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035: (Single) Mothered: Choosing to Parent Solo, 5/10/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
The Many Ways We Mother
From: The Stoop
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An exploration of the different ways Black people parent

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KJZZ, KALW, KECG, and KUHF


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 5
Retrieved [A Women's History Month Special]: Egg Donors Share Their Stories
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

Bought by KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 12
Views from the end: Lynda Bluestein, medical aid in dying, and the importance of humor every day
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Lynda Shannon Bluestein who changed medical aid in dying laws, began a wind phone project, and made people laugh...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
'I Will Always Love You': Jada Star’s musical bond with her aunt Dolly Parton
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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What's it like being related to someone super famous? Like… Dolly Parton! Singer-songwriter Jada Star talks about shining bright in her aunt Dolly’...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Born Again: The Art & Healing Of Reborn Dolls
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Audacious host Chion Wolf looks at the world of Reborn Babies. These hyper-realistic-looking dolls are collected for their extraordinary artistic a...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Dog Mountain–Heaven for Your Dog
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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Dog Mountain is set on 150 acres on a private mountaintop spot in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The grounds are always open to people and their dogs.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Musician's Spotlight - Joan Osborne - 853
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Multiple Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter song interpreter Joan Osborne visits with host John Floridis to talk about her four decade career ...

Bought by WZRE, RadioFreePalmer, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
An Outside Watcher Coming In: Book artist Felicia Rice
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Book artist Felicia Rice on a lifetime of creating letterpress art and confronting the issues of our time.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-18 Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Nevada Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
230818: Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet, 8/18/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
StoryCorps: Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta at their StoryCorps interview in Logan, Utah on May 3, 2023., Credit: By Delilah Righter for StoryCorps.
Julianne Larsen and Mar Fenix Nauta remember the start of their romantic relationship, and how they’ve lifted each other up through the highs and l...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Musician's Spotlight - Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas 2023 - 841
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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World renowned Nuvo traditional Scottish music duo fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas return to Musician's Spotlight after 15 years t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:17
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
The Friendship Series (From the Open Nesters)
From: Tessa Krone
Series: The Friendship Series
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The Open Nesters launches a new initiative that will dominate the winter of 2023. As you may have heard in our end-of-year podcast we are turning o...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 30:08
Appalachian Vibes: Karlee Raye & Griffin Haley
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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This week I took a trip to Fainting Goat Studios in rural Bedford Virginia to meet with a couple of indiepndednt artists from Appalachia. Karlee R...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:54
Experiencing gender from both sides
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan
OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 06:46
OutCasting 101 -- Healthcare issues faced by transgender people – part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcasters Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Margery McDuffie Whatley and Robert McDuffie - 824
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Acclaimed pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley and her brother internationally renowned violinist Robert McDuffie return to Musician's Spotlight for a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Joy Harjo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Holly T. Bird talks with U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Ellen Airgood
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Author Ellen Airgood talks with Susan Odgers about her new novel "Tin Camp Road."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Victoria Chang
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Victoria Chang talks about approaching poetry from the business world, and the influence of her Taiwanese immigrant parents on her work. She ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jennifer Huang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Taiwanese-American poet Jennifer Huang discusses her debut collection, "Return Flight."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Crafting Spaces: Josina Manu Maltzman on Carpentry and Writing
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Josina Manu Maltzman, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Josina Manu Maltzman
How can a profession in the building trades lend itself to the craft of writing? And what does building a house have to do with social justice orga...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:53