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Episode 140: Cowboy Bob
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:54
583-A Woman and Pluto
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
World in Progress 03/12/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
StoryCorps Griot: Janis Porter and Olivia Hooker
From: StoryCorps
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Dr. Olivia Hooker, who lived to be 103, sat down with her goddaughter Janis Porter to discuss her groundbreaking life as the first African American...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:05
97: The 6888th All WOC Postal Battalion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Real Love (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, Harford Community Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Real Love (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Real Love (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WPCA-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 12
133: Gail Collins and the Adventures of Older Women in American History
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Gail Collins & Lauren Schiller
When the colonists first came to America their ideal wife "was a woman who was civil and under 50 years of age." In the early seventies an ad decla...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WNIN, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Reel Discovery: The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin marches into battle with a queen who's fighting for freedom in The Warrior Queen of Jhansi.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Paula McLain
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Paula McLain talks with Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 123: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
WoodSongs 972: Si Kahn & Friends
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Folk legend Si Kahn on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes folk icon Si Kahn to celebrate his legacy with special appearances from T...

Bought by KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, WETS, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 22
National Writers Series: Marie Benedict
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist and director of arts and culture for the city of Detroit Rochelle Riley interviews author Marie Benedict.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts and Lynne Olson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
117: The End of Human Trafficking May Begin With Radical Empathy -Julia Flynn Siler
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
112: How Radical Change Happens - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl, Credit: Casey Orr
Times like these call for radical ideas. But is being a radical a positive thing? And if so, why are so many radicals seen as dangerous? In this...

Bought by KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2
NL 19-13: Jazz Women Of The 1990s, 3/25/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights' decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson and more.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
31: Badass Women
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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We fell down a Pinterest hole and found a whole bunch of women who we'd NEVER heard about in history classes. Ching Shih, an infamous Chinese pirat...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:09
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2