Women

Orange Revisited

Airs at: Mon, 06/29/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

With the release of the third season of "Orange Is the New Black," Densise Morris reviews some commentary about what the show gets right and wrong -- in particular about "compassionate release". (Photo: Orange Is the New Black/Youtube) Read more

Theory & Practice

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tod Sloan talks with Lara Messersmith-Glavin of the Institute for Anarchist Studies about theory and practice. They consider how theory helps illuminate individually lived experiences as part of larger systems, while also stressing the priority of lived experience in genera... Read more

Book Mole: "Intrusions", by Ursula Hegi

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ursula Hegi's "Intrustions", a novel within a novel that confronts the writer's conflicted as a mother and artist. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts! We hear music from Blind Boy Paxon and Blue Scholars! The show includes... Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by ... Read more

Richard Rothstein Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in the US. His latest piece for the EPI, focuses on the complicity of the Federal government in c... Read more

Molly Brown on her book "Coming Back to Life," co-authored with Joanna Macy

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Join Lyn and Ani for a discussion with Molly Brown, teacher, life coach, and author. Her latest book is called Coming Back To Life, and was co-written with Joanna Macy. Coming Back to Life is an updated guide that to The Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy's critically import... Read more

How to Lose Your Virginity?

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Bread and Roses

This is a Bread and Roses web exclusive. Delphine Criscenzo speaks with Therese Shechter, the producer of the new documentary “How to Lose Your Virginity? What if all we had to lose were our virginity myths?” A local organization, A Fourth Act is bringing the film to Portla... Read more

Alice Eve Cohen Interview

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Author Alice Eve Cohen has told two stories of personal upheaval that have visited her family in the last six years; "What I Thought I Knew" in 2009, and her most recent memoir, "The Year My Mother Came Back". She talks with Don Merrill about what those two different stori... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 4, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Old Mole and here is what's on offer: 1. Dave Finkel and Bill Resnick discuss the latest US moves in the middle east. 2. Book Mole Larry Bowlde reviews Fay Weldon's dystopian novel Chalcot Crescent. 3. The Left and the Law: Medica... Read more

Book Review: "Chalcot Crescent"

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Larrry Bowlden reviews Fay Weldon's 2010 novel, Chalcot Crescent,; it describes a dystopian possible future of capitalism. The books is partly prophetic, partly cynical satire, and partly a kind of memoir. Although still obviously a feminist author, she pokes fun at many of... Read more