Accessibility Matters
Join your host BBS for a 30 minute discussion of accessibility issues in and around our community, including technology reviews.
Programs & Archives – Spoken Word
-
-
After Thought
After Thought dives deep on topics of the day while providing compelling and entertaining commentary.
-
Alternative Radio
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
-
Amateur Hour
Where bad is good and worse is better. Amateur Hour features the best of the worst. Artists and bands that never got their fair share of airtime for how seemingly weird, aweful or cheesy they are will finally get their due. Tune in every week to outsider artists, celeb singers, and novelty bands square off in a battle for amateur supremacy.
-
Behind The News
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
-
Bikini Drive-In
Horror and feminism on the radio. Bikini Drive-In’s mission is to analyze horror and science fiction films through an intersectional feminist lens, while combining elements of screen and media studies, arts criticism, and women and gender studies.
-
Bridging the Gap
“Bridging the Gap” was created to help us grow in understanding and compassion, to challenge the division across the planet with the goal of Unity.
-
CanQueer
With a combined Radio experience of over 15 years the Can Queer executive team bring together the top LGBT community talk radio show in Canada!
Also an online radio show that is both engaging, entertaining and also plugged into GLBT issues and politics across the country.
The CanQueer takes content from many people, with a team of contributors numbering over a dozen. We are subject to an editorial team, and we strive to maintain the highest of standards.
-
CheezePleeze
Since 2002 Internet radio fans around the world have been tuning in with delight and disgust to Cheeze Pleeze, hosted by Snarfdude and by first Moondog, and now currently, Daffodil. Each week the duo drops an irreverent mix of alternative cuts, celebrity oddities, novelty tunes and remakes sure to shock awe entertain and even baffle listeners.
-
Cross-Canada Comedeorological Report
Comedy + Meteorology = Comedeorology. Join country music mountain man Joey Only and the famous Frankie MacDonald as they talk to all sorts of weather personalities and friends across Canada on all things weather and wilderness. Every episode people check in from all over North America, it’s your hour every week to hear all sorts of news on just how much the weather sucks in Canada. Show now airs in Prince George, Vancouver and Winnipeg. New episodes go up every Friday on Joey Only’s YouTube channel and we’d love to keep growing.
-
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts.
-
Eat Your Arts & Vegetables
Eat Your Arts & Vegetables presents guests of diverse backgrounds and perspectives ranging from local self taught artists to internationally renowned interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary artists. The show’s mandate offers artists, curators, art academics, cultural workers and organizations a resource to promote their work and ideas in conjunction with current local art events.
-
Global Research News Hour
Hosted and produced by CKUW News Director and contributor, Michael Welch, in association with the Centre for Research on Globalization, the Global Research News Hour is a one hour analysis of major developments in the world of economics, politics and geo-politics, with researchers and news makers from around the world. If you want to get the story beyond the headlines, strap yourself in for 60 minutes of informative and provocative radio.
-
GroundWire
GroundWire aims to connect diverse communities that take part in community radio programming all over Canada by featuring stories that are local, regional and national in scope and that share an ethic of human rights activism, equity, labour rights, democractic communication and information exchange, and progressive political and social policy.
-
Letters: A Radio Play
Letters is a radio play written by local playwright Brian Langlotz. It’s inspired by real events of World War II, featuring those of the playwright’s family members who served as soldiers in that conflict. Come follow the journey of Paul Bailey, played by Jordan Phillips, a Canadian soldier fighting his way through Italy during World War II, and his wife Betty, portrayed by Elizaveta Katykhina, waiting for him to return, as told through the letters they send each other.
This special production was recorded and produced at CKUW 95.9FM.
-
MonkeySparrow
The MonkeySparrow brings you original Stories based on This City & Elsewhere, Essays & Letters that are attempts to comprehend the Insignificant & Too Large, and Music from a juxtaposistic collection of Known, Old, Answered & Fated. Hosted by hannah_g with occasional guest writers and music lovers.
To listen to previous shows on your smart phone or tablet, please visit www.hannah-g.com/the-monkeysparrow. .
-
Mud Puddle Radio
Mud puddle radio is a radio program that is directed mainly at children between the ages of 3 and 8, but is fun for everyone. Each show will have a child co-hosting the show and will discuss music, books, events, etc.
-
No Fixed Address
Spoken word focused on lived experiences of homelessness, hosted by Al Wiebe.
