Featuring A Strong Female Lead
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Netflix isn't the only place to find a "Strong Female Lead." All of these audio stories feature the voices of kick-ass women.
Britney / Starlee Kine, Mystery Show
Chicago to Mexico by Bus / Linda Lutton, WBEZ
Teen Contender / Radio Diaries
My Parents Extreme Tango Makeover / Yowei Shaw, Transom
Woman Emerges from the Dark / Marianne McCune, WNYC
Melissa's Story / Radio Diaries
Shocking Pink / Hollis Taylor
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Britney
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
- 2015
- 44:30
- Starlee Kine
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Chicago to Mexico, by Bus
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
- 2014
- 11:47
- Linda Lutton
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Teen Contender
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
- 2012
- 15:37
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
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My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
- 2012
- 09:17
- Yowei Shaw
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Modern Day Scarlet Letter A
Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.
- 2013
- 08:24
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
Woman Emerges from the Dark
After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.
- 2013
- 06:17
- Marianne McCune
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Teenage Diaries Revisited Melissa's Story
As an 19-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah.
- 2014
- 19:34
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
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Shocking Pink
Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.
- 2005
- 36:29
- Hollis Taylor
- Jane Ulman