Happy International Women’s Day! Every day I’m inspired by my female colleagues around the world who are passionate about radio, sound, and audio. From college radio DJs to sound studies scholars to radio historians to engineers to station owners to high school podcasters to teachers and station advisers; it’s a community that enriches our lives so much. In honor of today and of Women’s History Month, I wanted to share some of my favorite Radio Survivor podcast episodes and stories related to women’s contributions to radio and sound:
- Podcast #287: Women’s History Month segment about a new podcast featuring Ladybird Johnson’s audio diaries
- Podcast #184: Hidden Women’s Radio History in Uruguay – I’m excited that this interview with scholar Christine Ehrick is also aired on the radio today during Xray.fm’s Amplify Women broadcast celebrating International Women’s Day.
- Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History – I love this episode in which scholar Jennifer Hyland Wang shares with us some of the hidden history related to the early days of podcasting and how women played a big part in some of the first podcasts.
- Investigating Some Contenders for the Oldest Women’s College Radio Station – Women were participating in college radio from the very beginning, so it’s especially interesting to take a look at radio at women’s colleges.
- Podcast #132: Sounding Out! on the Cultural Politics of Sound and Listening
- Exploring Second Wave Feminist Radio at the Pacifica Radio Archives
- Podcast #250: Aimee Semple McPherson and the Early History of Radio Evangelists
