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Anne Akiko Meyers in The Green Room with Lara Downes

From: Lara Downes
Series: THE GREEN ROOM with Lara Downes

Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...

Added: Nov 04, 2014
Length: 10:00

Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Apr 24, 2014
Length: 01:40
Purchases: 1

Caitlin Cary of NC Music Love Army PODCAST/No Music

From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock PODCASTS

Caption: NC Music Love Army We Are Not For Sale, Credit: Skillet Gilmore

Caitlin Cary may be known for her days in Whiskeytown, but the songwriter has forged strong bonds in North Carolina and recently joined with a scor...

Added: Nov 15, 2013
Length: 17:21

March 31: Rebecca Lukens

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Rebecca Lukens (March 31, 1825): An American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill that became the Lukens Steel C...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Jan 17, 2013
Length: 02:40
Purchases: 1

Tales from the South 117: Season 7 Finale and Top Stories of the Year

From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season

Caption: Grand Prize Winner Angela Gattin

This week it's our Season 7 Finale Show, featuring our Top Stories of the Year. In a 1-hour show or in two parts. True stories told by the Southern...

Added: Jan 06, 2013
Length: 59:00

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words

The story of Joni Mitchell is as convoluted and compelling as her music. She eluded industry clichés, spoke and composed in philosophical twists, a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Added: Dec 12, 2012
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 1

On the Move in Mongolia

From: Outer Voices

There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM

Added: Jul 11, 2012
Length: 23:43
Purchases: 5

Red Hot Mama's

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM

Added: May 24, 2012
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

The Possibility of You

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words

Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew? In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...

Added: May 09, 2012
Length: 13:39

Remembrance: On Time And Distance

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ

Added: Apr 30, 2012
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 5

Women's Health

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: 1999 US Postage Stamp, Credit: Istock photo

Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...

Added: Apr 03, 2012
Length: 28:54

05 Lubliner Nign

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 03:16

04 Lustig Zayn

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 05:24

03 Simkes Hanefesh

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 03:53

02 Sofia's Song

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 03:44

01 Shtayn Gart's

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 09:55

Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Merle Hoffman, founder, president and CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center, leads her readers through a personal story of raging political battles...

Added: Jan 31, 2012
Length: 28:58

The Witches of Lublin

From: Sue Zizza

(this 58:30 program is the final version) Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggl...

Bought by WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, KWMR and more

Added: Mar 15, 2011
Length: 58:30
Purchases: 25

Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin

From: KUT

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

Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues

Caption: Louisiana blues diva Carol Fran performs at her 76th birthday party., Credit: Photo by Barry Yeoman

Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana features musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform the blues—of...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio and more

Added: May 11, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 25

East Hundred: A Rock Band Waiting To Make It

From: Abbie Fentress Swanson

East Hundred is a five-piece rock band waiting to make it.

Added: May 08, 2010
Length: 05:22

See Jane Do: Mother's Day for Peace and Social Justice

From: Elisa Parker

Caption: CODEPINK Mother's Day for Peace Vigil, Credit: Jesse Locks, See Jane Do

The stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things for peace at the largest Mother's Day peace vigil in Washington D.C. Special guests includ...

Bought by KWIT

Added: May 06, 2010
Length: 56:10
Purchases: 1

The Mikie Show #4 Royal

From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show

We speak with writer and filmmaker Royal Miller about writing for daytime soaps—Guiding Light, As the World Turns, All My Children to name a few—an...

Bought by KUT