Did The First Lady Say It Before The Next First Lady?

7/19: “Your State U” with Max Page on how rising tuition sinks all boats; Foodies Unite– It’s “The Comedy Quiz” with culinary Quizmaster Sally Ekus, of The Lisa Ekus Group, trying to stump the Happier Valley Comedy Team of the Ha Ha’s Pam Victor & Laura Patrick –plus the ringer in the contestant pool—Monte Belmonte.

Frog & Toad & Jarring The Floor

7/18: A studio full of frogs and toads and their friend, a mouse: New Century Theatre–Kids presents “A Year with Frog and Toad,” which we preview with frog and toad friends Myka Plunkett, Kyle Boatwright, Nichole Wadleigh, Maya Rivera, Katie Sloan & Cate Damon. Then, “Jar the Floor,” a special, funny and moving edition of “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, the Rev-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, UMass Professor of Theatre and director of “Jar the Floor,” Gilbert McCauley, and acclaimed actor Shay Lamb.

Newman Lands Interview With God

7/15: Mass murder in Nice; Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni on the campaign to Save Our Schools; LGBT news with the LGBTJPJM Sorrell; Northampton-based, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on shooting (film) on the front lines of war and violence; “Oh God!” at the Chester Theatre –actor Will Lyman (he’s God) and Israeli Stage Producing Artistic Director Guy Ben-Aharon are our guests; Inside/Out with Arts correspondent Betsy Stone and special guests from A.P.E. Gallery — Kathy Couch and Lisa Thompson.

Radio Juggler

7.14.16 Buz Eisenberg guests hosts and talk with Sara Felder who will be bringing her revolutionary juggling to The Ko Fest. Plus, Lois Ahrens from The Real Cost of Prisons Project on new jails and new sheriffs.

The Pan Mass Challenge

7/13: The Pan-Mass Challenge with Judith Souweine and Dr. Ted Diamond; the Northampton Survival Center’s Heidi Nortonsmith and Amy Marsters preview the upcoming MarKamusic at Black Birch Vineyard; Sam Rush, Producing Director of New Century Theatre, on “Time Stands Still;” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz—speaking with her family in Puerto Rico about Zika and with us about the recent turmoil at the Northampton Human Rights Commission (of which she is the Chair).

Becoming Bobby

7/12: Award-winning Boston Globe reporter and best-selling author Larry Tye on “Bobby Kennedy The Making of a Liberal Icon;” Scott Seligman on “Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown;” Hampshire College professor and Five College professor of astronomy Salman Hameed on Jupiter and Juno and life in our solar system.

The Almighty As A Mushroom Cloud

7/11: Washington Post reporter Dan Zak, author of “Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age;” then “Your State U.” with ”PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on budget cuts, rising tuition and out-of state students; Greenfield author Serena Burdick on “Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris.”

Sing Out With Your Soul

7/8: LGBT JP JM Sorrell on the trans bill before Gov. Baker; Atty Luke Ryan on developments in the western Mass. drug lab scandal; Rock Voices—the community choir – really does rock- –a preview of the upcoming Summer of Soul concert with founder and master of the musical universe, Tony Lechner, and seven members* of the group; Sugar Shack Alliance organizers Paki Wieland and Irvine Sobelman on the upcoming confab and protest against the Kinder Morgan pipeline though Otis State Forest; then today’s and tonight’s artists on the streets of Northampton- Betsy Stone, Kathy Hession, & David Brewster.

*Penny Smith-Giguere., Lucy Garbus, Morgan Aronson, Joanne Grisanti, Brenda Barlow, Elazar Nudell, & Laura Davenport

The P.O. & The KO

7/7: The P.O.—“How the Post Office Created America,” the just-published book by our guest, New York Times best-selling author Winifred Gallagher; The KO—the Ko Festival returns—with the festival’s Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton.

Raggedy

7/6: Raggedy Ann is in the studio!! –with Marcella, Fido and Tom McCabe from Paint Box Theatre along with Myka Plunkett and Connor Paradis; Penny Burke, Executive Director, Northampton Center for the Arts on “En Plain Air” — back on the streets of Northampton; Vaya con Muniz with Natalia Munoz and National Lawyers Guild President Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan—America’s colonization of Puerto Rico continues.