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Female truckers: Meet the women behind the wheels
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Fewer than 10% of truck drivers are women, and this episode of Audacious, meet three of them: One drives a tow truck, another owns a CDL training s...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
09-18: Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger, 7/19/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Valerie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Disruptive Narratives With Dr. Brittany Lewis: A Conversation with Stayci Bell (Part 1)
From: KMOJ-FM
Series: Disruptive Narratives with Dr. Brittany Lewis
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Stayci Bell is a daughter, mother, grandmother, gardener, photographer, actress, puppeteer, healer, leader and story tell. Stayci defines her self ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:12
StoryCorps: Kristin Glasgow and Karen Offutt
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Kristin Glasgow (left) and Karen Offutt (right)
In the late 1960s, Karen Offutt was a patriotic teenager who got chills whenever she heard the “Star-Spangled Banner.” At 18, she dropped out of nu...

Bought by WDBM, WVBI-LP, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California and Alice Wong, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Credit: Alice Wong
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
All in the Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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After months on strike, FairPoint Communications workers reflect on going back to work.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
Why do we wait so long? Jackie’s Journey to a home.
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
Caption: Jackie taking a break from building her house.
Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2
A Stop Along the Way
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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There's a love affair off Interstate 95 in Bangor, Maine.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 4