Fiction

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The Railway Carriage by F. Tennyson Jesse

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/21/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight's featured writer is mostly known for her reportage of "true crime" and documentation of the many tasks taken up by women attached to The Royal Army in World War I. As well as her novel "A Pin To See The Peepshow"(1934). She also created a female series detective in... Read more

Winter Film Events

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Local cinema programmers Greg Hamilton and Micah Vanderhoof offer up dark films for the dark winter months, with appearances by directors John Dahl and Julia Reichert, who are in town for retrospectives of their work.  John Dahl joins us on the phone to talk about his ca... Read more

The Song of the Jade Lily

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kirsty Manning’s  2019 novel, The Song of the Jade Lily, about World War II era Jewish refugees in Shanghai. It’s a story about the role that Shanghai played in the rescue of 20,00 refugees from Europe before and during the second world war. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 6, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Autoworkers and Climate Change: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the United Auto Workers and GM in Canada, and raising expectations around not just bread-and-butter issues but retooling the auto industry to combat climate... Read more

Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection Black Light from Vintage Books. Kim’s fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Kenyon Review, and other journals. And her book ... Read more

Ava of the Gaia

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with attorney and author Grace Nosek about her Ava of the Gaia trilogy--a hopeful climate fantasy series featuring a young female heroine. Nosek is a founding member of the University of British Columbia Climate Hub and carries out research on how to confro... Read more

Raina Telgemeier

Airs at: Thu, 12/26/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Raina Telgemeier has become a rock star among school-age readers, with her graphic memoirs Smile and Guts and her interactive how-to book Share Your Smile.  Scholastic Books launched the Graphix imprint based on Raina's comics adaptations of Ann M. Martin's Baby-Sitters ... Read more

The Father Christmas Letters presented by Katherine Dunn

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Once again The Sampler presents our annual holiday special The Father Christmas Letters, written by J.R.R. Tolkien and read to us by Katherine Dunn. Also some seasonal and non seasonal music.  Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour on 12/23/19

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/24/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
On this special Christmas-Eve Eve edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, which, by the way, was Mel Torme’s favorite radio show, we spread holiday cheer with actor and master storyteller David Loftus. David hosts the long-running series “Story Time for Grownups”, which celebrat... Read more

Have Yourself a Swing 'n' Country Christmas

Airs at: Sat, 12/21/2019 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
  Have yourself a country Christmas this Saturday morning. Tune in to Swing 'n' Country on KBOO.FM for three hours of Christmas tunes. You'll hear Ray Price, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash and more. Tune in to 90.7 fm from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Yule love it! Read more