In 2019 we celebrated International Women’s Day by recording a fascinating interview about women’s radio history with University of Louisville Professor of History Christine Ehrick.

Author of Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950, Ehrick schools us on the hidden history of a pioneering women’s radio station in Uruguay. Founded in 1935, Radio Femenina quickly became a hotbed for feminist and activist programming, beaming its signal from Montevideo and across the river into Argentina. Ehrick provides context for the station’s origins and discusses how it functioned during some tumultuous political periods in the region.

Our Patreon supporters get to hear more of our conversation with Ehrick in a special bonus episode. She shares more personal stories of a radio historian on the hunt for treasure in the official archives and on Ebay.

This episode originally aired in March of 2019 as #184.

• Christine Ehrick website at University of Louisville
• Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950
• Radio Preservation Task Force
• Radio Femenina Wikipedia Entry
• Investigating some Contenders for the Oldest Women’s College Radio Station (Radio Survivor)
• Podcast #132 – Sounding out on the Cultural Politics of Sound & Listening (Jenny Stoever interview)
• Podcast #135 – Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History (Jennifer Wang interview)
• Podcast #178 – Irish Pirate Radio Archive
• Podcast #134 – The KRAB-FM Archives
• Podcast #158 – Surveying Community Radio’s Deep Archives (Laura Schnitker interview)
• Podcast #176 – Audio Fiction’s Very Long History of Innovation (Neil Verma interview)

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