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The Hormone Cure
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Sara Gottfried
Despite what women are constantly told by their doctors and society – that weight gain, sleeplessness, diminished sex drive, hair loss and wrinkles...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
From This Point On
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
STACCATO
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: STACCATO LOGO , Credit: Judlyne A. Lilly
STACCATO is a weekly 2:30 feature covering events, trends and news in classical music.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Women in Combat
From: War News Radio
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On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
March 30: Georgiana Molloy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
Wild About Harry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: "42nd Street" by Warren
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Squeeze
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Handel Reynolds
Three years ago an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammog...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Judith Jones interview by Marion Kane
From: Marion Kane
Caption: Judith Jones
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:12
Red Hot Mama's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Broad Experience, episode one
From: Ashley Milne-Tyte
Series: The Broad Experience
Caption: Women working WWII, Credit: Creative Commons
Public radio reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte brings you a podcast about women, the workplace and success. In episode one: why we need a show like this, ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Women's Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: 1999 US Postage Stamp, Credit: Istock photo
Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Merle Hoffman
Merle Hoffman, founder, president and CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center, leads her readers through a personal story of raging political battles...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
Arab Winter into Spring
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Kheops PYramid, Credit: Wikipedia
While remembering the women of Egypt in 1980 we pay homage to the women in 2011

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Stamp Out Sexual Harrassment!
From: Dick Meister
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
GetWool with Nanne
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Nanne Kennedy left a life of mortgages and the career rat race to pursue something of a higher calling. She believes she has a responsibility to w...

Bought by WMPG and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 2
Women Still Being Shortchanged
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's way past time that we updated the law that supposedly guarantees women workers pay equal to that of men.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
Community Caring
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Sunday Father's Day Supper, Credit: Walter Murch
How do women share and care for each other through their ages.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 13:43
Quilting through History
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Quilt from London Quilters exhibition., Credit: Walter Murch
Quilting binds women together through history and in community.

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:56
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
STOP MISTREATING WORKING WOMEN!
From: Dick Meister
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Working women have been particularly hard hit by the global recession, in part because of long-standing discrimination.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
Obama's Promise to Women
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
President Obama's State of the Union promise to help women win pay equality has been largely overlooked.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:44