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Lady Presidents
From: Amber Cortes
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Did you know that over fifty women have run for U.S. President? Women were running for president before they could even vote! Featured are the live...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KVMR, WJAB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 12:04
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Candye Kane
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Candye Kane muses about her love of music and how she was able to support her art and young son by working in the sex industry

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KVNF, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? Muslim Women Writers
From: Modern Language Association
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Works by female writers from Muslim countries offer us important perspectives on questions of religion, nationalism, and the role of women in Islam...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 12
What's the Word? City of Ladies
From: Modern Language Association
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In 1405 Christine de Pisan wrote a landmark book called _The Book of the City of Ladies _in response to works that attacked and slandered women.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2006
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 7
Part 2: Beyond the Veil
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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Women's lives in Iran defy stereotypes. Women are caught between modernity and tradition, and their rights under Iranian law reflect these paradoxes.

Bought by WBEZ, Radio Catskill, KVMR, WBEZ, KWCW and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 6
BRENDA RUSSELL: The Color Purple, Music Past & Present
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Music & Interview, "The Color Purple", Brenda's music "Past & Present"

Bought by WJAB and WSGE


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Girls From Cambodia
From: Outer Voices
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An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia

Bought by KUER, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, WUFT, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 17
She Grooves Radio Hour: NYC INDE ARTISTS
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Music by independent female artists from NYC

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
WOMEN OF THE BLUES SPECIAL
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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featuring music selections from Ida Cox, Clara Smith, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Big Mama Thornton, and other icons of American Blues.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, WJAB, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 9
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
She Grooves Radio Hour
From: Theresa Orlando
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A fine representation of the SHE GROOVES RADIO HOUR can be found within this show. Features ZAP MAMA, AMERICAN INDIAN MIX, INDE ARTISTS, AND BONNIE...

Bought by WMPG, KVNF, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 3
Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
From: Miae Kim
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30 years after the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims are demanding the U.S. pay reparations for damage caused by Agent Orange.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2005
  • Length: 27:17
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Ro...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, The Story, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 17
Katrina Survivor: New Orleans jazz singer Charmaine Neville
From: Miae Kim
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Hurrican Katrina survivor's first -hand account

Bought by KSJD, KGOU, KTNA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 5
Intersect Perinatal Hospice
From: Miles Eddy
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Explores the difficult subject, in four segments, of preparing simultaneously for a baby's birth and for a baby's death. Includes perspectives of...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 28:28
Parental Alienation and Child Custody
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Companion radio feature for PBS Documentary

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
Mothers in Uniform
From: KRCC-FM
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Mothers in the military talk about being deployed

Bought by KLCC, WJAB, Public Interactive, 90.5 WSNC, KSUT and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2005
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 8
Sandy's Story: County Fair
From: Megan Hall
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secrets behind the gerbil wheel

  • Added: Jun 29, 2005
  • Length: 01:34
Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV - Leopold's Women Bloom
From: Symphony Space
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The 24th Annual Reading from James Joyce’s Ulysses and Joyce's other works and letters. Featuring Stephen Colbert and Terry Donnelly.

Bought by WNMU-FM and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:56:43
  • Purchases: 2
Dear Birth Mother
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16
What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11
My Body My Temple
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo story
From: David Person
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This is the story of the only white woman martyred in the Civil Rights movement.

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WEKU, Audible, WFDD and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 8
Shades of Gray
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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an hour-long audio mosaic about abortion in America

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 18

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