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What is Swing?
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by Larry Kohut on Bass, Jon Deitemyer on Drums, and Jim Gaillereto on Tenor Sax for an hour of music and conversation abo...

Bought by WJSU and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 2
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Spiritual Edge: A woman takes on the Church by becoming a priest
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Maria Eitz is a priest for the San Francisco Sophia in Trinity community, Credit: Tom Levy
n the dining room of her San Francisco home, Maria Eitz shows off her priestly attire -- a beautiful red, embroidered stole...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
Josanna Kiggins: Skin Color, Gender and Song
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses racial discrimination and cultural gender norms with Josanna Kiggins, a young black woman living in the small, predominantl...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Nichole Ingersoll on Menopause
From: Alix Litwack
Series: Another Day Of Living; Join the Conversation!
Caption: Another Day of Living , Credit: Graphics by Scott Spitz
Our third series kicks off with featured guest, Integrative Nurse-Practitioner Nichole Ingersoll, as she discusses the early symptoms of menepause;...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Shannon's Home Birth Episode 1 Part 2
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: All our Babies
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Second part of this Episode. Part two of Shannon's home birth will air in March.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:21
StoryCorps: Colleen Kelly Starkloff
From: StoryCorps
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Colleen Kelly Starkloff (R) talks to her daughter, Meaghan Starkloff Breitenstein (L), about the day she met her late husband Max Starkloff.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
Real Love: A Valentine's Special from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money
From: WNYC
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A Valentine's Special from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money, hosted by Anna Sale.

Bought by KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KJZZ, KRPS, KUER and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 39
A Mother Who Kept Fighting
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: Maria Perez with her daughter Estefania
Being a mother isn’t easy. It’s harder being both single and an immigrant. But that didn’t stop Maria. RadioActive’s Estefania Chirino Perez shares...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:20
Let's Get Intimate
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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A personal essay exploring all kinds of intimacy.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
She Is Mighty
From: Phoebe Flanigan
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By day, Lynne Duquette Perera is a wedding planner, photographer, wife, and mother of two-year-old twins. But on Monday and Friday evenings, Lynne ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 3
Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 40:27
Pain Unknown: Living with Fibromyalgia
From: Anna Stitt
Caption: We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Trista and Hector Matascastillo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Trista Matascastillo speaks with her husband, Army 1st Sergeant Hector Matascastillo, about being sexually assaulted...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 2
Jasmine & Teen Pregnancy
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Jasmine explores the difficult and at times controversial subject of teen pregnancy-taking the mic to her friends and fellow schoolmates who have e...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:51
Anorexia, a family affair
From: Masako Fukui
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29 year old Kate hasn't eaten for six months. She has been hospitalised 11 times this year. She's had an eating disorder since she was a teenager. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 51:41
Enough To Love
From: Caroline Warner
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A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:41
Love in the Time of Aqua Net and Crushed Cherries - Irasema Gonzalez
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Irasema Gonzalez talks about coming of age as a young Latina in 1990s Chicago, and how her definitions of love and womanhood shifted with the passi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Tina Vasquez and Sonia Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
I Wish Him Back to the Wetlands
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Moriah Erickson reading her poems "The Mallard" and "Photo 1971."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Furious Flower Honors Rita Dove (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The most celebrated African American poets in America pay homage to the life’s work of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove.

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KVSC, KRDP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Caretaker
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Learan lost his wife to breast cancer a year ago. Now he is a single parent to two boys. This portrait is about love, loss and moving on.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Secrets of a Long Life
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lillian Vogel, Ph.D., author of “What's My Secret? One Hundred Years of Memories and Reflections,” a mem...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Up Close And Acoustic with The Bowmans and Famous October
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: The Bowmans (Claire & Sarah), Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
The bands The Bowmans and Famous October visit Up Close And Acoustic to talk about the evolution of their music and play some harmony-filled, melod...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1

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