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Film at 11 celebrates Americana this week, on Friday, 4 February 2022

Airs at: Fri, 02/04/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This wwee we take a look at a few recent releases, while Jeff Godsil comments on Our Town. Britta Gordon reflects on  Samuel Fuller's crazy masterwork The Naked Kiss, and in the book corner a recent volume-length interview with the late director by Peter Tonguette, Picturin... Read more

More Fantastic Adventures from the start of the Marvel Age

Airs at: Mon, 01/24/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns for another Monday. Fortunato has plenty of toe tapping music lined up to help you through a winter's afternoon. This week we feature more adventures Of The Fantastic Four as then confront their most dangerous foe yet, The Incredible Hulk. So, put a litt... Read more

KHEM

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday January 25, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist KHEM, about his show Smiles of Planet Earth in Portland, Oregon. KHEM paints simple black curves on white paper, arranged in patterns whose meaning he decodes after he has completed the work. KHEM has travelled ... Read more

Film at 11 offers a repeat of one of its most popular episodes for Friday, 21 January 2022

Airs at: Fri, 01/21/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Today we repeat one of the most popular recent episodes of Film at 11: KBOO's Matthew, and professor Lisa Neville of Cortland University in New York State join our host DKH in a 30-minute dissection of Alfred Hitchcock's paean to small town America in Shadow of a Doubt, cle... Read more

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays by Marc Bookman

Airs at: Thu, 01/20/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy." -- Martin Luther King On today's episode, we welcome Marc Bookman, author of the new book A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays from T... Read more

Tribute to Stan Lee and The Fantastic Four

Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we will present a pair of radio dramas adapted from the pages of The Greatest Comic Magazine in the World which first issues appeared on newsstands 60 years ago this year. It is also the 100th birthday of Stan Lee who along with illustrator Jack Kirby created this a... Read more

More Mid-Winter Fun

Airs at: Mon, 01/17/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Another Monday afternoon and time for The Sampler.  Fortunato hosts. So tune in for music and surprises. Also, another radio adventure with the Fantastic Four. This week they become "Prisoners of The Puppetmaster". Stan Lee narrates this radio drama adapted from issue #8 of... Read more

Stan Lee 100th Birthday Special

Airs at: Mon, 01/17/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/18/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
In honor of the 100th Birthday of Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, and the 60th Anniversary of the appearance of The Fantastic Four, we present a dramatic radio adaptation of Issues #16 & #17 of the The World's Greatest Comic Magazine. Produced in 1968, and narrated ... Read more

Only in Oregon - the Political Cartoons of Jesse Springer

Airs at: Thu, 01/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Only in Oregon: 26 Years of Oregon Political Cartoons is the new collection from cartoonist and graphic designer Jesse Springer, who’s been chronicling the unique foibles of statewide politics for over a quarter of a century from his drawing board in Eugene. Jesse joins... Read more

A year in Pachanguero - Año nuevo, Boogie nuevo

Airs at: Fri, 01/14/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Boogie Pachanguero
  Welcome back folks! A little recap of all the goodness in music we have experienced in the past year. From the experimental Chinese vibes to the smooth Pacifico marimba rhythms, it was trip across the width and length of the globe. We have some new gems to uncover and b... Read more