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StoryCorps: Savannah Phelan and Kellie Phelan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Savannah Phelan, 8, talks with her mother, Kellie, about how she felt after learning that her mother was in jail on Rikers Island at the time of he...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Vanessa Silva-Welch and Arnaldo Silva
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Vanessa Silva-Welch (left) and Arnaldo Silva (right)
Arnaldo Silva and his daughter, Vanessa, have battled breast cancer together. At StoryCorps they discuss their past and current fights with the dis...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
Emily Dickinson: Hiding in Her Own House
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Emily Dickinson about her life and times. She speaks to us from the person of actress Wendy Norris.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps: Donna Engeman and Nicole McKenna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Nicole Engeman (left) with her mom, Donna Engeman (right)
Donna Engeman shares stories about her husband, Army Chief Warrant Officer John Engeman, who was killed 10 years ago while deployed in Iraq.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
#34 Lauren Mayberry
From: How To Be Amazing
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The lead singer, co-producer and co-writer of the Scottish pop band Chvrches talks to Michael about her journey from being a law school student and...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 56:40
Melody in Isolation
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Genya Ravan, 'Rock And Roll Refugee,' Has Stories To Fill Two Lifetimes
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: Genya Ravan (left) and director Chris Henry on the set of Rock and Roll Refugee, a new off-Broadway play about Ravan's early life in music. , Credit: Shannon Rednour/Courtesy of the artist
She came to this country as a refugee from post-war Europe; learned English listening to the radio; and before long, heard herself on it. She star...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:27
StoryCorps: Trista James, Tanya James and Michelle Paugh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 6
Full Circle
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
A Room of One's Own
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's North Side)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's Northside) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Hironda and Jesse of Manchester ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 1
Lena Cammarata (b. 1912, Yatesboro)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Lena Cammarata (b. 1912 in Yatesboro) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Morgan and Brisha of Manchester Academic Cha...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez, Dominican Republic native who came to the U.S. in 1951
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Uppity Women: Women's History Month Special
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vicki Leon
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 10 - A Mango Shaped Space
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: The Mother Daughter Book Club at One More Page bookstore discusses "A Mango Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Do you see colors when you do math problems? The heroine of "A Mango Shaped Space" does. Kids from the Mother/Daughter Book Club at One More Page b...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:28
Mrs. Winona County on Crohn's and Colitis
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: KQAL's Teri Tenseth visits with Mrs. Winona County, Nicole Brennan, Credit: Doug Westerman
On this episode of "Culture Clique" we visit with the current reigning Mrs. Winona County. She will share with us details about her competition thi...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 12:47
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
The Live Feed Presents: "Ellis Delaney"
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we feature the music of Ellis Delaney and her performance during the Concert on the Green Series on the campus of...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 33:09
  • Purchases: 1

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