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Mr. Jones's Neighborhood - Beth Kephart

Airs at: Fri, 05/28/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On today's show, we celebrate Father's Day, a bit early, by talking fathers -- and daughters and sons and husbands and wives and our own multiple identities -- with Beth Kephart, author of the new memoir Wife/Daughter/Self, from Portland’s own Forest Avenue Press. In the bo... Read more

Oregon Film - History and Future

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest goes back well over a century, and the movies made in Oregon tend to be more experimental and quirky than the typical Hollywood fare.  Meanwhile, audiences in Oregon tend to be more supportive of their theaters than their counterparts ... Read more

Oregon Film - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation about filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest, we spend an extra 20 minutes with three local activists who have worked for years to boost the independent film production and exhibition scene in Oregon. Tim Williams is the Executive Director of ... Read more

Conversation with Caroline Cory

Airs at: Fri, 05/28/2021 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Join Ender Black on an exclusive conversation with filmmaker, researcher and author, Caroline Cory. -- Her films E.T. Contact: They are Here (2017), Among Us (2019) and Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible (2020) have become staples in the field of consciousness. -- Autho... Read more

Original Lost Hour Soundtrack.

Airs at: Sat, 05/29/2021 at 10:00pm - Sun, 05/30/2021 at 12:00am
The Last Hour has been approved by The Boo Program director!  as a “pop up program” ! That means as much quality mixing that I can get away with will be aired!! But your ears never spared.  This first program is an onslaught of non stop electronic madness, softness, sadness,... Read more

Fim at 11 returns to the homeland this week, on 11 June 2021

Airs at: Fri, 06/11/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week Britta Gordon  discusses Ulrike Ottinger's new essay documentary Paris Caligramees, while Jeff Godsil reports on the 1932  Scarface, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time  looks at the 2014 film from Mali, Timbuktu written and directed by Abderahmane Sissako. And, in the... Read more

A Frenzy of Film, this week on Film at 11, June 4, 2021

Airs at: Fri, 06/04/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week Jeff Godsil discusses Alfred Htchcock's controversial  Frenzy. We also look at two new biographies,  Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman (Simon and Schuster), and Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy (Oxford), the new DVD of Nig... Read more

Buscando America on 05/25/21

Airs at: Tue, 05/25/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa escucharás una conversación con Betto Arcos Periodista radial, DJ, profesor y promotor musical basado en Los Ángeles. Desde 2008, es un colaborador habitual de NPR y la BBC. Hablamos sobre su más reciente libro Historias musicales del Barrio Cósmico / Music... Read more

The Last Hour

The Last Hour can pop up anytime, and you'll never really see the last hour coming at you until it just plain rocks your socks off. Now you are lying safely in bed and you say. "Hmm. It was an ok day today, and it was a long one so I'll just lay down here and check out the ... Read more

Music For An Easy Monday Afternoon

Airs at: Mon, 05/24/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato is taking it easy on his back patio while presenting another music filled Monday Sampler Read more