Thursday, February 05, 2009

Thursday, February 5 on WPKN

2:00 a.m. DJ Conscious 6:00 a.m. Cliff Furnold, Working Title
  • In response to listener requests, an archive of the first installment of Immigrant Voices: A program of stories from American immigrant experiences, (which premiered on January 15th) has been made available online at: http://www.rootsworld.com/interview/immigrantvoices01.html. Hosted by Anthony Riccio and produced by Cliff Furnald, Immigrant Voices explores the immigrant experience via the stories and music of people who have come to America to seek new lives or escape the old. Anthony Riccio is the author of two critically noted histories, "The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories" (SUNY Press) and "Boston's North End: Images and Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood" (Globe Pequot).
10:00 a.m. Binnie Klein, A Miniature World
  • 10:30 AM: Binnie Klein interviews acclaimed journalist Janet Carlson about her memoir "Quick, Before the Music Stops: How Ballroom Dancing Changed My Life" (Broadway Books). This riveting personal story is guaranteed to help anyone find their center and balance.
  • 11:15 AM: Internationally-renowned speaker, consultant, and best-selling author David Whyte about his new book (http://www.davidwhyte.com), The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self, and Relationship (Riverhead Books). Whyte believes there are three families of reality in life: work, our significant other, and our inner self. He explores the ways in which they are intertwined.
12:00 p.m. Tidings from Hazel Kahn
  • Part one of a three-part series titled Making Sense of a World in Crisis premieres this week. John Daido Loori, a Zen Buddhist monk, and Peter Russell, a scholar of the mind and consciousness, share their perspectives on what is going on in our world today. The next program in the series, with Michael Harvey, a "sacred activist," will be broadcast on Thursday, February 26 at 12:00 Noon.
12:30 p.m. This month on History Counts: Manias, Panics and Crashes
  • We discuss financial crises from the Tulip Bubble of 1636 to the present debacle. What causes them and what can be done to lessen the damage? Our guest is Professor Robert Aliber, who revised and updated Charles Kindleberger's classic economic history, "Manias, Panics and Crashes"
This program is archived at www.historycounts.org. Interviewer: Ken MacDermotRoe Technical Director: BJ MacDermotRoe 1:00 p.m. Counterspin 1:30 p.m. Latino USA 2:00 p.m. The Quest with host Terry Hopper 5:30 p.m. WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service 6:00 p.m. Free Speech Radio News 6:30 p.m. Local News 6:35 p.m. Bob Shapiro, In the Evening 10:00 p.m. Ben Berry 2:00 a.m. Jose Colon , "Lounge Sounds" Technorati tags: ,