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  KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS RECRUITING Do you love KBOO Community Radio and its mission? Apply to join the Board of Directors! The Board of Directors of The KBOO Foundation governs the station: safeguarding its financial health, shaping its future, re... Read more

Radio Ahead Special Programming

  Chart a course for engaging radio in our “Radio Ahead” special programming season! Choose your own adventure amongst our plethora of specials ranging from enlightening interviews, to compelling talk radio, to dynamic music of all genres.  KBOO’s DJs are bringing you ... Read more

Swing 'n' Country

Airs at: Sat, 04/04/2026 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Swing 'n' Country
  Spring has Sprung!  Sweet, beautiful country music, Baseball and Love are ON the air this Saturday starting at 6:00 a.m., during the three-hour broadcast of Swing ’n’ Country on KBOO-FM. First Saturday hosts Graham and Robert Parish cover all the bases, beginning wi... Read more

Parsing Sound: Episode 59 - In Bloom

Airs at: Sat, 04/04/2026 at 10:00pm - Sun, 04/05/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for Parsing Sound
On this episode the parsing sound crew steps into the heart of April, exploring the season’s defining themes of Growth and Renewal.    Read more

We Choose To Be More Than Our Diagnoses

Airs at: Sun, 04/05/2026 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for Pathways
Jerry Ryan is a life coach, psychotherapist and best-selling author of Living Less Stressed, and he is one of the authors of the new book We Choose To Be More Than Our Diagnoses.  HOST Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness expert, fo... Read more

Planting potted plants, interpreting soil tests, thinning veggies, and growing cherry tomatoes

Airs at: Wed, 04/08/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are in the KBOO studio for a live April show. It didn't happen last month, but we hope to have an expert join us to help analyze and make sense of soil tests. And a primer on the proper way to plant a potted plant. Also, we off... Read more

Rise When the Rooster Crows

Airs at: Thu, 04/09/2026 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Today's show is the first of three shows with songs and tune titles containing animal names. Read more

Andy Warner in Beirut - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/09/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Andy Warner is an artist and writer of non-fiction comics, and an editor for international cartoon platform The Nib.  His books include Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, This Land Is My Land, and Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolution. Spri... Read more

Gimme an F! Celebrating the life and Music of Country Joe McDonald on the SongCircle

Airs at: Fri, 04/10/2026 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Produced for The Songcircle
Phil G here In the time of this unjust military incursion, we lost one of the great Anti-War Activists last month, Country Joe McDonald. I'll be paying tribute to this tireless activist; whether it was support of Veterans, Environmental issues, Feminism, Unions, Nurses, ... Read more

Data Centers - Scourge and Organizing Opportunity

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2026 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on February 23, 2026   As data centers continue to pop up like noxious weeds, a growing movement is coming together to stop their spread. Like oil and gas pipelines before them, data centers are uniting people of diverse backgrounds and p... Read more

David Hockney at PAM

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia Dolan of the Portland Art Museum about “David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation”.    Curator Dolan talks about how Hockney emerged from Swinging... Read more

Liz Prato, author of Purgatoire: a novel in stories

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2026 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, our guest is Liz Prato, author of the new book Purgatoire: a novel in stories from Forest Avenue Press. Liz and I last talked on Jonesy four years ago, for her essay collection Kids in America: a Gen X Reckoning. Her work also includes Volcanoes, Palm... Read more

KBOO's Community Resource Directory

  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more