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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 12, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The US war on peace:  Frann Michel hosts this episode which features these segments: Mask Up: Palestinian Solidarity and Covid-19 Mask Up! We Need You: Palestinian Solidarity, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Liberation by Rimona Eskayo and Sheyam Ghieth is "a primer for ... Read more

A World of Enemies

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Decades ago, the Wars on Drugs and Terror broke down the walls separating law enforcement from military operations. In   A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden,  Osamah Khalil  tells the story of how an America plagued by fears of wan... Read more

Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

Pickathon!

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Exploring the Music and the Delights that will be happening out on Pendarvis Farm, out in Happy Valley for this year's Pickathon!   What started as a fundraiser for KBOO back in 1999 has grown in to a world class one of a kind experience that mus... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 5, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Socialists and the Democrats: How should socialists relate to the Democratic Party in electoral seasons and quieter times? Bill Resnick debates with Peter Solenberger, who’s counseled ... Read more

Paper Cranes

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hiroshima Day is commemorated around the world annually in honor of survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki three days later on August 9th. This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear power as ... Read more

Killing Salmon to Lose Money

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on May 6, 2024   The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. An... Read more

Eddie Muller - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film pres... Read more

Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel from Portland’s Hawthorne Books. Sidney’s book is a fictionalized account of the life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became instrumental in ending slavery in the U.S., and who many... Read more

The Great River: The Making & Unmaking of the Mississippi

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For thousands of years Native peoples made their homes in the Mississippi watershed, that spans nearly half of what is now the United States. They respected the “great river” and lived peaceably alongside it. But when European settlers arrived they upended Native lives and ... Read more