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Poetry and Baseball

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
For one day this season, every player wore number 42, Jackie Robinson’s number, to celebrate 75 years of major league desegregation. Matt Witt’s poem about his meeting as a seven-year-old with Roy Campanella, Robinson’s teammate and another great Black player, reminds us of... Read more

Can humanity survive climate change?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Hart-Landsberg shows the way. In rich detail he describes the planning and politics of transformation, when the Roosevelt Administration took control of the U.S. state and from 1941 to 19... Read more

"You Are Doing Nothing" and the Deadly Tragedy of the Politics of Jesus, Guns, and Babies

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
Once again, for the second week in a row, as 19 children and two teachers lost their lives to gun violence in Uvalde, Texas. These mass shootings must be seen as the outcome of the deadly and cynical policies of right-wing Republican politicians. Georgia's Kandiss Taylor lo... Read more

A Health-Based Approach

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, Canada's House of Commons discusses decriminalization and harm reduction in a debate over Bill C-216, plus Prof. Susan C. Boyd, PhD, on her new book Heroin: An Illustrated History. Read more

Animation Outlaws

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Kat Alioshin is a film director and producer who's helped shepherd numerous stop-motion animated classics to the big screen, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Coraline, and James and the Giant Peach. Now she's turned for inspiration to the long... Read more

Classic Labor Songs

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
In a departure from the usual interview format, host Jamie Partridge plays classic labor songs from the 20th century, including Talking Union (Almanac Singers), Joe Hill (Paul Robeson), Bread and Roses (Bobbie McGee), We Shall Not Be Moved (Joe Glazer), Which Side Are You O... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 23, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Image by Vicky Scott—Ikon Images Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Teen Mental Health: Is there a Teen mental Health Crisis as alleged by the New York Times? The Times’s series of articles, the first titled "It's L... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sometimes, though not often, Book Mole Larry Bowlden reads a book simply for the joy of it. Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garnus, is such a joy to read. But the 2022 novel also has lots to say about women in the sciences and the ways in which they are forced to work in th... Read more

Lloyd Kaufman - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Kaufman, we feature 50% more fun. For the past half-century, thousands of film industry crew members and actors have learned the ropes working for Lloyd and his fiercely independent New York studio.... Read more

Buzzy Donahue: KPTZ DJ and free-form radio royalty

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Buzzy Donahue, a deejay on our sister community radio station, KPTZ in Port Townsend, Washington. Buzzy is radio royalty. Her dad is the legendary Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue who pioneered free-form radio back in San Francisco in the late 1960s. I... Read more