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Caption: Sarah Weddington, Credit: Weddington Center
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United Stat...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 2
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From persistence to flexibility, neighborhood team leader Paula offers an inside look at what it takes to be a volunteer with President Obama's re-...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WCSU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gloria Feldt
The future belongs to women. Around the world, women are inspiring each other to envision a world where women lead, but quite differently. Women ar...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, KSKQ, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
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CRIME AFTER CRIME -- Filmmaker Yoav Potash and lawyers Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa on finding justice for Debbie Peagler.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 27:16
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Jane Fonda and Patricia McArdle, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gail McGovern
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Co. about management challenges across divers...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Stephanie Guerra with host Abigail Mahnke, Credit: Lisa Scheps
I interviewed Stephanie in May 2011 about her 30 year addiction to heroin, her life as a prostitute to support her habit, committing burglaries and...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:34
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It may seem highly unlikely, but it's true: a woman may unseat Jimmy Hoffa Jr. as president of the huge, corruption-ridden Teamsters Union.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:34
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James B. Stewart and Christine Schwab, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
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The UN has revised upwards its estimate of future population growth. The new medium variant for world population by the end of this century is 10....

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, joins us today.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
Caption: Catherine Goddard Smith
Did you know that Winona was home to a silent film actress, an opera singer, a beautician to the elite and ladies of the night? Today on Culture Cl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 19:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Two women discuss why they refuse to pay for war by and resisting taxation.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 28:38
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Women and girls are a powerful accelerator for change, says Nike Foundation's Swan Paik. By allowing girls to fall through irreversible trap doors ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 30:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joins us today for an in-depth discussion on the organization's role in...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 26:08
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Susan Aryeetey discusses her work empowering women in Ghana. She has a background in journalism and communications, and has spent the last eight ye...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 26:51
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Brazil's President Lula da Silva handpicked Dilma Rousseff as his successor, even though she has never held political office. How important is cont...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Ann Wolfe with host Abigail Mahnke, Credit: Jeremy von Stilb
Ann "Brown Sugar" Wolfe is an 8-time world champion boxer who now owns her own gym. When Ann was young, her mother died of uterine cancer and then,...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 24:45
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We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00