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Vanishing by Cai Emmons

Airs at: Thu, 06/11/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Cai Emmons, author of the new story collection Vanishing, from Leapfrog Press. Cai’s a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, whose previous novels include Weather Woman, The Stylist, and His Mother’s Son, which won an Oregon Book award for... Read more

World War Z

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Victoria Saucedo review the 2013 apocalyptic zombie movie, World War Z, and the book by Max Brooks, of the same name, that it was based on. The one is a work of well researched and well written fiction which presents a serious sociopolitical in... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, which includes these segments: Pandemic Recovery, or Not: Bill Resnick speaks with Yeva Nersisyan, a progressive economist, in part 2 of a two part interview on the COVID crisis. In the first part th... Read more

Quarantining with Sound Artists and Dungeons and Dragons

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  This Friday Night/Saturday Morning, May 30th from 12-3am Threshold Shift has another long-form radio adventure featuring new in-quarantine recordings and compositions from old favorites, Slavek Kwi from Ireland, Benoit Bories from France, and Dr. Jacob Job from Colorado.... Read more

The Quarantine Episode

Airs at: Sat, 05/30/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
We'll be broadcasting slices of life created in quarantine and lockdowns from around the US, Ireland and France. Broadcaster's Note: The original mission statement for this show was to broadcast audio that is focused on the environment and nature in hopes of highlighting a... Read more

Remembering Animator Bruce Bickford - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  For half a century, Bruce Bickford ran a one-man clay animation production house, constructing surreal miniature worlds in a cavernous Seattle studio and bringing them to life through the magic of stop-motion.  Bickford gained notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind ... Read more

Late in the Day

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Late in the Day, a 2019 novel by Tessa Hadley, a throwback to the domestic tales of Elizabeth Bowen and Edith Wharton and so many other women authors, explores in detail the inner lives of four people who live in an intimate dance of love and... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Murder In Wax

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Monday Sampler presents, in our second hour, another Sherlock Holmes Adventure starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, from their long running radio series. London is rocked by a series of murders of young women in Hamsted Heath. Called in to assist the investigation, ... Read more

Hurricane Season

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Brutal, relentless, beautiful, fugal, Hurricane Season explores the violent mythologies of one Mexican village and reveals how they touch the global circuitry of capitalist greed. This is an inquiry into the sexual terrorism and terror of broken men. This is a work o... Read more

The Night Run of the Overland

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/19/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
From the Golden Age of Railroad Fiction comes tonight's story "The Night Run Of The Overland" by Elmore Elliot Peake. With steam train engineer Fox laid up with a fever, it falls to his wife Sylvia, who has assited him on many trips in the cabin of the Overland Express, to... Read more