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PREA, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene, who is being held in the Indiana Wo...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:12
94: Hand Stitched Computers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
89: Jiu Jitsu Suffragettes
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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That's right. Way back in the early 1900s, when women were protesting for the right to vote, there was a four-foot eleven-inch woman teaching the S...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
Real Love (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, Harford Community Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Real Love (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Real Love (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In her book Real Love, Sharon Salzberg—one of the world’s leading authorities on love—shows us it isn’t just an emotion we feel when we’re in a rom...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WPCA-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 12
S04 Ep17: Turning Time, 12/28/2019
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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We are at that tipping point, that moment when one year turns to the next. As we head into the new decade, we'll take a musical trip through the c...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:29
“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 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
133: Gail Collins and the Adventures of Older Women in American History
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Gail Collins & Lauren Schiller
When the colonists first came to America their ideal wife "was a woman who was civil and under 50 years of age." In the early seventies an ad decla...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WNIN, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
77: Maud Stevens Wagner
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:29
Reel Discovery: The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin marches into battle with a queen who's fighting for freedom in The Warrior Queen of Jhansi.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amy Bloom – Love as Creator
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 11, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Women Scorned
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
73: Bridget 'Biddy' Mason
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
The Write Question - Virginia Reeves - 430
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Virginia Reeves discusses her novel, The Behavior of Love. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pam Jenoff, author of "The Lost Girls of Paris"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Pam Jenoff about her latest novel "The Lost Girls of Paris"

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:46
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Art of Exposing Rape in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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American artists such as Faith Ringgold, Suzanne Lacy, and Judy Chicago insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped const...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:05
WoodSongs 972: Si Kahn & Friends
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Folk legend Si Kahn on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes folk icon Si Kahn to celebrate his legacy with special appearances from T...

Bought by KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, WETS, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 22
S2 E9 Dead To Me
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 33:35
S1 E8 Even The Morgue Has a Wait List
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
The Start Of Festival
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:01

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