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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
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I’m not sure how one marries the  proprietary "I give the right to life”  to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: Nothing says conspiracy theory like a girl..., Credit: Downeast Magazine
Today The River Is Wide introduces a new specialty item : the two and a half minute Conspiracy Theory. We don’t want to ramble. We’ll keep it brief...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
Caption: ..knowing who you’ve left behind.., Credit: Susan Cook
In my state, a few years ago a bright, articulate local woman ran for the state House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was ‘Fight Like A Gi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:32
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In my state, this week, leaping off the lower right hand corner of the Front Page of the state’s largest newspaper was this “Educator who won one...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
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An exclusive opportunity to hear the Kim Kardashian story from the author of her latest biography, Sean Smith

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
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Junior year is universally known as the most difficult, stressful year of high school. Between academics, extra-curriculars, and athletics, college...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
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It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
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Tilcara Webb delves into the pros and cons of technology. Evil agent of lost hours, or helpful Godsend?

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on why college debt is the highest in history, and it is especially hard on women.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: HOST PAM MCKISSICK
Produced for Weekend Edition programming, Pam McKissick Without Reserve is a one-hour talk show that delivers unfiltered commentary on the world of...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 47:15
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(Short commentary under 2 minutes) When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: Sage Davis
Sage Davis is a 23 year old Anishinaabe woman and the mother of a two year old who lives in Onigum on Leech Lake. In this essay, Sage tells us abou...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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It's been a hundred years since women textile workers waged one of the most important strikes in US labor history.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:16
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In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
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It may seem highly unlikely, but it's true: a woman may unseat Jimmy Hoffa Jr. as president of the huge, corruption-ridden Teamsters Union.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:34
Caption: Keep your hands off my character, Credit: Susan Cook
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00