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Book Mole: Low April Sun

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists that killed 168 people. The novel Low April Sun by Constance E. Squires, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, is set against that atrocity and show... Read more

Double Groove - Paul Hardcastle

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2026 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Double Groove
Tune in to explore Paul Hardcastles 1985, self titled album. The synth-pop dance album is paired with an accompaniment of smooth jazz to highlight the intersection of eighties and nineties synth music.  Read more

Beginnings 2026

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
This is our first show of the new year, and I’d like to ring in 2026 doing something I started for our first show in 2025. It’s an audio retrospective of last year’s interviews on Jonesy. Which I call Beginnings, for the beginning of the new year and the fact we’re playi... Read more

Interview with Author Jaime Ford

Airs at: Thu, 01/15/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Tune in to Between the Covers on Thursday, January 15th, for an interview with New York Times best-selling author Jamie Ford. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, explores a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the internment of Japane... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 5, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Criticizing Capitalism : Since the global financial crisis, and even more over the last five years, capitalism’s popularity has fallen, while the fortunes of the capitalist class have risen steeply. Polls show that a majority of people under forty, of any political af... Read more

Judith Arcana, 1943-2025, a Lifelong Troublemaker

The left community lost one of its stalwarts on winter solstice of 2025. Judith Arcana was a writer, poet, teacher and feminist activist. She is most well known for being one of the Janes, a pre-Roe, underground collective in Chicago that provided 11,000 illegal, but saf... Read more

Oil For Kisses #54 - 10,000 Screaming Children

Airs at: Sat, 01/03/2026 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
On this episode of OFK, my longtime friend Tim Iserman and play deep cuts from and rap about the whole "Screamo" ("emotive" hardcore) revival taking place - something that initially felt a little too soon for us oldsters who were there for it the first time seemingly not... Read more

Looking Back at a Wretched Year yet Ahead with Hope

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2026 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
What a weird, wretched, gut-wrenching year 2025 has been. Probably even worse than many of us had feared at the end of last year. But despite worsening climate chaos and glimpses of the end of democracy, there are glimmers of hope ahead. On this episode of Locus Focus, ... Read more

Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited

Airs at: Sun, 01/04/2026 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Nigel Watson is the author of Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited. He has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings since the 1970s. Host Donald Altman Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness ... Read more

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 12/25/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Over half a century ago, the UPA animation studio was a haven for misfit geniuses struggling to create relevant cartoon films in the face of political and cultural repression.  Gambling the future of the company on an hourlong television special featuring their most p... Read more