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  • Majority report, (November 1984?): Women’s movement reactions to Reagan election

    Majority report, 1984. Clips of various members of the women’s movement responding to President Reagan’s re-election (none identified). Likely a production reel, not a complete episode of Majority Report.

  • Women’s sexual writing / produced by Jana Harris and Alan Soldofsky.

    Jana Harris discusses women’s sexual writing with Carol Bergé, editor of Center Magazine and author of Acts of Love and Poems Made of Skin, and Lenore Kandel, poet, author of The Love Book and Word Alchemy. Topics covered are the differences between the erotic and the pornographic, how large and small presses deal with sensitive…

  • Women and nature / produced by Alan Soldofsky.

    Poet and feminist Susan Griffin reads from her book of prose, “Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her” (Harper & Row, 1978). Griffin reads the sections Prologue, Gravity, The garden, Consequences (What always returns), The lion in the den of the prophets, Vision, and Erosion. The reading was recorded in November 1978 at Cody’s Books…

  • Majority report, November 1981: Farming women

    A report on women farmers in California. With the increase of mechanization and the decreasing availability of farmland and farming jobs, rural women have begun to find employment in nearby towns instead of on farms, but many women still tend the land and manage agricultural operations on small farms. Includes interviews with Jeannie Fletcher, a…

  • Majority report, January 21, 1982

    Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for January 21, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Berson talks with Chris Carroll, station manager of WRFG in Atlanta, Georgia, and chairman of the Women’s Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) about women in public broadcasting — 3. Paci Hammond…

  • Majority report, February 18, 1982: Shirley Chisholm and Maya Angelou #1

    Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for February 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A report by NPR’s Jo Ann Allen on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), who the week before had announced her retirement from politics, followed by an interview with Chisholm — 3. The first part of a three-segment…

  • Majority report, May 6, 1982: Judy Chicago, San Francisco Women’s Building, Merle Woo

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 6, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Artist Judy Chicago talks about The Birth Project, her follow-up to The Dinner Party, with KPFA’s Toni Gray; also includes interviews with some of the participants in the project — 3. A celebration of the third anniversary…

  • Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother’s Day March, Studio W

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play “A Raisin in the Sun” and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace…

  • The Graduate on location / interviews by Claire Clouzot (Part 1 of 2)

    Mike Nichols takes time between scenes and during lunch to talk with Claire Clouzot about The Graduate, his second film. The final scenes were being shot on location in Berkeley, California in 1967, and in the background of the interview, recorded at the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house, are sounds of set construction, luncheon trays,…

  • The Graduate on location / interviews by Claire Clouzot (Part 2 of 2)

    Claire Clouzot caught several members of the cast and production of Mike Nichols’ new film while they were chasing busses and visiting shops along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. On this program you will hear Miss Clouzot talking with producer Lawrence Turman, leading stars Katharine Ross and Dustin Hoffman, and sound man Jack Solomon (1913-2002).