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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.

Psychiatrist Dr. Jean E. Neighbor (1915-1995) gives the third and last talk in a series of talks about marriage (see also BB0507) sponsored by the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, given on March 22, 1964. Note in box reads "'In today's matriarchal system in the Western world, men are often caught in a painful vise between their own strivings for independence and autonomy and the demands and controls that their unconscious needs draw from women,' according to Dr. Jean Neighbor, psychiatrist and chairman of the Advisory Board, Contra Costa Mental Health Association. In this talk, sponsored by the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, Dr. Neighbor analyzes the role which men play in the marriage in America, examines the social factors that affect marriage, and catalogs types of neurotic needs both men and women are attempting to fulfill through marriage." This recording was formerly cataloged as BB0485.01.

The audio track (actuality) to a theater-piece about the psychology, sociology, and physiology of menstruation produced by Isabel Welsh. Presented at the U.C. Art Museum during the Festival of Bay Area women artists, October 1, 1972. Second half of program is Isabel Welsh being interviewed by Jan Legnitto about the piece.

Interview done in U.S.S.R. in September 1977, with Maria Vasilievna Marievich, a female anthropologist of a Turkic-speaking tribal minority the Gagauz, living in Soviet republic, Moldavia, bordering Romania. She is the assistant head of the anthropology sector of the Academy of Sciences of Moldavia, which at the time, was in the Republic of the Soviet Union just east of Romania. First we discuss the changes in the life of her minority, as experienced by her personally, in Soviet times. She is 40, but her area was held by Romania 1920-1940 but for one year, so the "Russian Revolution" occurred for her after World War II. Then we turn to her personal autobiography: 1 of 9 children of peasants who had too little land to make ends meet and had to work as laborers on the side before the Soviets came. Two children died essentially of starvation, one of hardship-caused illness. Interview portion contains Russian spoken in low volume in right channel, Mandel's English translation in left channel. The interview is approximately 28 minutes long, followed by listener call-ins.