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Women’s bodies serve as our children’s “first environments,” which is why food quality and safety are so important for pregnant and lactating women...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Breanne Marie
Breanne Marie is a relatively new country western musician who is rapidly becoming visible, along with her band The Front Porch Sinners, in Duluth...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 1
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During this program, Debra Gwartney reads from 'Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters' and talks about the challenges she faced...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WCSU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Hear stories of human trafficking survivors in post-war Iraq.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
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Director Debra Granik discusses her award-winning film, Winter's Bone.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Carolyn & Ortralla Mosley
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 24:45
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Domestic Violence compared between the older, middle and younger generations, with special guest Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Crazy Love

  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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
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An hour of Music & Interviews with The Be Good Tanyas, recorded live at the 2006 Thirsty Ear Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KGOU, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00