Episodios

  • Minibabble: On the Set with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin

    Minibabble: On the Set with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin
    Jan 29 2026
    What does it take for an independent filmmaker to shoot a film in a country that lacks a functional government? Haitian filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin speaks about the difficulty of shooting her short film, N Ap Boule, which is a fictional exploration of the crisis of maternity care in Haiti.
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    11 m
  • Taking Care of Ourselves with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin

    Taking Care of Ourselves with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin
    Jan 21 2026
    Haitian filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin is on a mission to make films that tell important stories for her people. But how can she help a country where she can no longer live?
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    57 m
  • The Chicago Connection: Black composers of the early 20th century

    The Chicago Connection: Black composers of the early 20th century
    Dec 27 2025
    Early in the 20th century, in which has been named the Great Migration, millions of Black southerners moved North, looking for opportunity and an escape from Jim Crow. The vibrant....
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    11 m
  • Not Forgotten Anymore: The African American Composer Initiative

    Not Forgotten Anymore: The African American Composer Initiative
    Dec 16 2025
    Sometimes all it takes is one question to spur a revelation that inspires a movement. The African American Composer Initiative started with a question and has become a thriving nonprofit, discovering, performing, and recording underappreciated concert music by Black composers.
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Minibabble: Blessed relief – two stories of birth

    Minibabble: Blessed relief – two stories of birth
    Dec 3 2025
    Interviewing a doula about natural childbirth was an intensely personal experience for Babblery host Suki Wessling. She’d planned on natural birth—twice. But the American system of birth isn’t set up....
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    15 m
  • Minibabble: The way of the doula

    Minibabble: The way of the doula
    Dec 2 2025
    In praise of natural birth In this mini version of the full episode, “Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen,” we focus on doula Anne Wallen’s trust in the....
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    13 m
  • Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen

    Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen
    Nov 19 2025
    Anne Wallen now trains women in the art of the doula. How a teen mom evolved into a proponent of natural childbirth is a quietly stunning American love story.
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment

    Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment
    Nov 6 2025
    From Babblery host, Suki Wessling:  On my radio show, the Babblery, I talk to women of all ages and backgrounds about their work and life experiences and how those experiences....
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    10 m