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Exploring the world at the speed of andante
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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This mini-episode from The Babblery features writers Patrice Vecchione of Monterey and Tania Romanov of San Francisco, who both wrote books about w...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 26:23
Giving Birth to her Heart: In conversation with Julia Nusbaum of Herstry
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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This episode features an in-depth exploration of women's storytelling, from talking about the roots of Julia's business, Herstry, to the reasons wh...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-07-01 Wanjira Mathai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Africa is responsible for only less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet its people are already suffering some of the world’s most devas...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20220701: Wanjira Mathai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women, 7/1/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Africa is responsible for only less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet its people are already suffering some of the world’s most devas...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
The Spittle of Babes
From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
World in Progress 01/06/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome affects millions of kids in South Africa - When pregnant women drink alcohol, the impact on thei...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Art for All
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Cydnee Moore creates artwork featuring striking lines in acrylic paint, bold colors, and stories steeped in African American heritage. She believes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Mother's Day Special 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: A story of generational poverty in Appalachia and the role that education plays in escaping that | Topic 2: Pasta Grannies | Topic 3: "Non...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
WAMU Presents: Through The Cracks
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU Presents
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An hour-long radio special available to all public radio stations. This special program features selected portions of the Through The Cracks podcas...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WITF, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 21
Getting Dirty
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Jan Thomas’ love of nature was fostered by her Old World Italian grandfather during her childhood in Cleveland, OH. She currently resides in Toled...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:17
Liberating Pleasure and Sex: Desire in a World Transformed
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
To Save One Life is to Save Humanity
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Houda knows a thing or two about having one’s life upended. About sheltering in place. This isn’t the first time she and her family have spent mont...

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:35
Poet Staceyann Chin, poet, griot
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Stacyann Chin about her long awaited anthology, Crossfire, and her relationship to a cannon d...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
S2 E7 Good Doctor
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Hospitalist Archna Eniasivam describes the time she made a diagnostic error with one of her favorite patients.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 30:57
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
Ani DiFranco: Binary
From: Joyride Media
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Singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco returns with songs that are Political with a capital P and where "the feminist diatribes are turned up high"

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KALW and more


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Inka Milewski
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Inka Milewski, at home in Miramichi, NB, Credit: David Kattenburg
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:42
Radio Réussite 4: Le Harcèlement Sexuel (Sexual Harassment)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Five junior high school students from Kante, Togo collaborate with host Carla Seidl to present skits and speak about sexual harassment in the schoo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:05
Radio Réussite 1: Il Faut Travailler (You've Got to Work)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Remembering My Mother: Eleven Years Ago Today
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: Continues to be the foundation for my life. Will forever be missed and loved.
On May 16, 2004 was the day I lost my closest friend, my biggest supporter, my biggest inspiration to be the best person I could be. and the best h...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:05
A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
March 31: Rebecca Lukens
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Rebecca Lukens
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
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
Caption: Merle Hoffman
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
Angry Black and White in South Africa
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Cobi teaching some of her 200 orphans, Credit: Anton Foek.
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 10:38
Representing Yourself in Court
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1