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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
How Mae West's Singing Style Is In Bob Dylan, Chrissy Hynde, and Lucinda Williams Stylings.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rickie Lee Jones
My friend Rickie Lee Jones pointed out to me the similarities between Mae West and all these contemporary singers. Hear it for yourself.

Bought by KFCF FM and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 21:56
  • Purchases: 2
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Karen Hoskin — A bottle of rum...and a better world (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes talks with entrepreneur Karen Hoskin.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
71: How To End Sexual Harassment-Whitney Bell, Feminist Activist
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Whitney Bell
Whitney Bell got tired of receiving unwanted sexually explicit photos from men, and decided to do something about it: She gathered 200 of these ima...

Bought by KWIT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WMUU-LP, KWMR, and KSJD


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Fresh Talk: Cheryl Pope
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Cheryl Pope, Up Against, Credit: Auto Body
Chicago-based artist Cheryl Pope talks about Up Against, a performance in which she boxes down 700 water-filled balloons suspended from the ceiling...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 10:10
All Helping Hounds by Haleema Shah
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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How a therapeutic dog named Jane saved a young woman's life in an unexpected way... She stopped trying to commit suicide.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
On the Move in Mongolia
From: Outer Voices
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 5
Why We Eat Some Animals and Not Others
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious asks 'why in meat eating cultures around the world, do they find the meat of some animals disgusting and why do they eat meat at all?...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
THE SISTER
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
Caption: Sister Teresa Jackson, St. Gertrude's Monastery, Cottonwood, ID, Credit: Clay Scott
Teresa Jackson was a 40-year-old attorney with a good job and a good life...but she wanted something more. "I figured if I was going to have a mid...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Amazing 'James Barry'
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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The woman who became a man so she could become a doctor.

Bought by KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:18
  • Purchases: 3
Butterfiles of Michoacan (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c.2000
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 3
Hotel Isabel (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 2
Garden of Eden (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Hidden Messages in Zulu Beadwork
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube
You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Mediaeval Baebes
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: The Mediaeval Baebes, Credit: Hayley Madden
The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Fouta-Toro, Senegal: An Audio Postcard
From: Emma Jacobs
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A report on daily village life from Northern Senegal.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:12
Safeway Cindy
From: Claudia Cragg
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The tale of an unsung hometown celebrity

Bought by PRX Remix and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2006
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
A Cook's Notebook: Steak au Poivre
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lorraine ordered it even though it makes her gag.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2005
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1