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Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Talk Music With Me - Bonnie Raitt: JUST LIKE THAT (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fasc...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KMUW, KUNM, WORT, WMOT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Talk Music With Me - Bonnie Raitt: JUST LIKE THAT (2 Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fasc...

Bought by WDDE, KNCT FM, WPVM 103.7, WVIA, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
Ladies' Choice (Vol.7)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A fresh two hour set of all-women musicians who play bluegrass, jazz and/or that visionary continuum of sounds in between

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
2021-12-31 Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Naomi Oreskes: The Schneider Award
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Each year, Climate One gives an award to a natural or social scientist for excellence in science communication. This year’s recipient of the Stephe...

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, WLPR , KGUA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
International Latino Book Award-winning Poet Xánath Caraza: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Wordless and Riveting, “felt / not said” by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri Comes From the Body
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mankwe Ndosi, Credit: Sally Nixon
The album "felt / not said" by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri features cello, contrabasso, percussion, wildly versatile vocals by Ndosi, but the albu...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
Dreaming of Gold
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Oshae Jones continues to make history at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 after becoming the first female to represent Team USA in the welterweight div...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
2021-07-16 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

Bought by WSHU, Maine Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
210716: A Feminist Climate Renaissance, 7/16/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Michaela Raymond, Valerie Conner & The Courage to Come Out
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Michaela Raymond & Valerie Conner
Michaela Raymond came out to her wife Valerie as transgender after more than 20 years of marriage and 70 years of hiding herself. Valerie responde...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 32:09
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 25: Changed: Anna Quindlen, Anna Sale and Kelly share readings and thoughts on family life., 3/7/2021
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Kelly talks about changing dynamics in family life with Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Anna Quindlen, and podcaster and new author, Anna Sale.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WFAE, WHYY, WXXI Rochester, WUFT and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 2: Never Give Up? with Nadia Bolz Weber , 10/11/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Nadia Bolz Weber and Kelly confess to giving up on all sorts of things and wonder if knowing when and how to throw in the towel is an underrated li...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WITF, WHYY, KQED and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Episode Three: Unpacking "What You Don't know Can't Hurt You" with Dani Shapiro., 10/18/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Caption: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Dani Shapiro and Kelly talk about the weight of knowing more, the temporary bliss of ignorance and why, in the end, what we don't know does hurt us.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WITF, WHYY, KQED and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode Four: Debunking "Trust your Gut" with Annie Jean Baptiste, 10/25/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Caption: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Annie Jean Baptiste and Kelly challenge that iconic bit of conventional wisdom: trust your gut.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WITF, WHYY, KQED and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Finding Common Ground with Wanda Holland Greene
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Best Of Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Wanda Holland Greene and Kelly spend election day wondering if it is possible to find common ground with absolutely anyone, even people we think we...

Bought by WYAP, WYAP, Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
Episode Six: Recognizing Our Agency with Wanda Holland Greene, 11/8/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Wanda Holland Greene and Kelly get pretty pumped up about what areas of agency are always available to every one of us in a year when it sorta feel...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WITF, WHYY, KQED and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 6
Episode Seven: Seeing Ourselves More Clearly with Wanda Holland Greene, 11/15/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Caption: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Just about everyone wildly overestimates their own self awareness. Wanda Holland Greene and Kelly consider the potential impact of deep self knowl...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WHYY, KCBX, WITF and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Everything Happens For A Reason
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Best Of Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Kate Bowler and Kelly Corrigan wonder if the well-meaning adage - "Everything happens for a reason" - might be doing more harm than good.

Bought by WHYY, RadioStPete Florida, WYAP, WHYY, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 17
Episode Eight: Three Stories of Extraordinary Forgiveness with Wanda Holland Greene, 11/22/2020
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Caption: Wanda Holland Greene on Forgiveness
Wanda Holland Greene and Kelly marvel at three true stories of exquisite forgiveness.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WHYY, KALW, KCBX and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Changing Everything Little By Little with Rich Roll
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Best of "How Change Happens"
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From drunk and despondent to world class athlete and #1 bestselling author, Rich Roll has deep experience with how change happens and the takeaways...

Bought by WHYY, WYAP, WYAP, Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 9