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Tom Cramer and Jeff Jahn discuss architecture

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Tom Cramer guest hosts, bringing on Jeff Jahn to give us "The Architecture Show." (Photo of Bud Clark Commons by Jeff Jahn) http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/06/resouce_access.html CD-2178 Read more

Steve Earle's Novel "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"

Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2011 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T... Read more

Radiozine on 05/27/11

Airs at: Fri, 05/27/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Ed Goldberg interviews writer Camilla Lackberg, author of “The Ice Princess,” a murder mystery set in a small town in Sweden. CD-2149 Read more

Between the Covers on 04/14/11

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with fiction writer Peter Mountford about his new novel "A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism," which tells the story of Gabriel de Boya, a recent college graduate who works for an unscrupulous hedge fund while pretending to be a freelance j... Read more

Mystery writer Rhys Bowen talks about her novel "Royal Flush"

Airs at: Wed, 04/06/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Ed Goldberg interviews Rhys Bowen author of "Royal Flush", a mystery set in a Scottish castle with Lady Georgiana Rannoch in her third madcap adventure. Humor and history combine in this novel that also includes a group of demanding Americans, ghosts, haggis, a monster in t... Read more

Mystery writer Lisa Gardner on her new novel "Love You More"

Airs at: Thu, 03/31/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ed Goldberg interviews mystery suspense author Lisa Gardner about her new novel Love You More. In Love You More the crime appears open-and-shut: Pushed to the brink by an abusive husband, state police trooper Tessa Leoni finally snapped and shot him in self-defense. Bu... Read more

Gemma Whelan talks about her novel "Fiona: Stolen Child"

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
In the novel Fiona Clarke, an Irish writer living in New York, has been running away from her past since she left rural Cregora, Ireland, for boarding school. That past finds her, many years later, when her thinly veiled autobiographical novel is optioned for a movie. Worki... Read more

Celebrating St Patrick's with music by The Chancers

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Free Ireland
A special public affairs show of Radio Free Ireland with Maura Cullen. Per Fagereng co-hosts.  Irish musicians with the band "The Chancers,"  Paddy Schutte, John O'connell, Sean Connolly, Michaela McCafferty, are in the studio to celebrate St. Patrick's Day by playing a few... Read more

Painter Henk Pander on His Life and Work

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Guest host Tom Cramer interviews artist Henk Pander about his life and work. The Hallie Ford Museum of Art opened a major exhibition of the art of Henk Pander on January 29, 2011. It surveys the range of Pander’s oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, posters, and theatrical... Read more

Secret Asian Woman

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and mixed race  produced by Dmae Roberts. Throughout her life especially living in Oregon, Dmae has had to bring up her ethnicity especially when it comes to the question: "What Are You?"  This piece was or... Read more