Featuring A Strong Female Lead

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

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

Chicago to Mexico, by Bus

Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.

2014
11:47
Linda Lutton

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!"

My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover

When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.

2012
09:17
Yowei Shaw

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.

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

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.

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.