In last week's episode of Art Focus about TBA, not everyone who was planned to appear got covered. So next week (on September 8th) I will have Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Oregon Painting Society on. Guests include: Woolly Mammoth--Rikki Rothenberg and Kathleen Keogh and Oregon Painting Society--Matt Carlson, Jason Traeger and Liam Drain.

Do pharmaceutical companies control the social definition of normal? Can advertising and public relations campaigns turn acceptable personality differences into unacceptable disorders? Christopher Lane discusses his book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness.

Curtis Edward McCarty was convicted and sentenced to death twice for a 1982 murder in Oklahoma City. After repeated court battles and 21 years in prison - 19 on death row - McCarty was exonerated and released following a 2005 appeals court ruling based on new DNA evidence and findings of a "continued pattern of government misconduct." McCarty was the 124th person in the United States to be exonerated and released since 1973 after spending time on death row.

This week, Jo Ann and Dave talk with McCarty about his experience and his struggle to win his freedom.

We'll have history, poetry, music, and commentary. We’ll feature interviews with labor journalist David Bacon, documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, and Leo Robinson, the man who led the boycott of cargo from apartheid South Africa by west coast dockworkers back in the 1980s.

Today is Labor Day!

Tune in from 8 until 11 AM, as KBOO's Labor Radio Collective and the Old Mole Variety Hour join forces for three hours of special programming about the lives and struggles of the women and men who do the work.
 

 Call-in and share stories about your own job on Labor Day Talk Radio.