PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
Debby Wurster is having a ball at her new home in a retirement community. She's got a full calendar of activities, she's making new friends, and......
Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 20:03
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:08
From "Sista Suppers," to business skills training, Social Enterprise expert Romy Gingras talks about what inspired Lips & Hips founder, Yodit Mesfi...
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 19:46
Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 21:39
- Purchases: 2
This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
Steffi’s passion, dedication, and strength contributed to achieving her goal of playing softball at a collegiate level.
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 04:24
As a little girl my mom always felt different because she was living in a world where she was the minority. Coming to a new country was not easy, b...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Warning: Do not listen on an empty stomach! In this story Amanda and her mom talk about you guessed it! Enchiladas! Amanda's mom, learned to make t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:50
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Jasmine explores the difficult and at times controversial subject of teen pregnancy-taking the mic to her friends and fellow schoolmates who have e...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:51
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
How a therapeutic dog named Jane saved a young woman's life in an unexpected way... She stopped trying to commit suicide.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 1
A four-minute documentary about sexual assault and healing.
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 04:08
Matthew Piazza is a hilarious scumbag from Boston, Mass. Drugs used to fuel him, pot still does, as Matt admits, "If it weren't for pot, I'd still ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 01:25:09
Wonder Woman first hit the comic book page over 70 years ago. We look at how she's changed at what she means today.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 39:32
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Strangers, Kenna, formerly known as Ken, came out 5 years ago. This is her story.
Bought by Public Radio for All, HowSound, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 3
No-Fear-Teti of Egypt's Cairollers discusses Women's Roller Derby in post-revolutionary Egypt.
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 41:06
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 10:06
