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Dr. Harold Greenwald, author of The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study (Ballantine), discusses the modern form prostitution takes in the United States, and its relation to the general moral aspect of the nation. Recorded in the studios of WBAI in 1960. Broadcast on WBAI and KPFA in 1961 and 1962.

Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was an American broadcast and print journalist, best known for her work as a foreign correspondent and her column "On the Record" that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune from 1936-1941. This is a recording of the campaign speech made by Thompson over the Mutual Broadcasting System, October 29, 1944, New York City. Copies of the speech were attainable from The National Independent Committee for Roosevelt and Truman, Hotel Roosevelt. This is a tape recording of one of those 78 rpm transcription discs. Very poor audio quality. No Pacifica network broadcast dates available.

Docu-drama about Annie Besant's and Margaret Sanger's fight to make methods of birth control available to the public. Prior to the middle of this century, methods of birth control were virtually unknown and information concerning contraception was considered obscene and kept from the large majority of the public. In this program we examine the efforts to bring this information to light and we discuss the lives and works of the women who made this possible. Parts of this program were particularly relevant in light of the struggle for abortion rights raging in the late 1970s. "My Fight For Birth Control" by Margaret Sanger was adapted for radio by Joanna Brouk. Annie Besant was dramatized by Wanda McCaddon. Margaret Sanger was performed by Joan Davis. Produced by Joanna Brouk.

Cynthia Wolff, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, takes a look at the female child as a literary figure in Post Civil War America. She focuses on the portraits of female children in early American literature, the wide appeal and popularity of these noted literary heroines, and the national need they fulfilled. Wolff delivered her speech August 12, 1975 in the Student Union Colonial Lounge at the University of Massachusetts. Produced by WFCR, Amherst, Massachusetts.