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The Quarantine Episode

Airs at: Sat, 05/30/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Threshold Shift
We'll be broadcasting slices of life created in quarantine and lockdowns from around the US, Ireland and France. Broadcaster's Note: The original mission statement for this show was to broadcast audio that is focused on the environment and nature in hopes of highlighting a... Read more

Remembering Animator Bruce Bickford - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  For half a century, Bruce Bickford ran a one-man clay animation production house, constructing surreal miniature worlds in a cavernous Seattle studio and bringing them to life through the magic of stop-motion.  Bickford gained notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind ... Read more

Late in the Day

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Late in the Day, a 2019 novel by Tessa Hadley, a throwback to the domestic tales of Elizabeth Bowen and Edith Wharton and so many other women authors, explores in detail the inner lives of four people who live in an intimate dance of love and... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Murder In Wax

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
The Monday Sampler presents, in our second hour, another Sherlock Holmes Adventure starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, from their long running radio series. London is rocked by a series of murders of young women in Hamsted Heath. Called in to assist the investigation, ... Read more

Hurricane Season

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  "Brutal, relentless, beautiful, fugal, Hurricane Season explores the violent mythologies of one Mexican village and reveals how they touch the global circuitry of capitalist greed. This is an inquiry into the sexual terrorism and terror of broken men. This is a work o... Read more

The Night Run of the Overland

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/19/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
From the Golden Age of Railroad Fiction comes tonight's story "The Night Run Of The Overland" by Elmore Elliot Peake. With steam train engineer Fox laid up with a fever, it falls to his wife Sylvia, who has assited him on many trips in the cabin of the Overland Express, to... Read more

Shary Flenniken - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Shary Flenniken is one of the most influential figures in the history of underground comics.  Her comic Trots & Bonnie burst onto the pages of the National Lampoon in the early 1970's, and with its mix of radical politics, coy sexuality, absurd situations, approachable ... Read more

Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Adam Levin, author of the new novel Bubblegum, from Doubleday. Adam’s work includes the novel The Instructions and the story collection Hot Pink. He's been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endow... Read more

The Well Read Red

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Today the Well-Read Red contrasts two essays about pandemics. Both draw on the same historical and literary sources, but derive utterly different conclusions from them. Our Well Read Red finds this fascinating and asks why Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, an... Read more

Wild Life

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Molly Gloss’s novel Wild Life, the story of a writer of women’s adventure stories who becomes lost in the woods, and who survives only with the aid of a family of human-like creatures. It is also a book about writing and especially women’s wr... Read more