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Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Shohini Ghose: Galactic Pioneers: The Women Who Mapped the Stars
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Her Space, Her Time: Trailblazing Female Scientists Who Decoded the Hidden Universe Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have tr...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 31:06
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies: America's First Flag
From: Smithsonian
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In honor of Flag Day and the Fourth of July, the Smithsonian unveils the often misunderstood stories behind two of our nation's most famous flags: ...

Bought by WVTF, KALW, KVMR, KVNF, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 59
Right to Privacy: Roe v Wade
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The controversial case you think you know.

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:53
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The case that kicked the government out of our bedrooms.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:53
And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote
From: PRX
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In the centennial year of the 19th Amendment, Rosario Dawson and Retta guide us through the fight for women’s voting rights, a history that resonat...

Bought by WILL, KUHF, KGOU, WKMS, PRX Demo Station and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 50
I Spy: Real Life Spy Stories
From: Rob Sachs
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Peggy Lee, The Singer-Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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Miss Peggy Lee (born May 26, 1920) was more than a pop star: she was also a world-class songwriter in the male-dominated world of jazz. On this Aft...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History Month: Blossom Dearie On Verve
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
Women's History Special - Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A one-hour program focusing on jazz singer and songwriter Peggy Lee. Great for Women's History Month!

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Area Voices: Northern Minnesota Women Head to Women's March in St. Paul
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Women's March 2016, St. Paul, MN, Credit: Katie Carter
Area Voices producer Katie Carter rode along on a bus from Bemidji full of women and girls headed to the Women's March in St. Paul. This segment o...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 18:11
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Witches' Hammer
From: Hold That Thought
Caption: Agnes Sampson and witches with devi, Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:33
A Woman's Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:12
Never On Sunday: The Hidden World Of Elena Fonseca
From: Samuel Robinson
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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin
From: KUT
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Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 20
MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
LIVE! UN Event / Photo Exhibit Opening Ceremony - 1000Women for the Nobel Peace Prize -March 4, 2006
From: Lys Anzia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
UN event / Photo Exhibit Opening Ceremony - 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize / Two files: 1. raw sound file / crowd mingling before event

  • Added: Apr 23, 2006
  • Length: 36:48
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
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
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21
Deep In Our Hearts
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights ...

Bought by WCPN, KZYX, WRPI, KUT, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 19