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You Are An Authority
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
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This show covers a variety of topics including medicine, music, an unconventional road trip and summer camp for grownups. Program Directors: please...

Bought by WRVO


  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Infant Mortality: A special documentary
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
Conversations
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy
From: Knitwise Media
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An hour-long radio documentary, featuring the voices of fourteen women who have breastfed their children between one and four years. Some of the m...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Women The Vote
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: Votes For Women!, Credit: Library of Congress
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...

Bought by WSGE, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRUA, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and WAMC


  • Added: Mar 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 5
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 KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
Haiti's Dark Secret: The Restavecs
From: Rachel Leventhal
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Josimene is ten years old. She is one of Haiti's 300,000 restavecs, or child slaves. While her parents were promised she'd be educated if they sen...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2009
  • Length: 12:57
The Emergence of Joni Mitchell
From: Paul Ingles
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Two-hour exploration of the seminal work of heralded songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, KGLT, WHRV, KVMR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Shawn Colvin: Inside "These Four Walls" (118:00 / 59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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Three-time Grammy winner Shawn Colvin is captured in the studio working on her 2006 album THESE FOUR WALLS and reflecting on her career in music.

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, WHRV, Wyoming Public Radio, WNTI-FM, WILL and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 9
The Attack on Black
From: Jessica Seigel
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Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
Life Stories - Jobs: Women at Work
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Three portraits of women working - A pastor, a seasonal worker, and a judge

Bought by KUT, KOSU, WEKU, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2003
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 51
Life Stories - Families: Women and Children
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone. One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portra...

Bought by KUT, Red River Radio Network, KOSU, WGBH Radio Boston, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 14
Life Stories - Jobs: Teaching ("Educating Esme')
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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The Diary of a First Year Teacher, "Educating Esme." One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portraits.

Bought by KUT, KOSU, WSKG, WRPI, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 14