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Science Fiction in the Nuclear Age

Airs at: Thu, 06/28/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  We welcome Oregon State University professor Elliot Lavine back to the KBOO studios to preview his new course at Cinema 21 on classic 1950's science fiction films and their intersection with Cold War politics. We're also joined by Portland filmmakers Maria Allred and Dam... Read more

Buscando America on 06/26/18

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
De plantones, ocupaciones y manifestaciones. ¿Quiénes son los benefiados de tanto centro de detención (migrant-shelter-business)? ¿Tanto en EEUU como en México? Escucha lo que sucede en ocuppyICE a una semana de plantón. Además hablamos con Claudia León, coordinadora de inc... Read more

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Ken Jones talks with David Naimon, co-author of the new book Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, from Portland’s Tin House Books. David’s book collects his KBOO Between the Covers interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin, the Portland-based master of science fiction,... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the first  Holy Crowley Hour of Summer 2018. While Carl Crowley and I should be wearing flip flops, shades, and a Speedo, and playing the Beach Boys all night, we'll instead be focusing on radio theater, as is our wont. And wearing a Speedo. Only a Speedo. Tonig... Read more

Our Voices Will Be Heard

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
    Warning: this play features dialogue about childhood sexual abuse and family violence. This program is not produced by KBOO. Our Voices Will Be Heard is a 59-min radio theater adaptation of a play written by Tlingit/Dena'ina Athabascan writer Vera Starbard and direct... Read more

Gamelan Wahyu Dari Langit Live in Studio

Airs at: Fri, 06/22/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 06/23/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
We are a 15 member ensemble of the ONLY Balinese Gamelan in the Pacific Northwest. We play a genre known at Baleganjer, used in ceremonies of cremation and battle songs. We have been playing in Portland for about a year. There is more information about us in the links below... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/29/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the first monthly Holy Crowley Hour. Formerly known as the Holy Crowley Hour, or Two. We’ll be on 12 times a year now, rather than four. And each show will be only one hour, rather than two. So you’ll be getting a little more of us and a little less. More or less... Read more

John Frame - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with artist and animator John Frame, we learn more about his design work for Charles Gounod's Faust, a co-production of Portland Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.  John talks about his fascination with the centuries-old characters of Doctor ... Read more

Vera Starbard + Our Voices

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features Alaska Native Playwright Vera Starbard and her play Our Voices Will Be Heard that was first produced at Perseverance Theatre and adapted into a radio play by Native Voice One. The play focuses on the journey of a mother and daughter and infuses Alaska Nativ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly, whose show Lee Kelly: Six Decades is on now at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery Peabody talks about how Portland legend Kelly, age 86, still does much of his own wor... Read more