Fiction

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 13, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will host this edition of the Old Mole, and will will hear: A critique of the Ken Burns docmentary "Vietnam"; About organizing for reproductive justice here in Oregon; Whether China's economic model has reduced global poverty; A review of a Jennifer ... Read more

Laika Animation at the Portland Art Museum

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  From its humble beginnings as Will Vinton Studios in the 1970's, Portland's Laika Entertainment has become one of the top studios in the world for stop-motion animation, producing the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.  Now,... Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Back again for the late night radio show that comes on in the afternoon! Join Fortunato, PBK and Just Jess for Crazy Fun.. Today we are visited by two local writers Jennifer Robin, and Julia Lexar, who will tells us about a reading program they will be participating in toni... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick speaks with Jag Davies about how to end nearly all the damage of drug abuse. Some countries and many localities are decriminalizing in whole or in part. Hear how they did it. Larry Bowlden reviews the novel The Last Bus to Wisdom by working class author Ivan Do... Read more

Last Bus to Wisdom

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews Last Bus to Wisdom, a novel by working class author Ivan Doig. Click here to learn more about Ivan Doig. Click here to purchase the novel at Barnes and Noble. Read more

The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance (Celene Lillie) ENCORE

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  ***Celene Lillie and Arthur Dewey will be at Southminster Presbyterian Church for a Jesus Seminar on the Road, November 10-11, 2017.***   The Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945 has provided a number of alternative Christian texts.   They were not included in the Bib... Read more

Famous Monsters by Kim Newman

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/17/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
For our Halloween Show we'll  re air Red Ryder's presentation of "The Terror of Cat Island" by Byron Leggett. A writer buys himself an isolated island in the South Pacific so he can focus on his writing. Unfortunately he brings a few too many cats with him.  Fortunato will ... Read more

Animator Kathy Zielinski

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode, we're joined by Kathy Zielinski, the pioneering artist and filmmaker who's been called "The Queen of Animated Villains" for helping bring to life such characters as Ursula the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid and Jafar in Aladdin. Wbile visiting P... Read more

New Queer & Trans writing: talking with Tobi Hill-Meyer and Gabby Rivera

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll spend time with educator, activist, and writer Tobi Hill-Meyer. She's a founder of the Gender Justicve League, a transgender civil & human rights organization in Washington, as well as an author of two children's books... and her work includes sex worker rights, AIDS ... Read more

Library Ladies' Fall Reading Suggestions

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Looking for family-friendly programs and some curl-up-and-read ideas?  Then our North Portland Library Ladies -- manager Kirby McCurtis and outreach/programming specialist SyNova Blackwell-- have ideas for you!   From fall programs for all ages to must-read suggestions, the... Read more