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Infant Mortality: A special documentary
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
How Many Students Really Graduate From High School?
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU 88.5's American Graduate Series
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D.C. sees huge drop in graduation rate under new calculation

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:46
Breaking The Cycle When Dropping Out Runs In The Family
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU 88.5's American Graduate Series
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Two women reflect on four generations that haven't finished high school

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
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
The Mikie Show #45, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s a new episode the The Mikie Show! This time around we speak with Mary Hartman, PhD. A former dean of Douglass University, she is at the forefr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Access to Advancement, Part 1: Entry Point! Opens Doors and Launches Women Into STEM Education Programs and Careers
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration of the National Effort to Increase the Role of Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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Entry Point provides internships in science for undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities. Each year, the program places students with ...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 2
Access to Advancement, Part 1: SCI-VIS Makes Space Camp Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration of the National Effort to Increase the Role of Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCI-VIS) is a week-long camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, that help...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Mairead Maguire (Peace Talks Radio) 59:00 / 54:00
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Mairead Maguire
This time on Peace Talks Radio, a 2006 conversation with Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire. Also talk about middle school...

Bought by KWMR, KCNP, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Alabama Alabama
From: Anton Foek
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One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 1
"Marion the Librarian"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming
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...in Marion's own words, set to the song "Marian the Librarian" from "The Music Man"

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
Crusts - Kim Szawan - Zookeeper
From: Ray Gard
Series: Crusts
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Kim Szawan - Zookeeper

  • Added: Dec 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
The Women of Center
From: KRZA
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Five women in the small town of Center, Colorado, talk about their decades of social and political activism.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, and KRFC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 5
Becoming a Man
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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Two transgender stories from Joan Schuman

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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ThoughtCast talks with Harvard physicist Lisa Randall about her new book,"Warped Passages".

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 11, 2006
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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