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Sherlock Holmes Returns

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns with lots of music and another adventure of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone as the Great Detective and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson. Today's story is set on a stormy  October day in 1887 as Holmes faces the puzzle of the Camberwell Poisoning. This sto... Read more

Film Noir with Elliot Lavine - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with film programmer Elliot Lavine, we take an even deeper dive into mid-century movie history. For the past forty years, Elliot has been introducing audiences to vintage cinema, first in San Francisco and now in Portland.  His regular Fil... Read more

Trilce: Volumen Uno; Abril; Grupo Neblina: ¡Basta Ya!

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 02/25/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
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Film Noir with Elliot Lavine

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Film programmer Elliot Lavine has been introducing audiences to vintage cinema for decades, first in San Francisco and now in Portland.  His regular Film Noir festival I Wake Up Dreaming is a popular event, as are his theme screenings of subversive science fiction and Co... Read more

Cecil Taylor: Live in Nice, July 29, 1969

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
3-LP set. The album was originally released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght on the French Shandar label as a box set, as three separate LPs in 1971.[3] It features a performance by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers and Andrew Cyrille, recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nic... Read more

Taravat Talepasand

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews artist and Portland State University art professor Taravat Talepasand (PRONOUNCED TA-ra-vat TOL-a-pas-AND) about her career review show called TARAVAT, and the controversy it caused when some Muslim stu... Read more

Gemma Whelan, author of Painting Through the Dark

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Gemma Whelan, author of the new novel Painting Through the Dark, from Portland’s Shangana Press. Gemma’s an award-winning director, screenwriter, and teacher. She was the founding Artistic Director of Wilde Irish Productions in the Bay Area... Read more

Strangers On A Train

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/21/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, The Lux Radio Theater's production of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train (1951).  Adapted from the novel by Patrica Highsmith. Ray Milland stars as tennis star Guy Haines, who meets Bruno Anthony, played by Frank Lovejoy, while on a train ride. Though guy t... Read more

Special Membership Drive Pet Appreciation Show

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
The Sampler returns for our Winter Membership Drive  Pet Apprecation Show. KBOO's Public Affairs Director Ender Black will be joining us with a pocket full of dog treats and a couple of catnip mouses. Also, lots of music and Katherine Dunn reading "The Dog Who Bit People... Read more

Some old and new as we revisit masterpieces on Film at 11 for Friday 24 Feb., 2023

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week, Jeff Godsil revisits David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers, while in our book corner, we look at two brand new single volume examinations of Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 Vertigo, recently re-rated by Sight and Sound magazine as the second greatest ... Read more