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Programs & Archives – Spoken Word
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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.
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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.
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Behind the Curtain
Winnipeg is a vibrant city filled with a vast number of phenomenal performing artists. Behind the Curtain aims to bring a voice to these talented individuals and provide a glimpse to the behind the scenes workings of the world of the performing arts. Every week your host Ryan Wall interviews artists from a variety of disciplines. Including musicians,clowns, jugglers, magicians, and much more. This 30 minute spoken word program intends to inspire future performers and help develop Winnipeg’s performing arts community!
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Bikini Drive-In
Bikini Drive-In’s mission is to analyze horror and science fiction films through an intersectional feminist lens, while combining elements screen and media studies, arts criticism, and women and gender studies. Olivia and Jill’s knowledge and experience will hopefully provide listeners with access points to feminist theory, art history, and film critique while using horror and science fiction genres as a site of discourse.
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Cafecito Latinoamericano
This program features music of different Latin-American countries, and is a combination of music and spoken word. About half of the spoken word is in Spanish, with English translation. The objectives of the program are: a) to attract members of the Latin American community in Winnipeg; b) to encourage non-Spanish speakers to learn some Spanish; c) to share part of the Latin American cultures through music, news, and
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Femisphere
Femisphere Radio Collective is Winnipeg’s only feminist & social justice current events and news show. We air live every Thursday from 8-9am on CKUW 95.9FM
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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.
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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.
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Inner City Voices
A biweekly hour long show which will tell stories, discuss issues, share information, announce events and profile people of the inner city.
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Joke’s On You
Back after a brief hiatus with a brand new time-slot (Sunday 5pm-6:30pm), ‘Jokes on You’ connects listeners to the pathetic/hilarious existence of a wide array of stand up comedic talents. Locally focused, ‘Jokes on You’ is the only stand up comedy focused radio show in Winnipeg. Hosted by local rapscallion Jon Wilson, the program features different guests every week to talk about their stand up follies and whatever hot topics need the insight of a local jokester.
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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.
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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. .
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Movers and Makers
In this half hour every week we will meet the people who are making things happen, in this city and beyond.
People who are putting ideas into action. People who have a plan, people who make things or create things or who get their vision to you.
Your input is welcome! If you have any ideas for movers and makers that listeners would want to meet send them to me, at [email protected]
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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.
