During National Poetry Month Bill Jaker welcomes poet Leslie Heywood – professor of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University, whose newest collection of poems is “Lost Arts” – and Nicole Santalucia, director of The Binghamton Poetry Project workshops, with new poems by local authors
To join in the conversation call during the live 1:00 PM broadcast to 888/359-9754. Send comments, questions or poems you've written to OffThePage@WSKG.ORG.
During National Poetry Month, Bill Jaker welcomes poet Leslie Heywood, professor of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University, whose newest collection of poems is Lost Arts. Also, hear from Nicole Santalucia, director of The Binghamton Poetry Project workshops
A live broadcast of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. Luisi will lead three complete cycles of Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Met this season in honor of the composer’s bicentennial, with each of the four operas receiving a worldwide radio broadcast. Das Rheingold, the first opera in the cycle, will feature company role debuts by Mark Delavan as Wotan and Meredith Arwady as Erda. Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Stefan Margita (Loge), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), and Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia) reprise their acclaimed portrayals from previous Ring cycles at the Met.
On this episode of the TED Radio Hour, hear Denis Dutton's “A Darwinian Theory of Beauty”; Nancy Etcoff's “Happiness And Its Surprises”; Cameron Russell's “Looks Aren’t Everything. Believe Me, I’m a Model”; Bill Strickland's “Rebuilding America, One Side Show At A Time.”; and Richard Seymour's “How Beauty Feels”.
The TED Radio Hour returns! In the first new episode, we try so hard to be perfect, to never make mistakes and to avoid failure at all costs. But mistakes happen - and when they do - how do we deal with being wrong? In this episode, TED speakers look at those darker moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on.
Each episode of TED Radio Hour includes excerpts from the renowned TED stage, where some of the world's deepest thinkers and innovators are invited to give the 18-minute talk of their lives. But we don't stop with the TED Talks - host Guy Razz interviews the guests, delving deeper, dissecting the speaker's ideas, and posing probing questions you'd like to hear answered.
TED Radio Hour airs Thursdays at 1:00pm and 7:00pm on WSKG Radio.
The Yankees spooked the Pirates to a loss in the 1927 World Series?Tinker to Evers to Chance were the greatest of all double-play trios?Abbott & Costello are in the Baseball Hall of Fame? Baseball is replete with legends, and Bill Deane of Cooperstown researched hundreds of them for his book Baseball Myths: Debating, Debunking and Disproving Tales from the Diamond.
Author Michael Pollan gives some simple advice: Don't eat anything your great-greatgrandmother wouldn't recognize as food. But making food choices in 2013 isn’t always that easy - or is it? Join a conversation on Deconstructing Food.
In the 1990s autism rates around the US began to rise. Each year since then thousands of California children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Now, these children are “aging out” of school-based special education programs.
They are the first generation of adults with autism spectrum disorders to be diagnosed early enough to participate in these programs for most of their school years. Once they turn 22, they’re no longer eligible. It will be left to them and their families to find the employment, education, housing and other services they need to live as independently as possible for the rest of their lives.
Each of them enters adulthood with a unique combination of social, behavioral and communication deficits that promises an unusually challenging life. Depending on the severity of the disorder, they may or may not be able to live independently, find a job, go to college, date or marry.
The View From Here: Autism Grows Up follows four adults with autism who are aiming for a life of choice and opportunity.
Program website here
On April 1st, By Special Invitation features a concert by the LA Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel. In addition to Ravel's Pavane and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the broadcast features the world premiere performance of Cornell professor Steven Stucky's Symphony.
Every day in America, more than 7,000 students drop out of school. In a State of the Re:Union first, this episode combines radio drama and documentary to explore America’s dropout epidemic through the intimate story of one man’s attempt to make a difference in the lives of a group of high-risk kids. Based on the celebrated off-broadway show by SOTRU host Al Letson, this episode chronicles Letson’s journey teaching at a summer camp at the Sanctuary on 8th Street, a community center in an economically challenged neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida.
