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Radio Lost and Found

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 10:00pm - Fri, 04/29/2016 at 12:00am
Tonight, we'll pay tribute to the recently departed Negativland member Richard Lyons (Pastor Dick, Dick Vaughn, Dick Goodbody, et al). I'll also have other surprises in store. Hope you can tune in! Read more

Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin

Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, is an evangelical Christian with a social conscience. He speaks and writes about ethics and public policy. His latest book is called America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to A New America. He has bee... Read more

Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story ... Read more

Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story ... Read more

Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story ... Read more

Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story ... Read more

Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story ... Read more

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir by Rob Spillman

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Rob Spillman, the award-win... Read more

Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting... Read more

Ways To Disappear by Idra Novey

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyf... Read more