History

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In the Pines

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
When historian Grace Elizabeth Hale was a college student, her mother told her a story about how Hale’s grandfather, the white sheriff in a poor county in Mississippi, heroically stood up to a white mob and tried to prevent the lynching of a Black man. In Hale’s book, In Th... Read more

Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In 1980, in a stunning act of solidarity with progressive forces both in the U.S. and Central America, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the ILWU, refused to load military supplies being shipped from the US government to El Salvador’s dictatorship. Their refu... Read more

Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Feeding Ghosts author Tessa Hulls, we spend an extra 20 minutes digging into the story of her family's struggles and of a graphic memoir nine years in the making. Feeding Ghosts is a sprawling saga of survival and madness and love, seen... Read more

CMarie Fuhrman: Hope in Your Hands

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Selections from CMarie Fuhrman's April 5, 2023 talk at the Washington State University Visiting Writers Series, about the hopefulness of obliterating dams and replanting forest on the South Fork of the Salmon River.  CMarie Fuhrman is an author and poet whose work is roo... Read more

Queery

Dive into the spectrum of queer music as we explore known and unknown artists across time and genre; from the history of early twentieth century blues and jazz to modern pop, folk, electronic, indie music and more. Queery showcases music created by members of the 2SLGBTQIA+... Read more

Gurdjieff: Harmonium Improvisations 1948-1949

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Mabel Normand- Pioneer Filmaker

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/16/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
An evening of non-fiction as Fortunato reads Chapter 13, "Mabel At The Wheel", from Dana Stevens'  biography of Buster Keaton, Camera Man 2022. Tonight's chapter focuses on the career of Mabel Normand, who was already an established star and director by the time Charlie Cha... Read more

Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

Oil For Kisses 37 - Doomed by the Living Dead

Airs at: Sat, 04/06/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
A broad and eclectic but far-from-comprehensive history of doom metal and related music, spanning over five decades.  Pic by Z. Markevicius Read more

Tesla City Stories Celebrates 10th Season!

Airs at: Wed, 04/03/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Back in the Golden Age of Radio, there was a short-lived network, called the Tesla Broadcasting Company (or TBC). Founded in New York in 1943, and acquired by CBS just two years later, the TBC became a mere footnote in the history of American Radio. That is until March 10t... Read more