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Bill Ayers & Ryan Alexander-Tanner - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/25/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  During the presidential campaign of 2008, Weather Underground co-founder and Distinguished Professor of Education Bill Ayers teamed up with cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner to adapt Bill's groundbreaking education textbook into comics form.  The result is To Teach: The J... Read more

The Monday Sampler presents Rebecca

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
A special radio drama today, with more music to help you through another locked down Monday afternoon. An encore presentation of Daphne Du Maurier 's Rebecca starring Ida Lupino, Ronald Colman and Judith Anderson. Read more

Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects,

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday June 23 at 11.30 a.m. Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects, a community project.  This DIY exhibition space is focused on local artists in the time of COVID-19. The current show "emBEINGbodies" includes Onyx And... Read more

 Songs of the People

Airs at: Tue, 09/22/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents Songs of the People:  Indigenous Roots of Black Folk Music is a 28-minute program hosted by Benjamin Mertz, a song leader in the Black Spiritual tradition.  The program will look at pre-20th Century Black music as a folk tradition, exploring its connections... Read more

Catching Up! Film at 11 on 26 June 2020

Airs at: Fri, 06/26/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week the team catches up with films new and old, including current political films such as Wasp Network and Mr. Jones, and older films such as Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, and the comedy A Thousand Clowns.  Read more

Juneteenth Special: a conversation with N.K. Jemisin

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2020 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Juneteenth Special
  N.K. Jemisin is the first black writer to win Science Fiction & Fantasy's most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award, for best novel.  And Jemisin is the first writer ever, in the history of the genre, to win the Hugo Award for best novel three consecutive times.  She has be... Read more

A Two Hour Special with National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2020 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Sorry about the sideways photos: it's a content management system thing. On Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland which then became a ... Read more

James Dixon: EDI and Beyond

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features James Dixon, actor, director, EDI consultant and activist who recently joined the Fuse Theatre Ensemble. James and Dmae have a frank discussion about how Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) can create a safer and more equitable creative environment while... Read more

The Sampler presents Sherlock Holmes and The Demon Barber

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with some 1920's Sweet Jazz, classic R & B and some surprises to help get through the day. Featured today is another episode from the long running radio drama series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce entitled The Adventure of The Demon Barber of Fle... Read more