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Between the Covers host David Naimon talks to Le Guin in 2017 about her book Words Are My Matter. For the Fall Membership Drive, we're offering a special thank you gift package of a package of signed books by Ursula K Le Guin (limit 1 package available). Tune in to hear mor... Read more

  Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new e... Read more

Special climate focused talk radio hour. KBOO's Heather McCoy will be taking your calls about Friday's global Climate Strike. Call the air room at 503-231-8187. Read more

Among the movies opening today are Ad Astra, with Brad Pitt as an astronaut and the awaited big screen version of TV favorite Downton Abbey, along with other openings and revivals that the crew will assess, including co-hosts Mindy and Mona.  Read more

The KBOO News Team broadcasts live from the global Climate Strike here in Portland. We hear from the rally at City Hall, the march across the Hawthorne Bridge, and from the students who are striking for their future.  Read more

  Patsy Cline! Two words that evoke an irresistable voice, style and charm that goes right to your heart and stays there. Tune in to Swing & Country Saturday morning for a whole mess of Patsy. You'll fall to pieces.  Read more

  On today's special membership drive show, I'll highlight one of the most unusual sets in Grateful Dead history.  Tune in to find out more. Read more

Nancy Wilson and Joni Mitchell - Each with a telling and distinctive sound. One, a perennial stylist of composition; the other a story teller of immense imagination. Both provide genre bending brilliance; a nod to jazz vocalist Little Jimmy Scott, the other a poetic genius... Read more

For centuries, three unique pods of orcas have hunted chinook salmon along the northwestern Pacific coast. Yet wild chinook salmon here are increasingly scarce. The orcas are going hungry, their numbers dwindling along with their primary source of food. Extinction looms for... Read more

Host Per Fagereng talks to author Jeremy Kuzmarov about his new book OBAMA’S UNENDING WARS: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Clarity Press, 2019). "Many academics consider Obama to have been a master foreign policy strategist and shrewd practitio... Read more

KBOO's Barbara Bernstein talks to journalist and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein about her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (Simon and Schuster, 2019). ------------- #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Kle... Read more

It's the Fall Memebership Drive, which means it's also time for NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS DAY! On Friday, Sept 27 from 8a-6p, we're going to be featuring special interviews that focus on the climate crisis. We're starting the day off with an interview with bestselling author,... Read more

Dear KBOO Friends,  It is with sadness that we have to share the news that Sue Bartlett passed away. Sue was a long time KBOO member, former Board member, and current Board candidate. Sue was the victim of a car accident on Friday, August 31, 2019. She was a scooter advoca... Read more