PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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A Nightmares to Fairy Tales love story with shock rocker Alice Cooper and his wife of 48 years, dancer Sheryl Goddard Cooper.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 16:48
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 21:58
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
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
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
In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 2
Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 4
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...
Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 4
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
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
