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147: Knitting Spies
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In WWI and WWII women were super sneaky and ingenious using their yarn and knitting needles to covertly transport coded messages. That's right, tod...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight - Cyrille Aimee Part One - 776
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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From her home in New Orleans, Louisiana Grammy nominated vocalist Cyrille Aimée joins host John Floridis by phone for a conversation about her uniq...

Bought by Ohm Radio , RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, RadioStPete Florida, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 5
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Irene Hall
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist Irene Hull.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Anna Louise Strong
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conor Casey and Crystal Rogers, Archivists for the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Crystal Rogers
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on the ‘Women in Labor History’ project. Song: Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ellie Belew and Megan Cornish
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
Whose Suffrage? (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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100 years ago women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment.

Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 17
Whose Suffrage? (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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100 years ago women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment Professors.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCT, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Whose Suffrage? (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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100 years ago women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
126: Marital Duels
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 13th century, in the part of the world that would become Germany, husbands and wives could settle marital disagreements with an elaborat...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Dame Shirley & Kate Magruder – Women and the Gold Rush Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Dame Shirley & Kate Magruder – Women and the Gold Rush
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Out in the Cold: The Political Imaginary of the Unhomed in the Great Depression
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An eviction protest in New York City dated Jan. 11, 1933.
As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Quarantine Road (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...

Bought by WCNY, WCPN, WNYO, KEDT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
Quarantine Road (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRZA, KPBS, WMMT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Quarantine Road (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, WSGE, and KXCV


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP12 Tribute to Candye Kane
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Candye Kane had an amazing life. She had a great voice, cool music and was a woman who was a champion for other women in the world regarding strugg...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 50:23
583-A Woman and Pluto
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
World in Progress 03/12/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
RDD: The Fight of The Past and the Future
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
97: The 6888th All WOC Postal Battalion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1

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