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Thursday Night Special
Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Jasmine Jones hosts Next Step Forward, a spotlight on millennials of Kansas City who are within a marginalized group, but are using their talents, business, activism etc. to help bring positivity within their communities. This program exists to be a place that is inclusive, safe, fun, inspirational and educational not only for the listeners but for the guest as well.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre; hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night. In 2023 SITN has received seven awards for podcast productions in the 9th Annual Hear Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Third Thursday: People Power Hour, brought to you by KC Tenants, hosts a rotation of speakers featuring members and leaders from KC Tenants and other tenant unions across the country to analyze, inform, and inspire listeners about the power of tenant unions in America. Every episode will showcase a different lesson about tenant unions and America's problematic history with housing by providing in-depth historical analysis, testimonials and stories from leaders who organized in their communities, and collectively brainstorming a vision for a better world where housing is treated as a human right.
Fourth Thursday: Sirisha Naidu and Taki Manolakos host Economics For the People, a journey to explore the transformative power of economics when it is harnessed for the working classes, to advance social justice, and to create an inclusive and equitable society. It is an open invitation to participate in collectively shaping and reimagining an economy that prioritizes the needs and aspirations of the working classes, marginalized communities, and individuals of different gender expressions, sexualities, and abilities. The show features diverse voices, experiences and perspectives that often remain unheard in mainstream conversations about economics, markets and numbers.
Fifth Thursday: The provocative "From Ark to Microchip", produced by Dwight Frizzell, mixes commentary, dramatic re-enactment, original music, historic voices, audio art and sound effects in a pan-historical, pan-cultural milieu. Programs in the program series have received several awards.
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the start of WWI we present this special rebroadcast: A Shortcut through the 20th Century-an impressionistic glance back at the last one hundred years, featuring the major events, inventions and discoveries; the rise & fall of Communism, the crash of stock market,the suffragette and civil rights movements, the World Wars, the holocaust and the birth of the atomic age, electricity and mass production. Eyewitnesses include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Homer Simpson, the Amazing Crispin, Winston Churchill, Charlton Heston, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Richard Belzer, Tom Brokaw, Regis Philbin, Hank Hill, Bela Legosi, Boomhauer, Orson Welles, Peggy & Bobby Hill, John Hurt, Rod Sterling, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Buster Keaton, Anne Dudley, Paul Morley, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Una O’Connor, Judy Garland, Admiral Byrd, Teddy Roosevelt, Eubie Blake, Quentin Crisp, Moondog, Guglielmo Marconi, Steve Berkowitz, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maureen Stapleton, M. Emmet Walsh, Will Durant, Kenneth Chamberlain, Art Shields, John Howard, Ronald Coleman, George Jessell, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Arnold Lucy, Henry Miller, Bill Murray, Dora Russell, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Emmanuel Herbert, Gloria Swanson, Dolph Sweet, Lowell Thomas, Violet Bochan, Herbert Hoover, James Cagney, Ginger Rogers, Will Rogers, George Raft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Mickey & Minnie Mouse, Chico & Groucho Marx, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Paul Muni, Preston Foster, Walter Winchell, Babe Ruth, Beavis & Butthead, Lorraine Bracco, R. Crumb, Lee DeForrest, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Fred Flintstone, Marlon Brando, Tarzan, Levi Stubbs, the Beatles, Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson, Maureen O’Sullivan, Clayton Moore, Allen Ginsberg, Rudolph Hess, Howdy Doody, Austin Powers, The Elephant Man, Muhammed Ali, Bill Clinton, Yoko Ono, Ezra Pound, William S. Burroughs, Robert Armstrong, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the Mayor of Hiroshima, Harry Truman, Lewis Hill, William Mandel, IF Stone, Paul Robeson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Adlai Stevenson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dan Quayle, Ross Perot, George Bush, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson, Lloyd Benson, Jim Carrey, Edward R. Murrow, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Brian Lamb, Elvis Presley, Harry Landers, Darren Dublin, Jack Kerouac, David Rapkin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, Che Guevarra, Chris Koch, Malcolm X, Karen Roston, Paolo Conte, Malachy McCourt, Joe Jackson, Peter Bergman, Arnold Roston, Heather Donahue, Bill St. James and various callers from New York City to Seattle, Washington
Produced by Peter Bochan
