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Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on May 12, 2025 While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries ... Read more

Remembering Dan Handelman (Part 2)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Remembering Dan Handelman: In the second of a two-part segment, Desiree Hellegers brings audio excepts from a June 28 memorial for Handelman at Clinton Street Theater. Dan died in April at age 60, following a stroke. Handelman's family and Portland activists for peac... Read more

Erin Entrada Kelly | AT LAST SHE STOOD: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, & Fought for Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Produced for:  Open Air
World War II spy, Filipino guerrilla fighter, war hero, Medal of Freedom recipient, leprosy survivor, teacher, peacemaker....The legendary and inspiring life and work of Josefina "Joey" Guerrero is introduced to readers by two-time Newbery Medal winner, National Book Awa... Read more

Carolyn Dasher launches her debut novel "American Sky"

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Carolyn Dasher, author of the new novel American Sky. The book tells the story of three generations of American women over the course of three wars – World Wars I and II, and Vietnam. The novel has its roots in Carolyn’s own childhood, growing... Read more

Donovan Scribes: Black Lives Matter Rertospective

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The guest is Donovan Scribes. He edited BlackOut, the recent Portland Mercury special edition looking at the Black Lives Matter Movement, five years later. In the process he helps define who we are at the current pivotal moment in society.  Read more

Rupert Kinnard's Cathartic Comics

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Rupert Kinnard has been drawing comics for fifty years, while nurturing his side gigs as a designer, art director, and community activist.  His characters The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé were the first queer African-American superheroes — long before DC and Ma... Read more

Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

More Jerry Lewis

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with an excerpt from a history of Comedy about how Jerry Lewis tried to become the King of Primetime Television but only ended up killing one of the greatest TV shows of all. Read more

Pride Month

Produced for:  The Underground
The Youth Collective talks Pride for our June episode. Queer History, Music, Culture and Activism are all topics of discussion, for a fun and informative episode. Read more

Makdisi Street: Podcasting for Palestine

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks to Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on the cultural and political history of the modern Middle East. They discuss Israel’s genocide and the Makdisi Street ... Read more