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On Ms. magazine and womens' conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms. magazine. Mandel invited his wife Tanya to join him on the show to give her comments on the book, the articles, and her own impressions of the status of women in the Soviet Union from her visits there. They discuss the two pieces of literature for about 24 minutes, then open the phone lines to take calls from their listeners. End is cut off.

Program was originally cataloged with the title Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tammy Brantford interviewed by Peggy Stein and William Mandel. This particular audio recording, however, does not feature Tammy Brantford or Peggy Stein, so their names have been removed from the title and keywords.

This short documentary examines the impact of the machine that best represents the automation of office work: the video display terminal. The program includes music, sound effects, and interviews with office workers and female trade unionists in San Francisco, as well as experts in the field of occupational safety and health. Health topics include stress, radiation, muscular-skeletal strain, and eye problems from regular work at video display terminals. Heard in this program are Janet Bertinuson, associate director at the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California in Berkeley; Barbara Potkin, a member of the Office and Professional Employees Union; Lloyd Jackson, the electronic data processing liaison at Blue Shield, where Potkin works; Dr. Milton Zaret, associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at New York University; Helen Palter, president of the San Francisco Oakland Newspaper Guild; John Rogers, public relations director at Blue Shield. Written and produced by Mara Liasson. Engineered by James Bond and Kathy Jacob.

Previously cataloged as VDT's: health and safety in the automated office. This program is listed in the Folio as Occupational Health Hazards. Broadcasted several times in 1981 and 1982.

A discussion that challenges the myth that, thanks to our society's emphasis on youth and beauty, older people are uninterested in and incapable of enjoying sex, stressing the importance of touch and affection, the differences and lack of them in the sexuality of elders. The participants are Dr. Earl Marsh, gynecologist and psychiatrist and medical director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, and Mickey Apter, Ph.D candidate at the Institute. The program is hosted by KPFA's Peggy Stein.

Melody Ermachild, a forty-year old mother, describes how she got started doing private investigation, who she worked for, the kind of work she does (interviews, research, research in libraries, skip tracing, polling juries), some of the famous cases she's worked on (Geronimo Pratt, Larry Layton/Jonestown, Hell's Angels), and her opinions about the nature of the American judicial system. Ermachild also shares her appreciation of good jurors and her gratitude at having a female role model in her boss, Sandra Sutherland, at Palladino & Sutherland. A fascinating interview conducted by Phil Maldari. Includes phone-ins. KPFA, 1981.