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A Night of Women Musicians at WBAI's Free Music Store, date unknown (ca. 1973). Host is Ms. Mark Giles. Part one features first the New Woman's Brass Quartet, which includes Lauren Draper, Laurie Frank, Ann Slayton[sp?] and Kathy Kerry. They are followed by a performance by singer/songwriter Roz Esposito. Part two includes performances by Sharon Stone and Zenobia (from the show "Hair"), however Pacifica only has Part one. Previously numbered IZ1461.03A.

This series documents the Conference for a New Jewish Agenda for the '80s, held at the 4-H building in Washington, D.C., Dec. 24-28, 1980. Although the purpose of the conference was to establish a new national Jewish organization, the speeches and discussion contained herein were of interest to a broader audience. Topics include the political situation of the day, the Left, the rise of the new Right, the family, gays. The program, a mix of speeches, panels, music, and continuity, was written and produced by Anita Frankel for Pacifica Radio. Part one includes speeches by Denise Horton, conference chairperson and DC-area psychologist who delivers the opening plenary remarks; Rabbi Gerald Serotta, Hillel rabbi, associate director of Hillel at Rutgers University and chairperson of the Agenda Steering Committee; Marian Henriquez Neudel, attorney from Chicago and member of Chutzpah, an early attempt to organize a progressive alternative in the Jewish community; Jack Jacobs, a lecturer in political science at Columbia University and member of the Jewish Socialist Youth Bund; and comments from a panel on "The Rise of the New Right" by Michael Berenbaum, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Washington, D.C. and associate director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust; Ellen Willis, a columnist for the Village Voice; and Bertram Gross, author of "Friendly fascism: the face of new power in America." Part two includes Aviva Cantor, editor of Lilith, a Jewish feminist magazine; Michael Lerner, therapist at the Institute for Labor and Mental Health; Ellen Willis, a writer for the Village Voice; and gay men and women (none identified) interviewed at the end of the conference. Part three includes a panel on Jewish progressives and their relationship to non-Jewish progressives, which featured Paul Buehl, editor of Radical America magazine; Stanley Aronowitz, political scientist, professor at Columbia University and UC Irvine and former labor leader and activist; and David McReynolds, chairperson of the Socialist Party USA. Executive Producer for the series was Helene Rosenbluth.

Women professors frequently number only one or two in college department. Tonight, four women Ph.D's from local colleges and universities discuss their feelings and experiences as they cope with their minority status in male-dominated college faculties. Panelists are Marie Louise Gollner, BA from Vassar, Fulbright to Germany, teaches music history at UCLA; Nathalie Babel, from Paris, taught at Barnard College in New York, M.A. in Slavic Studies and PhD in Comparative literature at Columbia, teaching French and Russian literature at UCSD; Joan Hodgman, director of the Newborn Service at the Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of medicine, resident training in pediatrics at Los Angeles County Hospital, interned in pediatrics at UC hospital in San Francisco, where she got her MD degree, B.A. in Biology from Stanford; and Isabel Navarre, teaching at California State College Dominguez Hills in Psychology department, earned bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees at the University of Texas in Austin. Produced by Kathy Calkin and Rachel Kurn. Moderated by Clare Spark (nee Loeb).

An experimental radio production edited and narrated by Mitchell Harding, featuring two high school students at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA. The tape was a response to a speech by the Reverend David Noebel on "Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles: The Communist Use of Music." Several Beatles songs are sprinkled throughout, as well as excerpts of the Reverend's speech given in Walnut Creek, California.