Arts and Culture

More Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more music for a summer afternoon by the pool. We'll also contnue will our radio dramatisation of  Ian Fleming's 1953 Cold War Novel, Moonraker. With Toby Stevens as agent James Bond. After a security officer at a secret rocket base is murdered, Lt Co... Read more

Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot from Sibylline Press. Suzy’s published fiction includes the novel Faultland and the young adult novels The Moment Before and The Empress Chronicles series. Her award-winning short fiction and nonfi... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Avel Gordly: "Remembering the Power of Words

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  When President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president to succeed him, the country's attention focussed on Kamala Harris. The notion of this dynamic, Afro-Asian woman (mother emigrated from India,  father  from Jamaica)  has b... Read more

On Film at 11 for Friday, 9 August, Jeff rejoins us to ponder Hollywood's racial history

Airs at: Fri, 08/09/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
• Mona on Faye.   • Jeff Godsil on The Good Earth, from 1937.    • A new BFI monograph on the German film Mädchen in Uniform from 1931.    • And Matthew of KBOO' s monthly storybook show Gremlin Time on The Heroic Trio     Read more

LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage | Live Panel 9: Queer Spaces and Places

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Here at KBOO, we are celebrating Pride Month and LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage on Tuesdays, 7:00 to 8:00pm, with live panels from our studios, where we will have guests from these communities talk to us about their culture, presence, struggles, and relevance. Calls are welcome ☎... Read more

Joshua David Palmer - local poet, adventurer, in-home caregiver

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
  Born and raised in Estes Park Colorado, home of the Rocky Mountain National Park. This area is also known for the haunted ‘Stanley Hotel’ where parts of Steven King’s ‘The Shining’ and Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carrey were filmed. Joshua is 25 years old, moved to Portlan... Read more

Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Startingthis week on The Sampler will be a serialized presentation of a dramatisation of Ian Fleming's Cold War Thriller Moonraker. Toby Stevens stars as Jams Bond in this BBC production. With the following instalments presented through the month Read more

Invasions and holidays decade by decade on Film at 11 for Friday, 2 August, 2024

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
In this week's survey of screen offerings from four different decades, we include Britta Gordon on Steve McQueen's Small Axe Episode three, Red, White and Blue, Jeff Godsilon Billy Wilder's The Apartment, from 1960, KBOO's Matthew on Richard Lester's Juggernaut from 1974, a... Read more

Eddie Muller - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film pres... Read more