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Growing up Undocumented

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 17, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Desiree Hellegers, this episode features segments on Teaching Palestine, Food Justice, Health and Trans Fiction: Teaching Palestine:  In their Introduction to Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, the editors begin by noting the silencing they routine... Read more

Putin's Russia - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 03/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As Vladimir Putin flexes his geopolitical muscles at the start of a second Trump term, we revisit our March 2022 conversation with British comics artist Darryl Cunningham, author of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. In this hour-long special, Darryl tracks the ... Read more

Teaching Palestine

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In their Introduction to Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, the editors begin by noting the silencing they routinely encounter: "Israel and Palestine is just too complicated to teach," both liberal and conservative commentators often caution. The book unfol... Read more

Let's Talk! Live on The 35th Cascade Festival of African Film ft. Brook Ramirez

Airs at: Fri, 03/07/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Let's Talk!
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Film Is Dead - Long Live Film - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this 50% longer conversation with documentarian and media studies professor Peter Flynn, we dive deeper into the world of amateur film collectors, whose avocation has made them outlaws to the major movie studios and heroes to lovers of analog cinema.  Peter's lates... Read more

Film Is Dead - Long Live Film

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Peter Flynn is a documentarian and professor of media studies whose films include The Dying of the Light, a profile of the last generation of career projectionists.  His latest project, Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! dives into the world of amateur film collectors, who... Read more

Karen Russell, author of The Antidote

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Karen Russell, author of the new novel The Antidote from Knopf. The Antidote is Karen’s sixth book of fiction, following the story collections Orange World, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, the no... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 24, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Desiree Hellegers and features these segments: The Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP): We feature an interview with MERP organizer Yolotli X speaking about their personal journey from street kid to urban farmer and about the work of this ... Read more

Democracy Under Siege

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center... Read more