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50 Years of KBOO Late Night DJ celebration

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

tonight on A Different Nature, we'll be listening back to archival audio of the early years of KBOO's late night programming, when freeform was a mindset and not a style Read more

Hollywood Before the Code

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

Putting the Sin in Cinema is the name of film historian Elliot Lavine's course about the early days of sound film, when Hollywood addressed social issues with minimal censorship. Following a series of celebrity scandals and complaints about lewd content, the studios cre... Read more

The Underground: STORIES

Airs at: Wed, 12/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: The Underground

We'll tell stories, there's a group discussion, and we'll talk about the whys and hows of stories we tell "Rosita." by Guillermo Gedé is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Read more

Buscando America on 12/25/18

Airs at: Tue, 12/25/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

¿Cuál es el origen de La navidad, Santa Claus, el árbol de Navidad y de dónde viene la costumbre de intercambiar regalos? Escucha esta emisión donde indagamos en el texto de David C. Pack un pastor norteamericano , fundador de Restored Church of God a la vez que escuchamos ... Read more

John McLaughlin

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: Jazz in the New Millennium

Harold Lopez Nussa

Airs at: Sun, 12/23/2018 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: Jazz in the New Millennium

A Big Bowl of Wassail

Airs at: Tue, 12/25/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dec 25, 2018 - This special holiday episode of Peace, Love and Soup is our gift to you! Sit back, relax and join us as we ladle up some wassail (our soup for this month) and joyfully reminisce about the first year of our podcast! We'll be replaying past inspiratio... Read more

Intersex issues, Candy Royalle, Portland Lesbian Choir, & Santa Bear

Airs at: Tue, 12/25/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We'll be listening to the syndicated program Making Contact. Today's program is on intersex issues, both medical and personal, and gender identity concerns. We'll hear a poetry clip from Candy Royalle, Australian queer poet and artist who died earlier this year. You can re... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/25/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Holy Crowley Hour

On this special Christmas Eve edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, which, by the way, was Charles Dickens' favorite radio show, we spread holiday cheer with guest Cindy McGean of the Willamette Radio Workshop. Cindy is a Portland-based writer and teacher, with a background in... Read more

End Of The Year Show

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Fortunato and Just Jess have some crazy fun lined up for the end of the year. More chatting with DK Holm about this year's movies, books and the current season of Dr. Who. Also, a final letter from Father Christmas read to us by Katherine Dunn. Read more