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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
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
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
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
GRAILVILLE
From: renee wilde
Series: COUNTY LINES
Caption: Oratory at Grailville, Credit: renee wilde
Eighty years ago - in 1940 - two Dutch women came to Cincinnati to start a spiritual center on a farm. They were part of The Grail, a women's movem...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
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
National Writers Series: Paula McLain
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Paula McLain talks with Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Amy Bloom – Love as Creator
From: Barry Vogel
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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
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
Tribute to Aretha Franklin: "Lady of Mysterious Sorrow"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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Tribute to Aretha Franklin

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts and Lynne Olson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2
NL 19-13: Jazz Women Of The 1990s, 3/25/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights' decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson and more.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers -- Dr. Shelley Stamp Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Dr. Shelley Stamp talks digging, allegory, and the relative nature of shocking subject matter.

Bought by WDBM and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2018
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Oneself: Victoria Price and Bobby Bluejacket
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Michael P. Daley and Victoria Price
Interviews with Victoria Price, author of The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self, and Michael P. Daley, author of Bobby Bluejacket: T...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
PN 17-53 "The Pain Reliever" by Carrie Olivia Adams
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
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After an artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, Carrie Olivia Adams celebrates the lives of pioneering women in me...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KHSU, KENW, and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
NL 18-13: Joni + Jazz: Joni Mitchell, 3/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:03
RDD: A Special Guest
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week The Rough Draft Diaries will take a brief break in its line of connections to give you the opportunity to meet Amanda Lucidon. During Bar...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1