Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon
We speak with Jonathan Lee about his historical novel The Great Mistake. It’s about the man who’s called “The Father of Greater New York,” Andrew Haswell Green.
Then, Michael Mechanic takes us on a tour into the lives of the super-rich and what their astronomic wealth says about America. His book is Jackpot.
Monday, July 11 at 10:00 PM.
First Voices Indigenous Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s guest this week on First Voices Radio is Joe Pitowanakwat, an Anishinaabe learner and educator. His Creators Garden is an outdoor-education-based business dedicated to learning and teaching about the uses of hundreds of plants from Canada’s Great Lakes region. It has conducted extensive programming in over 100 Indigenous communities and over 150 different Institutions throughout Canada and the US, focusing on optimizing human health using mainly medicinal plants but also through various other traditional practices.
Tuesday, July 12 at 12:00 noon.
Jim Motavalli
9:00 PM Interview with the outstanding singer-songwriter Brennen Leigh about her album with Asleep at the Wheel, “Obsessed With the West.” It’s a great work of new country-swing music in the style of Bob Wills.
10 PM, a pre-recorded interview with the Israeli jazz bassist Avishai Cohen—not to be confused with the other Avishai Cohen, who plays trumpet. The bass player has a powerful new trio album out with young players, “Shifting Sands.”
Tuesday evening July 12.
Tidings from Hazel Kahan
In this month’s Tidings from Hazel Kahan, her guest is Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian analyst, founder and director of the Assisi Institute and author of numerous books and articles, who also has also has a private practice in Mystic, Ct. He discusses a talk he gave last week to a worldwide audience titled “Slaughter of the Innocents: an archetypal understanding of the tragedy of school shootings,” the second webinar in the Assisi Institute’s new theme of Crimes Against Humanity. Drawing on religious, psychological and cultural sources, Conforti shares his understanding of why America leads the world in school killings and offers a possible approach to bring this understanding to the country’s leaders.
Wednesday, July 13 at 6:30 AM (repeated at 8:00 PM) and archived.