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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
Women Making Music: Mary Gauthier
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Mary Gauthier is a Nashville based performer who has used her rich life experience as fodder for her material.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, Public Interactive, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Tori Amos
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Tori Amos has always had a one of a kind take on music making. In this three minute vignette she talks about the changes pregnancy and motherhood...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Joan Baez
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In this "Women Making Music" vignette folk icon Joan Baez ponders her evolution in both her personal and artistic life since her beginnings as a pe...

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WYOU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Erin McKeown
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Singer songwriter Erin McKeown muses about her artistic process and fascination with Judy Garland in WXPN's continuing series of short modules call...

Bought by PRX Remix, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 9
Women Making Music: Jolie Holland
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Jolie Holland is a Texas-born singer-songwriter with an impressive musical vocabulary and a wandering spirit. The newcomer muses about her life in...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Vermont Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 9
Women Making Music: k.d. lang
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Wi...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 8
Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Veteran singer songwriter shares insights about her music as part of WXPN's Women's history month series Women Making Music.

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 9
Missed Connections
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting

Bought by WKNO and GAUF


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Miss Subways Reunion
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Meet the ladies who won the bygone "Miss Subways" contest that ran from 1941 to 1976

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
Marathon Runner
From: WHYY
Series: Olympics
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Marathon Runner

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Born Smiling
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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An adult daughter, bringing flowers to her mother's grave, imagines what her mother would say to her, both condemning and loving.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Learn from My Mistakes
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
German Measles
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A mother reveals to her daughter that, faced with a likelihood of birth defects, she decided against abortion, and was lucky. "What would you have...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Lawyers
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Bus Driver-Long Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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What the bus driver thinks about while she's staring staight-ahead

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WHCP-LP Cambridge, The Story, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 6
School Front Office
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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You're going to the Principal's office. But don't worry. There's a nice lady down there

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KSJD, PRX Remix, KCUR, and KUHB


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 5
Parking Ticket Writer-Long Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The most hated woman in the world -- the parking ticket writer -- gives her side of the story

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KPIK-LP, KSJD, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bus Driver-Short Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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What the bus driver thinks about while she's staring staight-ahead

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KUHB, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 22, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 4
Parking Ticket Writer-Short Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The most hated woman in the world -- the parking ticket writer -- gives her side of the story

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHB, WUAL, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 22, 2003
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 4
Melissa's Diary, Part 1: Teen Mom
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Melissa didn't mean to get pregnant. After 12 years of living in the foster care system, she's trying to build the family she never had. "The funny...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 10
Stevie & Me/Reunions (by Design and by Surprise)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Radio Tales For The Road
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Transformational journeys through time, space and memory

  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 58:36
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4

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