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Northwest Documentaries

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Seattle-based documentarian John de Graaf came to prominence with the film and book series Affluenza, a critique of the consumerism and materialism that plagues American communities and the global environment.  He’s now the Executive Director of Take Back Your Time and c... Read more

Andrew Meier, author of Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2023 at 10:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
We have a very special episode of Jonesy for you today, so special in fact, we needed an extra hour, 90 minutes in total, to get it all in. Our guest is Andrew Meier, author of the new multi-generational biography Morgenthau: Power, Privilege and the Rise of an American Dyn... Read more

Music, Mystery, Murder and The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
We return for another Monday afternoon with another episode of I Love A Mystery and lots of music. From November of 1941 we present chapter 9 of  the Carlton E. Morris thriller "The Monster In The Mansion". Our heroes, Jack Doc, and Reggie have been hired to stop a series o... Read more

Bonnie Lucas

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Jeanine Jablonski about the show “Bonnie Lucas 1978-2023” which is at the ILY2 Gallery through May 29. Jablonski talks about how Lucas’s assemblages have changed over the decades, how the founding Gue... Read more

Black Men Are Precious: Poet E Ethelbert Miller

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer, poet and literary activist.  His album, "Black Men Are Precious,"  was a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.   He is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry including The Collected Poems of E. Ethelb... Read more

April Showers Brings The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato starts off the week with another Sanpler, packed full with crazy fun. Another episode of I Love A Mystery, from 1941, Eight Kinds Of Murder. Also, lots of music. And in hour two, some live "bootleg" recordings of Lynard Skynard, Bruce Springsteen, and even the Bea... Read more

Film at 11 hails all the President's men today, for 7 April, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 04/07/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week, Jeff Godsil revisits Roman Polanski's The Tenant, from 1976, and Matthew of KBOO's bedtime story program Gremlin Time looks at My Young Auntie (1980), a comedy martial arts film which was the first starring role for who some consider "the Greatest Woman Martial A... Read more

John Cage: Indeterminacy (1957/58); Music for Piano (1952/56), Empty Words (1973/74)

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Fact and Fiction on today's Film at 11 for Friday 28 April, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 04/28/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week, Jeff Godsil revisits George Cukor's Holiday, from 1938, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, and Matthew of KBOO's bedtime story program Gremlin Time looks at Juggernaut, while in the book nook, we scrutinize two new books that explore the screen craft of Cary ... Read more

Film at 11 gets a little suave for Friday, 14 April, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 04/14/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week, Jeff Godsil revisits Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy, from 1950, and Matthew of KBOO's bedtime story program Gremlin Time looks at My Young Auntie,  and we revisit Britta Gordon's review of Christian Petzold’s 2020 Undine. Read more