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Radio Lost & Found for 06/27/19

Airs at: Thu, 06/27/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 06/28/2019 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radio Lost and Found

A brand new episode of Radio Lost & Found, just for you! Read more

Interview with Evie Shockley

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic(2017), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA TimesBook Prize. She has published four other collections of poetry—including the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wright ... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour on 6/24/19

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/25/2019 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Holy Crowley Hour

Welcome to the summer solstice edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, the night-time radio show that makes you wish the longest days of the year were even longer. Our guests tonight are Kieran Davey and Jacqueline Ozorio of the wonderful British podcast The Penny Peepshow. The ... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Jerry Chrisman, John Campbell, Karyn O'Bryant

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: News In Depth

Back in the Golden Age of Radio, even before KBOO, in fact, even before Ira Glass, there was a short-lived, though influential network, called the Tesla Broadcasting Company. They did things differently than the big networks at the time – the Columbia Broadcasting Systems a... Read more

Excerpts from The Comedians, a history of American Comedy, By Kliph Nesteroff, Part 3

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/18/2019 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

In the late 1950's the show business establishment hated the two hottest comics of the day, Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl. And did all it could to derail their careers. It was not until comedian Redd Foxx began to appear on a series of "party records" that anyone thought that t... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 06/13/19

Airs at: Thu, 06/13/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 06/14/2019 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radio Lost and Found

It's about allergy medication and slugs. Here’s the show. Allergies have been kicking my ass, so didn’t talk a lot, being somewhat zoned out on generic over-the-counter antihistamines. Played some British New Wave/Post Punk for the first forty minutes or so and did a lot o... Read more

Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell

Airs at: Thu, 06/13/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Karen Russell, author of the new book Orange World and Other Stories. Orange World is Karen’s fifth book, following the novel Swamplandia!, the novella Sleep Donation, and two collections of short fiction – St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolv... Read more