PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

243 results


Piece image
Chris Rock's latest documentary Good Hair addresses the complexities of black women's hair in our society with humor. Dr. Althea Prince, a professo...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 23:04
Piece image
The 16th U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan talks about what led her to become a poet at 19, how she justifies and legitimizes being a poet to herself and...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:56
Caption: Linda Rodriguez, Credit: Mike Ransdell
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the debut poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION from ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angela Cheng, Credit: Lisa Kohler
Pianist Clara Schumann was ahead of her time -- she was a leading soloist of her day and a composer. Although she's best known as Robert Schumann'...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :25
Caption: Angela Cheng, Credit: Lisa Kohler
Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann was quite celebrated as a pianist, but she was also a gifted composer. Today, one her biggest fans is piani...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :24
Piece image
We take a look on why is the domestic violence a growing problem within Hispanics.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
Piece image
What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Jaramillo talks to a teen mom from Santa Fe High School and hears about a typical day in her's and her child's life.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: PRX default Piece image
one of the famous Gees Bend quilters talks about the tradition of quilting and their rise to international fame

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 29, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story is free! Impressive Indian girls' stories go out on the road as films

  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
Piece image
AMY DICKINSON, author of the nationally syndicated "Dear Amy" advice column talks, with great humor, about her her life and work.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Piece image
Conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the mostly positive changes that have taken place in the classical music, particularly the new face and image ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
This Story is free! Winnie Farao, a champion of girls' education who struggled to get an education herself, in Zimbabwe, tells her story

  • Added: Nov 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:48
Piece image
Hospice care is something that most people associate with elderly people, or at least terminally ill adults. But what happens when the life that is...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Explores the difficult subject, in four segments, of preparing simultaneously for a baby's birth and for a baby's death. Includes perspectives of...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 28:28
Piece image
Research shows women are main users of meth in Georgia.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center explores the loves and life of a legal Nevada brothel, Donna’s Ranch.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KRCC-FM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 17, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 4