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Diane Jones–From the Corporate World to Carnegie Hall
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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Diane Jones is a composer, musician, and host on WCNY Classic FM in Syracuse. After too many years in the administrative world, she left the corpo...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 27:58
Post-Roe America preview: Conversation with Alison Block, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 48:10
Post-Roe America: 3. Trust Women
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 36:11
  • Purchases: 3
Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 4
Post-Roe America: 1. The Day Roe Fell
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dobbs decision, clinicians rush to decipher its implications.

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 26:52
  • Purchases: 4
Reforming Prosecutor Power - Especially After Roe
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sen...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
04 | Betsy Peters
From: Natalia Guerrero
Series: Avant
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Avant interviews Betsy Peters, director of programs at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum. She shares her perspective on designing experiences for the...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 18:36
WAMU Presents: Through The Cracks
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU Presents
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An hour-long radio special available to all public radio stations. This special program features selected portions of the Through The Cracks podcas...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WITF, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 21
Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
The Feminist Case for Joining a Men's Group
From: Felix Poon
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What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 13:11
  • Purchases: 1
Abortion Stories: Mother, Daughter And A Clinic
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Marilyn Evans stands outside the Women's Med Center of Dayton, where both she and her daughter got abortions., Credit: PAIGE PFLEGER / SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio. The Women's Med Center is ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
Why This Group Hands Out Free 'Morning After' Pills
From: Side Effects Public Media
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Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Indiana Play Explores Health Inequity For African American Women
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Actors, community members and researchers joined a talk-back after the performance of One Blood., Credit: JILL SHERIDAN/IPB NEWS
African American women in Indiana face disparities in healthcare and health outcomes. They are more likely to die during or after childbirth then w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Gender Ideology: A Pretext for Murder in Brazil
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just days before the anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
More Than Paper Cuts
From: Ibby Caputo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Audio documentary about gender discrimination in the workplace, part 5 of Scene on Radio's "Men" series.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 34:44
Cynthia and the City: Will Cynthia Nixon’s Celebrity Past Get Her to The Governor’s Mansion?
From: Augusta Anthony
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Cynthia Nixon is running for Governor. You probably know this and you probably know her from her days as sassy corporate lawyer Miranda Hobbes in ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Spectrum 06/03/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Where are all the women in science? - On the show, we honor the women of STEM - females in the fields of science, technology, enginee...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KRZA, WXDU, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 6
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 20 | Spring and Summer Fashion 2018 | Capsule Show Part 3
From: Tom Howell
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UnCommonCore Podcast | Episode 20 | Tom and 2thBrush cover Spring and Summer 2018 fashion in our third installment of the Capsule Show from New Yor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:12
How Nathan's Famous Became America's Top Dog
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: The Steve Pomeranz Half Hour
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Beware: Rolling Over Your 401k Is About To Get Weird, How Nathan's Famous Became America's Top Dog, How To Return To Work As A New Mother Successfully

Bought by WETD and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Season 2: Veronika Scott of The Empowerment Plan of Detroit Social Enterprise#42
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Two: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Veronika Scott
Veronika Scott of The Empowerment Plan shares her missional journey of discovering her passion for creating employment for the homeless. She courag...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 40:51
Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 3
ID Theft/ Women on the Front Lines/ Man behind the Chocolate/ RVs/ The Real Real
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Tanya Biank/women in military Segment 2&3: Dale Penn/identity theft Segment 4: Michael D'Antonio/Hershey Segment 5: Melanie Kaplan/RV sa...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3