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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 6, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Autoworkers and Climate Change: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin about the United Auto Workers and GM in Canada, and raising expectations around not just bread-and-butter issues but retooling the auto industry to combat climate... Read more

REBROADCAST: In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
This is a rebroadcast of Black Book Talk's August 1, 2019 interview with author De'Shawn Charles Winslow re his debut novel,  In West Mills. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossi... Read more

End of the Year Show

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Last show of the year for the Sampler. Fortunato filled the afternoon with lots of music. With some serious jam sessions, and a set of gypsy jazz. In the last hour, SW Conser and former KBOO volunteer Josh drop in to talk about Josh's travels in Asia, and Fortunato gives a ... Read more

INDIGIFI-Identity

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae Roberts presents the final episode of the 4-part series INDIGIFI-Definition of Resilience, a documentaries about Indigenous hip hop artists produced and hosted by Alexis Sallee of INDIGEFI and distributed by Native Voice One. This episode is called Identity” and it... Read more

Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection Black Light from Vintage Books. Kim’s fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Kenyon Review, and other journals. And her book ... Read more

Squirrels Know on 12/27/19

Airs at: Fri, 12/27/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Getting ready for the new age at hand !!  Just stay positive and trust the process. And it'll be the Rainbow Children / GenZ influencers of love and positivity who will help us lead the way, alongside the trailblazers who have paved the way for all of us amidst a world that... Read more

Buscando America on 12/24/19

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Programa navideño transmitiendo desde la ciudad de México donde hablamos con Maggie Loredo de la organización ODA Otros Dreams en Acción sobre los balances del 2019 para la comunidad de los que crecieron en los Estados Unidos y ahora se encuentran en México debido a la depo... Read more

Red-Nosed Reindeer

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Christmas story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Originally aired on NBC in 1964, the GE-sponsored classic tells the story of two misfits and their eventual acceptance by Santa and his elves. But a dee... Read more

Ava of the Gaia

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with attorney and author Grace Nosek about her Ava of the Gaia trilogy--a hopeful climate fantasy series featuring a young female heroine. Nosek is a founding member of the University of British Columbia Climate Hub and carries out research on how to confro... Read more

Reading by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
If you’ve been listening to “Poetry and Everything” regularly, or even now&then, you know that the past several months have included shows with various formats (that is, not what had been the standard in the first three years of the show). This one, too, is different, in bo... Read more