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Unidentified interviewer talks with Larry Atterbury of KTTV Channel 11 Television in Los Angeles and Jim Barnes, who has performed a before-and-after psychological stress test on the voice of Patty Hearst based on two communiqués from the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Barnes used a machine called the Psychological Stress Evaluator which measures the amount of stress in various phrases and words, to see if there was any difference in Patty Hearst's voice between the first SLA tape and the last.

In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant, and a poem titled "Inside the Church of the People" by an anonymous poet. Black liberation and its relationship to white women's liberation, and the Black family are discussed. The music is by Billie Holliday and Roberta Flack. BC0633 is a duplicate of this program.

The half-hour serial reading program “Continued tomorrow” featured “Other people’s houses” by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler’s Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete. After concluding her reading, Segal interviews her mother Franzi Groszmann, who is also a character in the novel, on the last reel.

This is the same tape as BB3770.02, broadcast as the second episode of the WBAI produced Abortion (1969) series.  James Clapp and Lucinda Cisler, members of the Abortion Committee of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, host the program. Their guest in-studio is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell Medical School, associate attending obstetrician and gynecologist at New York Hospital and at St. Luke's Hospital, and Director of gynecology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. They begin by asking Dr. Nathanson for the definition of an abortion, to which he provides detailed and step-by-step descriptions of different types of abortions and how they are performed. They also discuss the risks and costs, and the results of illegal abortions as seen in hospitals. There is also discussion of the implications for doctors and hospitals as a result of the increasing pressure to reform or repeal present abortion laws. At 00:36:20 the hosts play a previously recorded interview with retired abortionist, Dr. W. J. Bryan Henrie of Grove, Oklahoma. This series of five programs on abortion was produced by Kay Lindsey. Originally cataloged as having guests Susan Brownmiller, Jean Blair Billie, and William Baird.