PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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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
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
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
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
In today’s confessional culture, secrets are generally considered bad, but this episode explores what opportunities open up when someone keeps a se...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
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
Brenda Child talks with Scott Hall about her new book. They discuss the pre-European and post-European Ojibwe culture, particularly as it relates t...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KSRQ
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 17:36
- Purchases: 3
The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
