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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 05:29
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 58:02
Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Hypatia of Alexandria. It's a tale of murder, mayhem an...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 32:47
- Purchases: 1
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...
Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 3
The spirit of Judith cries out to us even if the names of her enemies are masked, even if exiled to the Apocrypha, even though she was -- but a wom...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 02:31:22
Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 182...
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Catskin is part two of our series on tales of the persecuted heroine. If you think Cinderella had it rough, this girl's dad will do anything to mar...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 18:18
In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 5
Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 7
Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 03:00