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Furious Flower
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Clifton on the cover of 'Wild Blessings'
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVSC, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
A Woman of No Consequence
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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The story of a remarkable Indian woman who struggled with the bonds of tradition and finally broke them in old age, told by her granddaughter.

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KVNF, KVSC, WOMR and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 31:32
  • Purchases: 20
Universal Phenomenon
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson uses samples of Janet Xiong's voice as she explains what it was like for her to come to American and meet white people and black peop...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Beauty In A Broken World
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
Caption: Author Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book which draws parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the plight of the Utah prairie dog

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 23:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
This I Believe - Dalia Sofer
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Since nothing is permanent, Dalia Sofer believes happiness is found in life's more ephemeral gifts.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
Brad Pitt, Garlic and Onions
From: The humble Farmer
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What do women want?

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: :39
A Story About How I'm Not Going to Tell One by Annie Kahane
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
Interview with Irish Poet Eavan Boland
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Irish poet Eavan Boland talks about why we cannot leave the past to the people who write the history books.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 12:43
I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Earshot!
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Review of audiobook I Feel Bad About My Neck

  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:59
Interview with Award-winning poet and Novelist MARGE PIERCY
From: Tish Pearlman
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
What's the Word? Shakespearean Queens
From: Modern Language Association
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gertrude, Cleopatra, and Margaret--perspectives on women and power

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kate Mosse (no, NOT the model), The Labyrinth
From: Claudia Cragg
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Interview with the best-selling British author

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 35:23
Interview with award-winning poet, ALICE FULTON
From: Out of Bounds
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Conversation with award-winning poet ALICE FULTON

  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
What's the Word? Women Public Intellectuals
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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While men of letters have traditionally achieved the influential position of public intellectual, in the twentieth century a number of important wo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 17
Down the rabbit hole with Maggie Sefton
From: KRFC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview with Maggie Sefton - author of knitting mysteries

  • Added: Mar 09, 2007
  • Length: 29:06
What's the Word? Medieval Women
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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A literary view of the lifestyles of medieval women.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WKMS, KZYX, WLIW and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Women Warriors
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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From Joan of Arc to GI Jane--a look at women warriors.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, WHFR and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 29
What's the Word? Elizabeth I and Victoria
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Literary portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
Women Who Can Fly: Trina Robbins and Superheroines
From: Elizabeth Chur
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
The Heights, The Depths and Everything in Between
From: Tanya Ott
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Growing up is never easy ... but some of us make light of things like junior high angst by writing books based on our experience. This is author Sa...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:59
Bottom Dollar Girls-Part 1
From: Tanya Ott
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The author of the Bottom Dollar Girls series talks about being a first-time novelist and writing about all the crazy characters she finds in rural ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 09:31

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