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From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

This episode of A New York Minute In History tells the story of Grace Leach Hudowalski, the first woman to summit all 46 of the Adirondack High Pea...

Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more

Jazz Women of the 1940s

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more

745: Taking Pop Seriously / 746: Forgiving The Unforgivable, 11/26/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

American Veteran: She dreamed of a Marine Corps career, but wasn't prepared for the 'shadow side.'

From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran

Caption: Sergeant C.J. Scarlet, veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps., Credit: Ronan Killeen

Growing up as the daughter of a Marine, C.J. Scarlet dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. When she enlisted in 1981, she was part of the...

Bought by KTEP, KWMU St. Louis, Texas Public Radio, WVTF, RadioStPete Florida and more

701: Shapeshifting / 702: Finding Your Voice, 6/25/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

UPDATED AUDIO: Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE

Conversations: Elinor Cleghorn, MD

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations

Emily discusses the problem of gender bias in medicine with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of "Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World...

Black Women In History

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KUT, High Plains Public Radio and more

589: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? / 590: Born, Again, 5/29/2021

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...

2121: On Creating "Barry" & "The Outpost", 5/27/2021

From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®

This week on On Story we’ll hear from Bill Hader and Alec Berg, the creators of HBO’s hit crime show, Barry. And later we’ll hear from the filmmake...

2120: Refeed: The Power of True Stories to Drive Change, 5/20/2021

From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®

This week on On Story we’ll look at how true stories are told on the screen. From narrative films adapted from true events to documentaries that ex...

Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

RDD: Folklore

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to Kelly Savino. Before she was a teacher of fine art at the local botanical garden, Kelly was ...

88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more

133: Gail Collins and the Adventures of Older Women in American History

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

When the colonists first came to America their ideal wife "was a woman who was civil and under 50 years of age." In the early seventies an ad decla...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WNIN, KWIT, KUT and more

It's Your War Too, Miss and Mrs. America

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife

Caption: Producer Kate Murray teaching Sherry Holdridge about audio editing., Credit: Texas Folklife

Sherry Holdridge speaks out about her grandmother's experiences during WWII, polio, and the store Sherry opened, Oh Say USA. This story was created...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

From: Distillations

This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence

From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"

This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

OutCasting 52 - LGBTQ women in AIDS activism - part 2 of 2

From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting

Caption: Journalist and activist Ann Northrop, Credit: Bill Bahlman

This week on OutCasting, public radio’s LGBTQ youth program, we continue our conversation with Ann Northrop, a longtime journalist and activist, ab...

Bought by KZYX

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful

For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR

88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

The Story of Jane

From: Radio Diaries

In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

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