Host Ed Goldberg interviews writer Mary Doria Russell, author of Dreamers of the Day, a historical novel of a midwestern woman present at the birth of the modern Middle East. 

Sounds Unsound goes back to 40 years ago as we listen to music rocorded or released in 1968. Psychedelic rock, free jazz, electro-acoustic new music and more....

Linda Olson Osterlund hosts From Turbin to Hajab. Three Portland area women talk about their lives wearing head coverings, why they wear them, their spiritual meanings and the role that fashion plays in their selection.

Bill Resnick explores rising food prices and world hunger and what the UN and the major countries are (not) doing.
He also looks at climate change and Congress with a critique of
the very inadequate, indeed, counterproductive response. The bill being discussed subsidizes nuclear energy. Luz Maria Gordillo reviews Sex and the City, the movie. Frann Michel hosts a segment of the Well-Read Red on solidarities between LGBTQ and immigrant activism.  And we'll hear more music by Pink Martini and an exploration of their politics.

S.W. Conser interviews Jeff Gordinier, whose new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking, offers a slyly acerbic, but ultimately hopeful overview of the contemporary generation gap.