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Animal Farm

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Victoria Saucedo and Denise Morris review the 1954 animated film Animal Farm. While there have been several film versions of George Orwell’s 1946 Novel, the 1954 production is notable as a British-American collaboration with funding from the CIA as part of the “American cul... Read more

A Piece of the World

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book mole Larry Bowlden reviews Christina Baker Kline’s 2017 novel, A Piece of the World. Probably most of you know about the famous Andrew Wyeth painting, Christina’s World—a rather enigmatic painting of a girl or young woman sitting on the ground and looking up at a lonel... Read more

Remember To Wash Your Hands

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler is back for the last Monday in April. We will present another story by James Thurber, read to us by Katherine Dunn, "More Alarms At Night". It seems that the Thurber family is always getting up to some strange things in the middle of the night. A follow up story... Read more

Tino Contreras "Éxitos" 3 LP Set

Airs at: Sun, 04/26/2020 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  La Voz Del Sabor
This is a fantastic 3 LP Set released in 1968 by Musart with drummer TIno Contreras. He is now 96 years old and going stong!! Read more

"Fools," Kate Gray

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  The Occasion
The theme for April is "Fools," and this month's show features Kate Gray, who is the author of For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems and Another Sunset We Survive, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed her chapbooks, Bone-Knowing, winner of the Gertrude... Read more

Makirush, LLT, Carlo, Rebeld'd Punk, Metal Mexicano, Sub Lux

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/25/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
   Menonite rock Makirush with the album Babushka, LLT with Ficción Remixes, Carlo with Toma lo que Quieras, Mexican Heavy Metal and Portland's Sub-Lux. Read more

Another Re-Run of Film at 11, for April 24, 2020

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Here's a replay of our interview with cinematographer Eric Edwards about J. T. Leroy.  Read more

Marjane Satrapi - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of the animated feature film version of Persepolis.  She grew up in Tehran during the revolution that toppled the Shah and led... Read more

Ep 105. It Takes A Village To Install A Bidet

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 12:00am - Sun, 05/31/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
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Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday April 21, 2020 in a special one hour show from 11:00 a.m. to noon PST Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity. Le Guin talks about how Roney translated recorded voices of undocumented Amer... Read more