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Feb 13: Russian- Suvorova on Bess Truman
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:29
National Women's History Museum Radio Spots
From: Russell Hodge
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25 Radio Spots for Women's History Month

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:38:44
  • Purchases: 3
Muscle Beach
From: Charlie Schroeder
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A profile of the new and old Muscle Beach

  • Added: Jan 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:09
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Part Five: The American Obsession with Driving
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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How the experience of driving VegOil parallels the experience of the first automobile drivers.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 06:06
Agnes De Mille - Relation
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Choreographer Agnes de Mille relates dancing to music. (1958)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Agnes De Mille - Script
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Choreographer Agnes de Mille laments the lack of a coherent script for recording dance. (1958)

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agnes De Mille - Gesture
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Choreographer Agnes de Mille marvels at the universality of certain gestures. (1958)

Bought by WUAL and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agnes De Mille - Composing
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Choreographer Agnes de Mille points out the handicaps with which a choreographer must work. (1958)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo story
From: David Person
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This is the story of the only white woman martyred in the Civil Rights movement.

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WEKU, Audible, WFDD and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 8
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
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An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21
Deep In Our Hearts
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights ...

Bought by WCPN, KZYX, WRPI, KUT, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 19
Anna on the Homefront
From: Whit Richardson
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An intimate look at a wife of a National Guard member deployed to Iraq

Bought by KHNS, KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, KTUH and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 11
The Miss Subways Reunion
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Meet the ladies who won the bygone "Miss Subways" contest that ran from 1941 to 1976

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
The Attack on Black
From: Jessica Seigel
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Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
JAZZ RHYTHM DEMO
From: DAVE RADLAUER
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JAZZ RHYTHM DEMO AND EXCERPTS

  • Added: Mar 22, 2004
  • Length: 47:00
A Pioneer in Writing Women's History
From: Barry Vogel
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A conversation with Prof. Gerda Lerner, a foremother of women's history.

Bought by WVAS, KVNF, and WUSM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Civil War Widows
From: Radio Diaries
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Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Vocalo.org, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 14
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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For Women's History Month: this award-winning documentary chronicles her life and times.

Bought by WJCT, WKMS, WABE, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCUR and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2003
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 24
The WASPs: Women Pilots of WWII
From: Radio Diaries
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The story of the first female pilots in WWII.

Bought by KVMR, KUT, RadioFreePalmer, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KCNP and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 22:42
  • Purchases: 50

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