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NL 23-20: The Carla Bley Songbook, 5/8/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Aging Well (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Aging Well (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Aging Well (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KXCV, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Aging Well (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Baking by Ear (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Baking by Ear (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Baking by Ear (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WJCU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Baking by Ear (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
REPLAY Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Alongside the army of men on the front lines of conflict was an army of women in support roles.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
REPLAY Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Alongside the army of men on the front lines of conflict was an army of women in support roles.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
REPLAY Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Alongside the army of men on the front lines of conflict was an army of women in support roles.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, WFHB, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
REPLAY Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Alongside the army of men on the front lines of conflict was an army of women in support roles.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
The Almost Forgotten but Enduring Impact of Meridel LeSueur
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: A portrait of Meridel LeSueur, Credit: Courtesy of the archives of Becka B. Tilsen
Meridel LeSueur was a herald for a populist vision of America in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Twin Cities. Despite being s...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 17:01
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
Caption: Unwell Women
Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 43:24