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MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
The Heidi Chronicles
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy.

Bought by WRKF, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 26
@SEXYBABEWET
From: Emma Lehman
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Written by Savannah Spatafora Produced by Emma Lehman

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:03
Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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Walking In The Sands with Mary Weiss & The Shangri-las, Peter Schickele as P.D.Q. Bach, Joyce Randolph as Trixie on the Honeymooners, Windy Craig a...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:53
Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Erin French
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Cara McDonald talks with author and chef Erin French.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Mrs. Warren's Profession
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Shaw's controversial classic about women and families.

Bought by WPCA-LP, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 24
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Is Barbie REALLY a New Woman? Don't Count on It!
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I said I wasn’t gonna do it, but in the end I gave in. Went to see the Barbie movie. She’s still tall, thin, white, sporting signature long blond h...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
4 Jul: Birth Of The Bikini
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Swimwear never made more of a splash than when designer Louis Réard unveiled his daring new two-piece at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5th, ...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:47
D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host 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


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 8
Golf at the Masters -- Still a Boy's Game
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Commentary from Martha Burk, who led the women's protest at the Masters Golf Tourney 20 years ago this week. What's changed?

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
A Modest Proposal: How to End the Abortion Wars
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. We already know how. Eliminate the need for abortion. If all babies were planned and could be cared for, ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:53
Ep. 8 Fake It Til You Make It
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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A life lesson is learned: sometimes you have to pretend to be the person you want to be first before you can be the person you need to be.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Ep. 5 2019 Was Not A Good Year For Me
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
Ep. 4 My S-town
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
Ep. 1 We’ve Been Here Before
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Building Community and Halting the Gas Export Boom on the Gulf Coast - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
World in Progress 05/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Mama Dschun was born in 1928 in the south of Iran. She witnessed the rise and fall of Persian rulers, lived through the Isl...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies: America's First Flag
From: Smithsonian
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In honor of Flag Day and the Fourth of July, the Smithsonian unveils the often misunderstood stories behind two of our nation's most famous flags: ...

Bought by WVTF, KALW, KVMR, KVNF, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 59
004 Helen Wheels
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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The life and music of Helen Wheels. Her band performed at CBGB's in New York during the height of the punk movement in the 70s, before her untimely...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
StoryCorps Griot: Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on May 30th, 2021 for StoryCorps.
Cousins Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker reflect on their strict upbringing and remember one afternoon when they decided to break the rules.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1

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