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Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A letter by Katherine Jones, signed K. Ranalagh , Credit: Michelle DiMeo
The woman beside the father of chemistry.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35
Suprabhatam (Auspicious Dawn)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on. For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Reflections on Charmstrings
From: Mark Head
Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
Secret Keeping
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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In today’s confessional culture, secrets are generally considered bad, but this episode explores what opportunities open up when someone keeps a se...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Puzzling Out African American Genealogy
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
A Brief History of Women in Comics
From: Bitch Media
Series: Popaganda
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Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 2
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 4
What the Truth Costs: An Advanced Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
Spoken Editions #203: Women Designing Lives of Their Own
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
Somewhere in Alaska
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: Radio Essays
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My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
Whatever Happened To Peshtigo Court?
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: Radio Essays
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The story of how the River East area of Chicago has changed from the land of greasy spoons and parking lots, into one of the most fashionable areas...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:50
Schmattas
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: Radio Essays
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Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" by Brenda J. Child
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" by Brenda J. Child
Brenda J. Child's latest book "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" examines the vital role women have playe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Life Before & After Title IX in Southern Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Cindy Davis talks about life before and after Title IX in Southern Minnesota.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
Ruffian
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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When Re:sound host, Gwen Macsai was fourteen, the incredible female race-horse, Ruffian, ran straight into her heart and left a permanent impression.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZYX, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 10
Amy Beach, December 27, 1944
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Undark
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Glow. Green. Light. Radium. Even the words are beautiful.

Bought by Remix Radio and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 30:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Real Story of Rosa Parks
From: Caroline Harding
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rosa Parks and the vital role of women in the civil rights movement

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 5
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5