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Trying New Things With Beau Johnson from Playtest NW

Airs at: Tue, 03/18/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
Nate and James Interview Beau Johnson from Playtest NW about playtesting board games, who does it, and differences (if there are any) between the board game scenes in Portland and Seattle. Read more

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives with Veronica Selver

Airs at: Tue, 03/18/2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive PDX this week for a rebroadcast of our International Women's Day show with Veronica Selver.  Veronica Selver is an accomplished filmmaker known for her work in documentary filmmaking. Throughout her career, she has focused on exploring th... Read more

An Algerian Gangster, A Beautiful Woman, A Pirate Treasure and The Third Man

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Bringing the Thrills for Another Week, Fortunato has dug out an episode of the BBC radio series from 1951 inspired by the movie The Third Man.starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. In debt to a violent gangster,  Harry Lime is forced into a treasure hunt in North Africa  A... Read more

After The Thin Man

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/18/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of After The Thin Man with Myrna loy recreating their roles from MGM's first sequel to their popular release The Thin Man. Returning to San Francisco, after spending Christmas in Manhattan, find their house filled with self-in... Read more

For a film at 11 on 14 March, 2025, Mona Bowen rejoined us to discuss some current streaming TV shows

Airs at: Fri, 03/14/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Chaos: The Manson Murders,  The Pitt, Running Point, Captain America: Brave New World, Zero Day Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 03/14/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
I'm Maya—a bisexual author, coder and tech jj journalist at Intel. I live in a floating home on the Columbia river with my husband of 34 years, am a member of the Raging Grannies, and I publish local authors under the Lingua Ink imprint. Though I was happily juggling my ... Read more

Putin's Russia - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 03/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As Vladimir Putin flexes his geopolitical muscles at the start of a second Trump term, we revisit our March 2022 conversation with British comics artist Darryl Cunningham, author of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. In this hour-long special, Darryl tracks the ... Read more

Prison Impacted Musicians

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Fury Young with FREER Records, the first record label in the United States for prison-impacted musicians.  Their mission is to build the careers of our artists so their work is widely heard, uncensored and upholding their humanity.  More infor... Read more

Night In the City Has Its Own Groove

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Lot's of solid rythums this afternoon as well as a story from the darkest part of the human mind. This afternoon's radio drama comes from the early 1950's. Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter who covers the Night Beat. Today's story centers around a series of ... Read more

In memory of Susan DeFreitas

Airs at: Thu, 03/13/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today’s show, we celebrate the life of Susan DeFreitas, who passed away two weeks ago at her home in Santa Fe, at the way-too-young age of 47. Susan was a much-loved member of the Portland writing community. All of us here, who felt blessed to know her, are heartbroke... Read more