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Chasing Me to My Grave

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
On a day celebrating Martin Luther King, writer and photographer Matt Witt reviews a memoir by another African American from Georgia who also had a day named after him. The memoir is called Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert. Growing up in rural Georgia, Rembert near... Read more

No Man Of Her Own starring Barbara Stanwyck

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/17/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train, which crashes on the  way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in the accident. The Harkness Family, having never ... Read more

Lynn Steger Strong, author of Flight

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want, graces Between the Covers with an interview on her new novel Flight, a poignant inquiry on social class, love, and family.   Lily King calls Flight "arresting and powerful". Read more

Bill Plympton's Analog Animation

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

Our last conversation with Cai Emmons

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for Jonesy
Today’s episode is a sad one for me. It’s the last interview with one of my favorite authors and guests – Cai Emmons. I first met Cai in October 2018 when she came to the KBOO studios for a live, in-person interview on her novel Weather Woman. Due to the pandemic, our subs... Read more

Not Your Regularly Scheduled Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Unfortunate production problems has postponed the return of Jack Webb for this week's show. Will be re airing a program from January of 2021 which features a episode of the Superman radio show from the mid 1940's. And lots of music.    Read more

Willamette Radio Workshop presents "A Radio Christmas Carol"

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Jonesy
It’s Thursday, December 22nd, just two eves away from Christmas Eve, and we’ve been in somewhat of a quandary as to how to celebrate on today’s show. I think the classic story for this time of year is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, first published on December 19th 1843... Read more

Talking Earth: Book Stab 1

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Talking Earth
Tonight's edition of Talking Earth is the inaugural edition of Book Stab, where host Patrick Bocarde discusses the merits and mostly demerits of novels and poetry with guests.  Tonight's guest is Ceylon Anderson.  Mr Anderson was co-producer and co-writer of The Worriers, a... Read more

The Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R. Tolkien

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/20/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Once again we present Katherine Dunn reading excerpts from The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien. From the mid 1920s to the start of World War 2 Proffessor Tolkien would write letters as Santa Claus for his children would find on Christmas morning. Over the years t... Read more

Writing the Interior Life

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Sue Miller is a novelist of the interior life, especially of relationships and what drives them. Novels of ideas and feelings rather than of dramatic events. Often harshly self-judging, there is such emotional honesty in her novels that they sizzle and burn. In this tribute... Read more