Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ve got another special episode today in support of WFHB’s Spring Fund Drive. Donate Here. Today’s episode is Part 2 of of our special highlights show, “The Past of US.” Again, we’ll hear from three of our local authors who have read their own work for us: …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ve got a special episode today in support of WFHB’s Spring Fund Drive. We need you to donate money to support programming that is community-oriented and produced by volunteers who are members of the community. Speaking of Stories is about as local as it gets. I’ll tell …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor today’s show, episode 50 if you’re keeping track, we return to a Bloomington treasure, author Scott Russell Sanders. We’ll feature two essays from Sanders’ 2012 collection, Earth Works: the first is “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” and that will be followed by “Buckeye.” In …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s episode features two stories By Carolyn Geduld, “The Protestor” and “Rabbit.” Carolyn Geduld writes what she terms psychological fiction: fiction which forefronts the protagonist’s motivation, especially unconscious motivation, stemming from childhood trauma or influences. The impetus for “The Protestor” was the Black Lives Matter protests. Her …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe are listening to two pieces: “The Witness” and “Regulations,” written and read by Glenda Breeden. “The Witness” is based on a story that Glenda heard directly from a mother who witnessed the execution of her child. She was never able to unhear it. “Regulations” gives voice …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we present two pieces written and read by Jane Goodman: “Apple, Table, Penny” and “Telling.” Early in the illness, sometimes it was just a matter of him using an odd word, but you could still make out his meaning. In the car, going to pick up …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreGladys DeVane uses dialogue, colloquialisms, setting and a well-researched contextual understanding of place and time to bring the past alive. And, when history can be made to come alive, it can shed some light on the present. “A Strange Day” is based on stories about what it …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More 1971: How We Won is part memoir, part history, part instructional manual: how one person, or a small group of people make a difference. We must keep going. We must continue to fight for change right here at home; this is the best chance we have …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEpisode 44 of SoS is an excerpt from The Last Round Up, book four in The Lee Kosak Mystery Series, by Ray Zdonek. Lee Kosak saved the homeless man’s life once, but now his body has been found in the Beachcomber’s parking lot, the victim of an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“Into Kansas,” by Shayne Laughter, grew out of letters and fictionalized memoirs left by her grandfather that sketched the experiences of his father, her great grandfather. The story is a part of Echo: A Novel in Nine Stories and a Lake. Laughter took those notes and with …
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