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Teaching Palestine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum.  In this segment,  Jan Haaken talks with Bill Bigelow about the volume he has co-edited, Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices (2025),  new from Rethinking Schools.  The volume provides ... Read more

Let's Talk! The 35th Cascade Festival of African Film ft. Brook Ramirez

Airs at: Fri, 03/07/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Let's Talk!
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Film Is Dead - Long Live Film - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this 50% longer conversation with documentarian and media studies professor Peter Flynn, we dive deeper into the world of amateur film collectors, whose avocation has made them outlaws to the major movie studios and heroes to lovers of analog cinema.  Peter's latest p... Read more

Film Is Dead - Long Live Film

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Peter Flynn is a documentarian and professor of media studies whose films include The Dying of the Light, a profile of the last generation of career projectionists.  His latest project, Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! dives into the world of amateur film collectors, whose ... Read more

Karen Russell, author of The Antidote

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Karen Russell, author of the new novel The Antidote from Knopf. The Antidote is Karen’s sixth book of fiction, following the story collections Orange World, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, the novel... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 24, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Desiree Hellegers and features these segments: The Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP): We feature an interview with MERP organizer Yolotli X speaking about their personal journey from street kid to urban farmer and about the work of this an... Read more

Democracy Under Siege

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center of... Read more

On the Legacy of PATCO 1981

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Michel looks back at the 1981 strike by PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.  This commentary considers the problems faced then and now by Air Traffic... Read more

La Toya Hampson, aka The Lady Rose

Airs at: Thu, 01/30/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is poet, filmmaker, educator, retired therapist, and thought leader – La Toya A. Hampton, MSW ~ The Poet Lady Rose. She is holding Rhymes and Roots: Celebrating North Portland through Poetry Workshops through Sunday, February 9. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 3, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Defending the Resistors: On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were found ... Read more