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Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:36
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This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist a...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:49
Caption: Anya Cherneff
In physics, electricity is power. Electricity can also be power, though, in the sense that it creates opportunity for the pursuit of social capital...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"What Do We Owe You?" This poetic tribute to the failure of the Republican sponsored bill to end healthcare for millions of Americans- could be sun...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:47
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In our show today with Sara Farris we’ll ask, what’s behind the right-wing demand for women’s rights in the context of immigration (hint, it’s the ...

Bought by KZYX and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine has witnessed many domestic violence tragedies. In 2017, a woman, her son and a neighbor killed by her out of control partner were one of t...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...

Bought by XRAY.fm and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Now that the Republicans have rolled out the Senate version of Healthcare, a poetic tribute which could be sung to the tune of 'Getting to Know Yo...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
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Manal grew up in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. In her teens she was a religious radical, by her twenties she was a college-educated computer securit...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 09:57
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About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 4
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Repairing cancer-causing genes - A new app designed to make more informed patients

Bought by WJCT, WXDU, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:01
Caption: Actor Tom Hanks on Nerdette
Guests on Nerdette always assign listeners homework, and we’ve compiled the BEST OF THE BEST into this hour-long Nerdette summer homework special. ...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 30
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Dr. Sonia Patel practices psychiatry in Honolulu and is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novel, “Rani Patel in Full Effect”.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 40:31
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age

Bought by WJCT, WNSB, WCQS, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Danielle Gletow, One Simple Wish
With her nonprofit One Simple Wish, Danielle Gletow is bringing the joy of childhood to the lives of foster kids, one wish at time.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
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Listen to Popinjay’s CEO Saba Gul, who started out from MIT in a career in engineering and is now making a global social impact through connecting ...

  • Added: May 27, 2017
  • Length: 39:00
Caption: Kryshon Bratton
Hear how Houston pool-builder Kryshon Bratton has used the entrepreneurial "pivot" to stoke growth and create the work-life balance she wants.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 11:57
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we don't recognize the unkindness of entitled hatred, we may be quietly consuming more of it than we realize. That may be a way in which a lin...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:52
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
Caption: Mabel Webb Johnson Sims
Mabel Webb Johnson Sims as written and presented by Kim Crow

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:14
Caption: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Credit: Mark Higashino
Singer and 2017 NEA Jazz Master continues to go her own way.

Bought by WILL, WNJR, WTJU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 4