Rainone, Nanette. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Hillbilly Women / Kathy Kahn ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac. (Part 2 of 2)

Kathy Kahn, songwriter, singer and author of Hillbilly Women (Doubleday) sings and talks to Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac about her book about women in the mountains. Kathy Kahn is accompanied on guitar by Holo DeSoteo.

August 24, 2025

Women: “Childness” / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 5 of 5)

Part five in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.5. The perspective of women as everybody’s children in society. Guests are Carol Goodman of the October 17th Movement; Brian Goldfarb, a 15-year-old student; Richard Cook, a 15-year-old student at Glen Rock Community; and…

August 24, 2025

Interview with Susan Sontag

Author Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004) is interviewed by WBAI’s Nanette Rainone in October 1973. They discuss the resignation of Spiro Agnew, the Watergate scandal and the Irving Committee, the false rhetoric of the “drug war”, the ties between patriarchy and fascism, and the ideology behind sexual liberation. Produced by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.

August 24, 2025

Reports from the 1975 American Association for the Advancement of Science (A.A.A.S.) Convention

This program consists of various reports on panels. Including a short interview by Bob Zalisk with Lewis M. Brascombe, Vice President and Chief Scientist of IBM. Other reports include: Lindsay Audin on energy, Eileen Zalisk on genetics, Nanette Rainone on human sexuality and Tina Blumenthal on urban architecture and model communities. Hosted by Paul McIsaac.…

August 24, 2025

An interview with Andrea Dworkin / interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Carol Lopate. (Part 2 of 2)

An interview with Andrea Dworkin, author of “Woman Hating” (E.P. Dutton, 1974), conducted by Nanette Rainone with Carol Lopate. Contains sensitive language.

August 24, 2025

Who’s on the secret team? / Fletcher Prouty ; interviewed by Paul McIsaac, Nanette Rainone and Carl Oglesby.

Author of Secret Team discusses Watergate.

August 24, 2025

The World behind Watergate / Kirkpatrick Sale and Carl Oglesby ; interviewed by Paul McIsaac and Nanette Rainone.

Discussion of the Watergate affiar; its causes, impact, and long term effects.

August 24, 2025

Hillbilly Women / Kathy Kahn ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.

Kathy Kahn, songwriter, singer and author of Hillbilly Women (Doubleday) sings and talks to Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac about her book about women in the mountains. Kahn discusses her work organizing with Appalachian women activists to protest strip mining, and her decision to write a book on their struggles because there hadn’t been any…

August 24, 2025

Dial ‘O’ for operator / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone.

Examination of the New York Telephone worker. Includes interviews with Louella Smith, who filed charges of racial discrimination with the State Division of Human Rights against New York Telephone and had her case taken up by the Center for United Labor Action, as well as other operators, service representatives and management. Produced by Bonnie Bellow…

August 24, 2025

Household workers / produced by Nanette Rainone and Bonnie Bellow.

This report is on the recent and unprecedented organization of household workers, and includes interviews recorded during the 2nd National Committee on Household Employment (NCHE) conference held in New York (ca. October 1972). At the conference, six hundred household workers met to hear speeches from the likes of Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm. There are…

August 24, 2025