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Quick Queue: Looking Past You
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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In modern society, women in their 70's and 80's are often pushed aside and ignored in the hustle and bustle of daily life. Miriam is 85, widowed, a...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
Sicilian Grandmother Takes on The Godfather
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia. Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
Maggie Kuhn
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Normal Bar: What is a Normal Relationship?
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, AARP’s Love and Relationship expert, Pepper Schwartz, gives the details of a survey, titled “The Normal Bar,” that uncovered the surprising ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Grandma Walked Wide"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
New York
From: Emma Miller
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City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 1
My Particular Wishes
From: Patricia McMillen
Caption: Narrator at Matsushima Bay, Japan, Credit: Sam Bader
Meditations on aging, death, and end-of-life health care

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
Culturology: "All My Elders Are Gone: Fabulous Crone" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Billie Jean King’s Life in Tennis
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, tennis great Billie Jean King discusses her sports career. Then, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot discusses the art of gracefully exiting any life si...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Not Too Late Basketball Camp
From: jessica lockhart
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Women have been playing competitive basketball for over a century. Although before 1971, women played by modified rules that allowed play in only h...

Bought by KPVL, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 3
Anna Halprin and the Planetary Dance
From: KALW
Caption: Anna Halprin explaining the Planetary Dance, Credit: Photo by photo by John Kokoska
Anna Halprin has influenced generations of dancers and artists with her unique integration of dance and healing work, as well as her use of perform...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 08:42
Sepia Elsie
From: Bishop Sand
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90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
It becomes more beautiful all the time
From: Anne Hoffman
Caption: The producer and her Grandmother, several years ago
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: René and Michelle Foreman
From: StoryCorps
Caption: René Foreman (R) and her daughter Michelle (L)
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
History of the Mendocino Environmental Center
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Is This Normal? The Essential Health Guide to Middle Age and Beyond
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Dr. John Whyte and Lisa Ann Walter, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 2
LIFE ON THE FARM
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit with two women who grew up on remote, central Montana farms in the 1920's.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Versions of Love
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Life is long and love is complicated.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 3
Conrad and Evelyn
From: Aileen LeBlanc
Caption: Conrad, Evelyn and Buhg
Aileen LeBlanc tells a very personal story of her friends Conrad and Evelyn who fell in love in older age.

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 18:25
Groundhog and Mirror
From: Ronan Kelly
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 5
Child Abuse & Neglect
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Diane Champe' discusses her latest book, Conquoring Incest

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Line Dancers
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Americans around the country are struggling in this recession. But in southern West Virginia, coal-mining communities have been living with econom...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
Ursula K. Le Guin: "Out Here"
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
Caption: Ursula K. Le Guin, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Dmae Roberts features author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Bought by Room Tone Selects and KLCC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Composing a Further Life
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Composing a Further Life this week on Prime Time Radio.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 59:54

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