Fiction

Mimi Pond

Airs at: Thu, 01/22/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Mimi Pond is an author, humorist, and award-winning cartoonist who’s written for newspapers, magazines, and television shows such as Designing Women and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.  Her graphic novels include Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong, and most recently Do Admi... Read more

Radio Noir starring Edward G. Robinson and Jack Webb

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/20/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Featured tonight are Two Classic Radio Dramas. First aired in 1949, Edward G. Robinson stars in this episode of the CBS Radio series Suspence adapted from the film noir classic Night Has A Thousand Eyes.  The original story, by Cornell Woolrich, follows a young couple de... Read more

Cai Emmons' posthumous novel The Bells with her husband Paul Calandrino

Airs at: Thu, 01/22/2026 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Eugene-based writer Cai Emmons five times for KBOO, before she ended her life, through Oregon’s Death With Dignity program, in January 2023. Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS in early 2021, at the age of 70. It’s a debilitat... Read more

Gremlin Time

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/20/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
All Listeners need to be tucked into bed before tuning in. Read more

Book Mole: Low April Sun

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists that killed 168 people. The novel Low April Sun by Constance E. Squires, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, is set against that atrocity and show... Read more

Beginnings 2026

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
This is our first show of the new year, and I’d like to ring in 2026 doing something I started for our first show in 2025. It’s an audio retrospective of last year’s interviews on Jonesy. Which I call Beginnings, for the beginning of the new year and the fact we’re playi... Read more

Interview with Author Jaime Ford

Airs at: Thu, 01/15/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Tune in to Between the Covers on Thursday, January 15th, for an interview with New York Times best-selling author Jamie Ford. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, explores a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the internment of Japane... Read more

Judith Arcana, 1943-2025, a Lifelong Troublemaker

The left community lost one of its stalwarts on winter solstice of 2025. Judith Arcana was a writer, poet, teacher and feminist activist. She is most well known for being one of the Janes, a pre-Roe, underground collective in Chicago that provided 11,000 illegal, but saf... Read more

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 12/25/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Over half a century ago, the UPA animation studio was a haven for misfit geniuses struggling to create relevant cartoon films in the face of political and cultural repression.  Gambling the future of the company on an hourlong television special featuring their most p... Read more

The Underground Presents A Christmas Carol

Airs at: Wed, 12/24/2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
KBOO's Youth Collective puts on a radio play version of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" featuring Nick, Elizabeth, Clem, Viv, Clementine, Lola, Suzanne, Grady, Olivia, Jude E., and Jude W. This version was written by Anthony E. Palermo, an award-winning radio perfo... Read more