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Unveiling The Ancestors
From: Anne Hoffman
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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:10
OutCasting 101 -- Healthcare issues faced by transgender people – part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcasters Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
USAF Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Good Death
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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Is there such a thing as a good death? In this episode we reflect on some of our own experiences of death, and get some fresh perspective from Sa...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 52:04
Teaching women to fight for themselves
From: Hannah Herner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
After experiencing domestic abuse, Michelle Dirienzo started her own company to teach women self-defense in a non-threatening environment

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Come Up
From: Rae Solomon
Caption: Tanya Benson, Credit: Tanya Benson
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Falling in Love for Three Minutes
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Zooey, a grad student and dance instructor, loves to both lead and follow. There was never a question about whether or not she would continue to do...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
Other's Milk: The Potential for Exceptional Breastfeeding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Kristin J. Wilson
Just two generations ago, breastfeeding was considered second best to infant formula. Today, however, it’s regarded as a newborn’s birthright.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
To Think There's Nothing Else Out There
From: Sofia Saldanha
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A tribute to the science fiction american old-time radio series, combined with an intriguing testimony of a woman that suspects that an alien race ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Ada Decades
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paula Martinac
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The scariest thing about heroin? 'You're gonna love it'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Alyssa started using heroin when she was 14. She’s now 20 and works as a daycare teacher., Credit: FLICKR PHOTO / B.A.D. HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BRADADOZIER/
"My own family didn't even know who I was anymore. I didn't even know who I was anymore."

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Dissecting Hillary's Loss
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Bordo
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16-years in government service, and 8-years occupying the White House. All of that experience did her little goo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions, The Experimenters
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WLRH, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 12
#SCFlood The Local Buzz
From: Sloane Spencer
Caption: South Carolina Strong, Credit: Sloane Spencer
Two weeks before devastating flooding ravaged South Carolina, Stephanie Bridgers opened a community coffee shop, just blocks from one of many delug...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
The Importance of a Good School Nurse
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
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Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
A Mother Who Kept Fighting
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: Maria Perez with her daughter Estefania
Being a mother isn’t easy. It’s harder being both single and an immigrant. But that didn’t stop Maria. RadioActive’s Estefania Chirino Perez shares...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:20
Cooking Potatoes In Idaho — A Thanksgiving Story
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY host Julie Sabatier tells a story live on stage about that time she cooked potatoes for her Idaho in-laws.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3: Joan and Shirley's Story
From: Mother
Series: MOTHER: A PODCAST
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
"I didn't really want to have children. It's just that I got pregnant." -Shirley, 57, Nebraska

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Her Speech
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Victoria is trying to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. She is getting a little better every day.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
The Power of Poetry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fashion'Uji
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For teenage girls in Lewiston's Somali community, dress is a form of self-expression--but how do you dress both modest and modern? Sahro Hassan, a ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 5
Author Jenny Bowen, “Wish You Happy Forever"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
OOC2: Chris Taylor
From: Jake Harper
Series: Out of Context
Caption: Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor , Credit: Jake Harper
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:40
Dissociation
From: Barbara Morris
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A non-fictional piece about how I relinquished my power of DISSOCIATION in order to finally allow someone to love me.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:35