, triumphant...and pornographic
From: Susan Johnston
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When is literature pornography, and pornography also literature?

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 13:29
Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile
From: Claudia Cragg
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Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Bought by WYSO and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 2
Jan 25: English - Alona on Virginia Woolf
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:55
Jan 25: Russian - Alona on Virginia Woolf
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 24, 2006
  • Length: 01:53
English: Alona on Jane Austin
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday of this famous writer

  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
English: Alona on Emily Dickinson
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday of this famous poet

  • Added: Dec 10, 2005
  • Length: 02:36
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 11
Twilight's Breaking Dawn
From: Jacob C. Norman
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV - Leopold's Women Bloom
From: Symphony Space
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The 24th Annual Reading from James Joyce’s Ulysses and Joyce's other works and letters. Featuring Stephen Colbert and Terry Donnelly.

Bought by WNMU-FM and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:56:43
  • Purchases: 2
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11
1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1

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