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Music to start the week

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more music for these pre Summer Days of Crazy Weather. Musicians featured on today's show includes Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Carmen McCrae, Dan Hicks, Christen Scott, Lorenze Alexandria, Ben Webster, Aretha Franklin, Dr John, Junior Brown and many ... Read more

More Stories of the Railroads

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/19/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Tonight we represent a classic tale of the sexes. A young woman is not surprised to learn that her new husband is a Train Fanatic. Who uses their honeymoon to visit his favorite lines. And he and his friends from work have constructed a large model railroad layout in one of... Read more

Documentarian Jan Haaken

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Jan Haaken is a clinical psychologist who also happens to be an author and documentary filmmaker.  Her films include Guilty Except for Insanity, a look behind the walls of a hospital for the criminally insane; Mind Zone, a portrait of therapists with the 113th Army Comba... Read more

Susan Harrington

Airs at: Tue, 04/19/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Susan Harrington about her painting show “Our House On Fire” which is on now at Waterstone Gallery in the Pearl District until May 1. Harrington talks about looking for endangered Oregon plants, painting them in observe... Read more

Buscando America on 04/12/22

Airs at: Tue, 04/12/2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
Programa musical. Read more

Laura Stanfill, author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we welcome Laura Stanfill, author of the debut novel Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, from Lanternfish Press. Laura is the founder of Forest Avenue Press, a Portland-based indie publisher now in its tenth year. Laura's own writing has appeared in Sho... Read more

Another mix of old and new on Film at 11 for Friday, 29 May, 2022

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week on  Film at 11 Natalie Lasko will take a look at the recent Drive My Car, which won the Oscar for Best International Film, while Jeff Godsil revisits Auto Focus, about the Bob Crane case, and Matthew of KBOO's monthly Gremlin Time offers up Dark Passage, with Boga... Read more

More Adventures with The Fantastic Four

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
As snow covers the rose city the Sampler returns with lots of music and comic books. Featuring Lalah Hathaway, Clark Terry, Earth, Wind & Fire, Charles Lloyd, Jessica Willams, King Curtis and many others. Also, in the first hour we present a radio adaptation of The Fantasti... Read more

Boogie Pachanguero presents.....The harp

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for Boogie Pachanguero
Good evening gentle folks! Tonight, join us on an exposition of the musical instrument known as the harp. An instrument found all across the globe, we're going discover how it can inspire respect, desire, joy, sadness, and a million feelings in between. Feel free to enjoy ... Read more