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From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

Baking by Ear (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW

Baking by Ear (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Baking by Ear (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WJCU, WFHB and more

Baking by Ear (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNMU-FM

BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age

Bought by WJCT, WNSB, WCQS, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB) and more

BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Troy Public Radio, WKCC, KRZA and more

Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...