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Active Voices: Nell Bernstein- All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
From: Chris Goldstein
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Interview with Nell Bernstein about her book All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

  • Added: Dec 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
9 Reasons to Wear a Winter Holiday Sweater
From: Mary Ketarkus Brown
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Droll short about ugly holiday sweaters

Bought by KDNK and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2
Water Woman
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Black History Month
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Popular storyteller Imakhu Mwt Shekemet's contemporary version of Afro-Brazillian folktale, "Mae de Agua."

Bought by WSLR, WABE, KUT, KUT, WJAB and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 10
Home Planet: A not-so-perfect holiday
From: Spokane Public Radio
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We're driven by the belief that we can create this one perfect day or season, and the warmth generated by it will carry us through the rest of the ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBHM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Home Planet: (Christmas) Mom's Secret Christmas List
From: Spokane Public Radio
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Giving it a Go
From: Megan Hall
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Helena takes a go at finding religion

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dressy Girls
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
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An investigation of self-esteem, skanks, and the clothing of high fashion highschool girls.

Bought by WNJR, KFAI Minneapolis, WXLV-FM, WBEZ, KWCW and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 11
A Cook's Notebook: Steak au Poivre
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Lorraine ordered it even though it makes her gag.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2005
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: An Obstacle Illusion by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Often, what we think we see as an obstacle, isn't really there at all. It is just an illusion.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:06
Part Five: The American Obsession with Driving
From: Cynthia Shelton
Series: VegOil Fuel: the Unsung Alternative
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How the experience of driving VegOil parallels the experience of the first automobile drivers.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 06:06
Eradicating oppression
From: Voices of Our World
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Agusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed techniques, designed to free us of internal and external oppression, are utilized in youth group workshops i...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
Home Planet: A New (school) Year
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
Home Planet: Wanting the 'Firsts' to Last Forever
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Going to summer camp for the first time is a big milestone for a mother as well as a child.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
Tunnel Singer
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Profile of a singer who is losing her voice.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 6
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Women's Rights: an Unfinished Agenda
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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An examination of women's reproductive rights.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Islamic History - Made in America
From: Hana Baba
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A long feature on the the first female-led Islamic prayer in history, and the new Progressive Muslim movement that's behind it.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 1
Slip of the Tongue
From: Youth Radio
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Adriel Luis takes a different spin on the subject of beauty.

Bought by WGXC, YouthCast, and WMNF


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 3
Remote Control
From: Youth Radio
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Using the functions of a remote control, Alicia Zakon tells the story of a woman who is stuck between wanting to be in love and wanting to be free.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience
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A rare personal look into the life of a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court, her struggles against gender discrimination, antisemitism and severe ...

Bought by WDDE, KTSW 89.9, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCUR and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 38
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
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An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21
Deep In Our Hearts
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights ...

Bought by WCPN, KZYX, WRPI, KUT, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 19
Three Women
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3

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