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What Works and What Doesn't in Stopping Gender-Based Violence?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women’s rights advocate Debora Diniz joins fellow activists and philanthropists to discuss...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Yolanda
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices
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Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Akkara's Mother's Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nigel Akkara
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
GPV30 Book Review - A Spool of Blue Thread
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:07
Remembering Bharati Mukherjee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bharati Mukherjee, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Firoozeh in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
GPV13 Book Review - Adultery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
Dipa Karmar, India's Pride and Shame
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dipa Karmakar in Rio
On Sunday night, much of India was watching television with bated breath. All for one young woman at the Rio Olympics. Her name is Dipa Karmakar an...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral history at ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 16:33
  • Purchases: 1
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: Simple Rediscovery #519
From: Teosson Wells
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In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 1
Anita O'Day
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was known for her counter-culture approach to performance. Breaking the molds of the stereotypical "girl singer" with her dress, her st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Tabled Fables 6 The Armless Maiden
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
Is the New Hot Yoga Really Good for You?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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Hot yoga is more popular than ever, with more types of yoga turning of the heat. Is it ok to do?

  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
MA-143 Good Enough Mom
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
Miss Smith and Miss Jones
From: Susan Kottler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When I was growing up in a small, rural city, we didn't even know there was a closet to come out of.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:09
Blood Mysteries
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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The lunar/blood cycle governs many types of creation

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:42
The Ribbon Demonstration
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The Ribbon Demonstration, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima - what people could not bear to lose in a nuclear war.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:14
"Hush"
From: Elizabeth Austen
Caption: What Sound Does It Make, Credit: Concrete Wolf Press
Poet Erin Malone reads “Hush,” a poem sparked by watching her son discover the power of naming what he sees. The poem prompts KUOW’s literary produ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:13
Getting Old is Hell
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The world through 94-year old eyes

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Steph Taylor
From: Charles Richards
Series: Turn On The Lights
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Interview with Steph Taylor, songwriter from various places on the East Coast.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 19:46