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Old Mole Variety Hour for May 30, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Girl of Venezuela: Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Can humanity survive climate change? In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Ha... Read more

Poetry and Baseball

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
For one day this season, every player wore number 42, Jackie Robinson’s number, to celebrate 75 years of major league desegregation. Matt Witt’s poem about his meeting as a seven-year-old with Roy Campanella, Robinson’s teammate and another great Black player, reminds us of... Read more

Jonesy

You'll meet the most interesting people in the world of literature, radio theater, podcasts, music, and humor here, on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month from 11am to 11:30am PT. I'm the host of Jonesy, Ken Jones. No relation, by the way. Read more

Working Out in Recovery

Airs at: Sun, 10/10/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Produced for Recovery Recap
I was taught in recovery that there are 5 basic things we do to have a successful program including:  1. Get a sponsor 2. Work the steps 3. Be of service 4. Go to meetings 5. Find a higher power.  For some of us there is a 6th basic thing we do for success in recovery and t... Read more

What About Simone?

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Our Well Read Red Sharon Grant shares an article about sport as a business and how Black women athletes in particular get the short end of the stick. The article by Kurt Streeter was published July 23 in the New York Times.   Photo by Susie Butler/Flickr: Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 21, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts today program which includes the following segments: Radical Re-envisioning of Life on a Hot Planet: Bill Resnick interviews Richard A. Smith, a historian of modern China, and also an environmentalist activist who co-founded the organization System Cha... Read more

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Airs at: Sun, 01/14/2007 at 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Victoria Boutenko shares on raw food challenges and green revelations. Victoria Boutenko is part of a raw food family and is the author of Green Smoothies and Green for Life. CD-1421 Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Dr. Thabiti Lewis, Ballers of the New School : race and sports in America

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
 Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing ... Read more

Tilman Fertitta | SHUT UP AND LISTEN!

Airs at: Wed, 12/04/2019 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Open Air
SHUT UP AND LISTEN: Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed –  global restaurant, entertainment and hospitality mogul, Tilman Fertitta unveils powerful strategies that rocketed his global hospitality empire to the top.  Having created his hospitality empire 30 years... Read more