Today on KRPS for Saturday June 24, 2023
5 AM - On The Media - Also heard Sunday at 5 pm
HOST: BROOKE GLADSTONE
The Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
On June 16, famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92. Ellsberg became one of the most influential whistleblowers in history after he leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971.
The secret 7000-page history of US involvement in Vietnam, going back decades, revealed presidents and officials of both parties lying to the public and lying to each other.
6 AM - Fresh Air Weekend -
HOST: TONYA MOSLEY
INTERVIEWS BY TONYA MOSLEY & TERRY GROSS
Writer and historian SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY. He’s written a new book about the family of the late rapper Tupac Shakur -- titled “An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and The Nation They Created.”
CHRISTIAN COOPER became famous in 2020 for a scene he captured on video in Central park, while birdwatching.
KEN TUCKER reviews Janelle Monae’s new album The Age of Pleasure.
7 AM - 9 AM Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon - (Miles Park in fore Scott)
9 AM - Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me…. Also heard Sunday afternoon at 4.
HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Bill Kurtis
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Karen Allen
PANELISTS: Negin Farsad, Roy Blount Jr., and Karen Chee
NOT MY JOB: Indiana Jones star Karen Allen plays a game about pink lemonade.
10 AM - Radiolab -
Radiolab - Love Is In the Air
Love is in the air as we take to the skies this week, following a group of seagulls from the 1970s that rocked our understanding of what's natural in animals, and in us.
Then, High above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America's most patriotic creatures.
11 AM - TED Radio Hour -
The Rhythm and Rhyme of Memory
For decades, Rosanne Cash has soared through the ranks of music with her powerhouse poetic skills and wistful reflections on her past.
This hour, we explore Rosanne's life & legacy through her music.
12 PM - This American Life - Episode 801 - Also heard Sunday at 2 pm
Greetings, People Of Earth
Intelligent being, human or otherwise, making first contact.
1PM - Freakonomics Radio -Episode 1243
Host - Stephen Dubner
Are E.S.G. investors actually helping the environment? Probably not.
The economist Kelly Shue argues that E.S.G. investing just gives more money to firms that are already green while depriving polluting firms of the financing they need to get greener. But she has a solution.
2 PM - Milk Street Radio - Episode 502
Host - Christopher Kimball
True Stories: Restaurant Disasters, Crazy Chefs, and Angry Mobsters
This week, we share stories from the world of fine dining. Maître d' Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has encounters with mobsters, fainting celebrities and unruly guests at New York’s top restaurants and reveals the secrets to great service
3 PM - Listening to America - Formerly The Thomas Jefferson Hour -
Episode 4 -
Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic
Host - Clay Jenkinson
This week, Clay Jenkinson and regular Listening to America correspondent Lindsay Chervinsky talk about moments when the first president, George Washington, may have been tempted to drop the mic - if such a technology had existed in his time.
We discuss Washington's response to the Newburgh Conspiracy, Washington showing up at the Continental Congress in uniform before they had appointed him Commander in Chief, Washington's Farewell Address, and Washington's gift of a basket of figs when Colonel Hamilton was beset by a sex scandal.
4 PM - The New Yorker Radio Hour -
Host - David Remnick
A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling to move across state lines.
This spring, Witt visited the clinic’s new home in Moorhead, Minnesota. A parking lot now shields patients from angry protesters, but North Dakota patients are increasingly fearful, afraid even to cross the state line into Minnesota for an abortion.
5 PM - 7 PM Mountain Stage -
Host - Kathy Mattea
Headliner - Dustbowl Revival
7 AM - 9 PM American Routes -
Host - Nick Spitzer
Rockabilly Rascal Chuck Mead & Heralding the Folk with Alice Gerrard
Chuck Mead, co-founder of the legendary Nashville country rock band, BR549 tells tales of being born into a Kansas family of musicians with their own radio show and infiltrating his way into a whole new Nashville underground music, bar and dance scene.
Then, conversation with Alice Gerrard, musician, advocate for old time music and known for her collaboration with West Virginia native Hazel Dickens as a rare female bluegrass duo in the 1960s. Plus music from Bob Dylan, Wanda Jackson, The Balfa Brothers and Johnny Shines.
9 PM - Soulsations -
Groovin' Summer Sounds
It's groovin’ tunes all hour long on Soulsations, including new sounds, “As a Matter of Fact” by writer/producer/singer Babyface. He was recently featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert.
Also, new gospel, “Gotta Believe”, by Tasha Cobbs Leonard, classic tunes from Johnny “Guitar” Watson, The Brother’s Johnson, and a perineal summertime groove by Sly and the Family Stone.
Plus, the fun sounds of Jon Batiste, Cimafunk, and we’ll “Float On” with The Floaters. We’ll also journey to “Love Land” on this week DoubleTake by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and a jammin’ version by Tower of Power.
10 PM - Blue Dimensions -
Host - Johnny Meister
"Kemet (The Black Land)" - Javier Nero visits an ancient time and place with his music
"Kemet (The Black Land)" the second album from the Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, and music from the debut album of trumpeter Anthony Hervey "Words From My Horn.
11 PM - Notes From The Jazz Underground - Episode 222
Host - Paul Abella
Celebrating Prides, NFTJU Style
We're getting ready for Pride celebrations across the country this week by checking out some music from a few of Jazz's LGBTQ icons from past and present, with music from Gary Burton, Cecil Taylor, Billy Strayhorn, Terri Lyne Carrington and more!
