Host Dmae Roberts speaks with Allan Nause of Artists Repertory Theatre about their production of "Distracted" by Lisa Loomer. Also on the show, members of "A Sunbeam," currently at Passin Art Theatre at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.

4/9: Host Ed Goldberg interviews Jayne Anne Phillips, author of "Lark and Termite, a novel of a sad death and a magical child in a West Virginia family. Jayne Anne Phillips was born and raised in West Virginia. Her first book of stories, Black Tickets, published in 1979 when she was 26, won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Jayne Anne Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Her work has appeared most recently in Harper's, Granta, Doubletake, and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She has taught at Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University, and is currently Professor of English and Director of a new MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

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Anthony Thomas Schatz is the product of Sacramento pop and rock, notably for the rock band, Birthday, that enjoyed time in London while recording an album for Warner Bros. Records, only to disband due to inner frustrations. Tony would not be a label puppet.

Harriet and Marge host another installment of House Holding, or Homemaking Gone Progressive. They see a new way of considering our roles as stewards, not just as it applies in the world at large, but in the concrete management of resources as they flow from the natural world to our homes, kitchens, tables and community. Join them for a discussion of house holding as a form as activism. Today's topic is "Getting Ready For Your Preserving Season."