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Gemma Bulos: Turning A Drop Into A Wave

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

If you’re listening to this broadcast, the chances are you can get clean drinking water right from your kitchen sink. But much of the world’s popul...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio

Added: Jul 22, 2016
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

Gender Bias & Online Sales

From: Susanne Bard

Buyers shell out a lot less on online auctions for when the seller is female.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR

Added: Feb 19, 2016
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 3

Adventurous Women, The Amazing Race, Trusted Traveler programs

From: World Footprints LLC

Meet adventurous women, run The Amazing Race and learn about Homeland Security's Trusted Traveler programs.

Added: Nov 15, 2015
Length: 59:55

Under Magnolia (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 03:43
Purchases: 3

Invisible Problems Among Asian-Americans

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...

Added: Feb 04, 2015
Length: 06:36

Preparing for the SF International Hip Hop DanceFest

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Dance company, Mind Over Matter , Credit: Allan Frias

About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...

Added: Jan 07, 2015
Length: 03:29

Neurosexism

From: Susanne Bard

Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...

Bought by KMXT

Added: Nov 28, 2014
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 1

Mind-Controlled Medicine

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: A brainwave-triggered implant which could potentially turn on genes controlling the production of therapeutic proteins., Credit: March Folcher/ETH Zurich

Could brainwaves one day trigger an implant that stops epilepsy and chonic pain episodes before they begin?

Bought by KMXT

Added: Nov 16, 2014
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 1

Furious Flower: Rita Dove

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Every ten years, the Furious Flower Poetry Conference is held at James Madison University. This year, the event was dedicated to renowned poet Rita...

Bought by KENW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Oct 10, 2014
Length: 02:55
Purchases: 2

Interview: Jimmy Carter's call to action

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: KALW's Hana Baba with Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States

KALW’s Hana Baba met up with the former president during his recent stop in San Francisco to talk with him about his book, and the issues facing wo...

Added: Aug 06, 2014
Length: 28:02

New Documentary on the Lost Girls of Sudan-"The Dawn Will Break"

From: Vero Balderas Iglesias

Caption: Sister Luise Radlmeier visiting South Sudanese women she mentored now living in the USA

The Dawn Will Break is a documentary that is currently in production. It tells the story of some South Sudanese young women, who after fleeing the ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jul 07, 2014
Length: 06:47
Purchases: 1

Barbecue of the Body: Sudanese women bring ritual to Bay Area

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

In Sudan, where my family is from, there is an ancient beauty ritual that married women perform called dukhan. It’s like a sauna, but with smoke. ...

Added: May 20, 2014
Length: 14:52

A Domestic Violence Story: Reforming Offenders/Protecting Victims (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.

This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by KUOW, WCPN, KUOW, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Oct 23, 2013
Length: 58:56
Purchases: 5

A Domestic Violence Story: Reforming Offenders/Protecting Victims (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM

Added: Oct 23, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

A Novel That Confronts Modern-Day Slavery (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...

Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Jul 22, 2013
Length: 02:34
Purchases: 2

Not Your Mother's Shop Class

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Shop class 20 years ago meant hacksaws and hammers, but today's shop class is about teaching innovation and creation through computer programming, ...

Bought by WJCT, KVLU, and Radio Newark

Added: Apr 11, 2013
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 3

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

When we think of early rock and roll most of us think of musicians like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. But all these legends grew ...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KUOW

Added: Feb 18, 2013
Length: 02:40
Purchases: 4

Edna the Engineer and National Security

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Feb 18, 2013
Length: 02:37
Purchases: 4

A tribute to Toni Morrison

From: With Good Reason

In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...

Added: Oct 26, 2012
Length: 02:39

Before she was "Aunt Viv"

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Before Daphne Maxwell Reid appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, she was a number of "firsts," including the first African American homecoming q...

Bought by KENW and WDBM

Added: Oct 09, 2012
Length: 02:29
Purchases: 2

Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden

With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

Added: Apr 04, 2012
Length: 29:01

Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio

Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR