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This Week’s Programs
May 4-10, 2025
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Daily on Weekdays
Democracy Now w/Amy Goodman
10:00-11:00 am Monday through Friday
6:00-7:00 pm Monday through Thursday; 7:00 -8:00 pm on Friday
Sunday
Classical Hour with Gary Alexander
2-3 pm
This Week: Today marks the conclusion (part 5) of the “Tale of Two Sergei’s: The End Game”: Serge Rachmaninov writes “Variations on a Theme by Paganini” (1934) and his Piano Concerto #4 (debuted in 1941) in the comforts of California, donating the proceeds of his early 1940s concerts (he died in 1943) to the Russian war victims, while Serge Prokofiev has been trapped in the Soviet Union since 1936. This week, we feature his war-time Symphony #5 (1944) followed by his postwar resignation to state censorship in “Winter Bonfire” (1950) before dying on the same day as his tormentor Stalin (March 5, 1953), a palindrome date, 3-5-53.
New Dimensions
4:00 pm (repeats Tuesday at 7 pm)
New Dimensions Media: Changing the World One Broadcast at a Time. Explores subjects such as social, political, scientific, ecological, and spiritual frontiers through in-depth dialogues.
This Week: Empathy: Bridging The Divide Of Polarizing Conversations Edwin Rutsch
For over a decade, Edwin Rutsch has hitchhiked, bicycled, traveled and worked his way around our precious planet. He interacted with a wide variety of cultures and peoples from all walks of life and learned to see and feel a common humanity shared by people around the world. During his explorations he came to see the importance of empathy in human connections
Spirit in Action – Lopez Edition
5:00 pm
These radio programs are prepared by Mark Judkins Helpsmeet under the care of Eau Claire Quakers and sponsored for KLOI by the Lopez Island Quaker Group. ‘Spirit In Action’ brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, peace, community, and compassion.
This Week: Harvard’s DEI Refusal & Their Joyful Ex-Prisoner Chaplain: John Bach
President Trump has been wreaking havoc in so many corners of our country, including the disruption caused by his executive order to dismantle all DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) programs throughout the country. Harvard has been the most prominent school to refuse the order, causing joy & celebration among many. Today we’re talking with John Bach about Harvard’s policies and ethics from his perspective as a Harvard chaplain. As a Quaker, John’s credentials are experiential instead of academic or educational, including his work with the Civil Rights movement, his time in prison as a draft refuser, and his work as a house painter. John is also author of Short Time: A Season’s Prison Journal, around John’s short stint in prison for civil disobedience.
Midnight Special
10:00-12:00
The world’s weekly aberration of folk music and farce, show tunes, and satire, madness, and escape.
Monday
WINGS – Women’s International News Gathering Service
2:00 pm
A weekly radio news and current affairs program by and about women worldwide.
This Week: Sophie Njoka, activist journalist
Sophie Njoka is a journalist in Mombasa, Kenya, and a cofounder of the organization Article 27, named for a section of Kenya’s constitution. The group is comprised of female journalists and women human rights defenders. They work together to expose and seek to rectify rights violations, including violations of women journalists’ rights.
Joy Spring with Gary Alexander
3:00-6:00 pm
This Week: In the opening hour, we’ll sample the top 10 most recorded songs written by Rodgers & Hart, all in the last decade (1934-43) of their 23-year partnership, honoring Lorenz Hart’s birthday last Friday (May 2, 1895), then we will play the top four songs written J. Fred Coots, born two years later, May 2, 1897. In the remaining two hours, we’ll play the complete contents of the two most popular (best-selling) jazz albums of all time, interweaving their stories. Both were totally improvised and almost weren’t made at all. First came Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (1959), based on asking his sextet to improvise on modal scales provided in the studio. It didn’t sell well at first but it caught on gradually and sold an average 100,000 per year from the 1960s on, amassing over five million in sales. The second best-selling album was a popular craze in the mid-1970s, Keith Jarrett’s long improvised solo piano excursions, this one in Cologne, Germany, January 24, 1975, on a small piano he didn’t like and almost boycotted the concert until the teenage girl who produced the concert prevailed on his better angels (the subject of a new German-language movie this year, “Koln ‘75”). The Cologne Concert sold four million copies.
Brittany to the Balkans and Beyond w/Stanley Greenthal
8:00 – 9:30 pm
Compelling Celtic and Balkan music from diverse regions of the world, mixed with occasional spoken word pieces to illuminate the traditions from which the music originates.
This Week: Selections from our show archives.
Tuesday
Backyard Conservation with Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy
1:00 pm
Local researchers Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy talk about the things that each of us can do in our own lives and around our own homes to take better care of the plants and animals that make our island special.
This Month: Resolutions for 2025
Living Life — Music with John Garcia
3:00 pm
DJ John plays heartfelt global music emphasizing Spanish and Latino songs.
New Dimensions
7:00 pm (repeat from Sunday 4:00 pm)
Wednesday
The Grand Southern Vocal & Plectrophonic Review w/Lance Brittain
5:00 am
Lance presents a show covering early to contemporary folk, country, and bluegrass, plus some discussion of historical context, including news of current events in the bluegrass and folk community. From an acoustic perspective, Lance explores other early influences, including classic early jazz, blues, ragtime, border music, etc.
This Week: Selections from our show archives. Please note that any dates mentioned are from previous shows and are not current.
The FAT Music Show w/Felton Pruitt
2:00 pm (repeat Friday 6:00 pm)
The FAT Music Show is a friendly nod to the much-adored 1970’s radio station KFAT in Gilroy, California, which was one of the first national radio stations to feature the Americana musical genre prominently. Hosted by Felton Pruitt, a 30+year radio veteran with stints that include KFAT, XM Satellite, and KVMR; Pruitt includes classic and contemporary interviews (”Chewin’ The Fat”) and live, or in-studio performances from his personal recording archives.
Way Out of Zee Box with Zee Jacquelope
3:00-5:00 pm
Featuring selections from a massive and eclectic music collection of his own, spanning several entertaining forms of music from several genres.
The Grand Southern Vocal & Plectrophonic Review w/Lance Brittain
7:00 pm (Repeats next Wednesday at 5:00 am)
Lance presents a show covering early to contemporary folk, country, and bluegrass, plus some discussion of historical context, including news of current events in the bluegrass and folk community. From an acoustic perspective, Lance explores other influences, including classic early jazz, blues, ragtime, border music, etc.
This Week: Selections from our show archives. Please note that any dates mentioned are from previous shows and are not current.
Thursday
Song of the Soul – Lopez Edition
12:00 pm
These radio programs are prepared by Mark Judkins Helpmeet under the care of the Eau Claire Quakers and sponsored for KLOI by the Lopez Island Quaker Group. ‘Song of Soul’ invites you to a soul-level encounter. Music has the ability to proclaim the soul’s language beyond what mere words can speak. Some guests are musicians, perhaps sharing their own music, but most guests are simply sharing the music they’ve been impacted by, written, and performed by others.
This Week: A Special Case – Tim Case’s Musical Quest for Heart-opening Truth
I first interviewed Tim Case early in 2024, after the release of his Great Big Moon EP, a reemergence of his music after more than a decade on the back-burner, but then he turned right around and released his new album, House of Mirrors, just recently. Before leaving Madison, Tim was on the cusp of music success as part of Ghost Town Council, but now he performs mostly solo, though also collaborating with Songa (Mario & Sherry Friedel), and with members of the Chippewa Valley Songwriter Circle, among others. Tim’s musical quest is for truth, accessed through heart-opening music & he does it well.
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast, hosted by Paul Vogelzang,
This week: Baseball legend. Vaudeville star. Hollywood actor. Brawler. Lover. Icon.
Mike Donlin had it all—talent, fame, a fiery temper, and a love story that changed his life. He walked away from baseball at his peak for the stage, only to face tragedy and reinvention.
Join us on KLOI Radio with our guest, award-winning author Steven Steinberg, as we uncover Donlin’s wild, forgotten journey from the diamond to the spotlight.
Listen on KLOI!
Open to Debate
7:00 pm
Together we have an opportunity to reclaim and reshape debate – a crucial aspect of our democracy. Through balanced perspectives and the respectful open-minded exchange of ideas with global thought leaders, Open to Debate is empowering listeners to consider other points of view and make more informed decisions on the critical issues of our times.
This Week: Think Twice: The Stoic Capitalist with Robert Rosenkranz
Stoic philosophers like Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius taught that clarity of thought and emotional detachment are the keys to self-mastery, leading to a life of virtue, tranquility, and wisdom. One person who has applied these principles to his life and work as an investor, philanthropist, and public intellectual is Robert Rosenkranz, chairman of Delphi Capital Management and founder of Open to Debate. From modest beginnings to a distinguished career in business and ideas, Rosenkranz has used their wisdom to navigate challenges, innovations, and key relationships. In this conversation, host John Donvan speaks with Rosenkranz about his new book, “The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious,” how ancient philosophy shaped pivotal moments in his life, why he launched Open to Debate, and how disciplined thinking and purposeful action can unlock enduring and wide-ranging accomplishment and serve as a guide for anyone seeking success and a life well lived.
eTown
8:00 pm
eTown is an exciting weekly radio broadcast heard from coast to coast on NPR and public and commercial stations. Every eTown show is taped in front of a live audience. It features performances from many of today’s top musical artists, as well as conversations and information about the world around us.
This Week: Join us this week as we share more conversations and artists’ performances
Friday
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn
8:00 am
An eclectic mix of music curated by the producer, composer, and recording artist Ben Vaughn.
Rock, blues, jazz, folk, soul, R & B, country, bossa nova, movie soundtracks, easy listening, and more, all peppered with Vaughn’s twisted musicological slant.
WINGS – Women’s International News Gathering Service
12:00 pm (repeat from Monday at 2:00 pm)m
A weekly radio news and current affairs program by and about women worldwide.
Classical Hour w/Gary Alexander
2-3 pm
This Week: There are two specific dates in the Spring when two of the top 10 or 15 classical music composers were born on the same date. The first is March 31 (for Bach and Handel), and May 7 is the other (for Brahms and Tchaikovsky), so today we’ll honor these two symphonic giants by playing highlights from their final three symphonies – Brahms’ 2nd, 3rd and 4th (composed 1877 to 1885) and Tchaikovsky’s 4th, 5th and 6th (composed 1877 to 1893). Brahms is seven years older than Old Pete, but Brahms waited a long time to compose his first symphony due to the ponderous shadow (he felt) from Beethoven’s legacy.
Joy Spring w/Gary Alexander
3-6 pm
Classic Jazz and the Great American Songbook
This Week: We begin with four songs featuring May in the title, beginning with Hoagy Carmichael’s “One Morning in May” then we will launch into some May composer birthdays, most notably our debut of “Manhattan Tower” composed by Gordon Jenkins (born May 12, 1910), as narrated and sung by Canadian-born Robert Goulet, from our “G” box of old 1964 LPs. We’ll follow with more movie music by Jenkins, Max Steiner (born May 10, 1888) and Dmitri Tiomkin (May 10, 1894). At 4:00, we’ll survey the movie magic made by Russian émigré Irving Berlin (born May 11, 1888) and a singer/dancer from the Austrian Austerlitz family, Fred Astaire (born May 10, 1899). Another movie and pop composer worth a nod is Burt Bacharach (born May 12, 1928), dying last year at age 96. In the 5:00 hour, we profile the centennial of the birth of tenor sax giant (and comic singer) James Moody, sampling his 80th birthday celebration at the Blue Note Jazz club on March 26, 2005, followed by a dip into the end of our “G” box of LPs with guitarist David Grisman and other Great Guitars.
The FAT Music Show w/Felton Pruitt
6:00 pm (repeat of Wednesday 2:00 pm)
Democracy Now w/Amy Goodman
7:00 -8:00 pm
The Grateful Dead Hour
8:00 pm
Since 1985 David Gans has hosted a nationally syndicated weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of the Grateful Dead. The show features exclusive interviews, music from the roots and branches of the band’s musical family tree, and many unreleased live and studio recordings.
Saturday
West Coast Live
10:00 am -12:00 am
From the Archives… West Coast Live is no longer broadcasting its show. KLOI is airing selected shows from their archives.
This Week: Recorded this week throughout the Bay and beyond, Sedge welcomes:
JANE SMILEY, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and Some Luck with the second in The Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning.
JAN ELLISON brings us her debut novel A Small Indiscretion, an emotional thriller about one woman’s reckoning with a youthful mistake.
REV BILLY and Dragonfly, a member of his Stop Shopping Choir, on their international tour aimed at defending community, life and imagination.
And More!
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast, hosted by Paul Vogelzang,
This week: Baseball legend. Vaudeville star. Hollywood actor. Brawler. Lover. Icon.
Mike Donlin had it all—talent, fame, a fiery temper, and a love story that changed his life. He walked away from baseball at his peak for the stage, only to face tragedy and reinvention.
Join us on KLOI Radio with our guest, award-winning author Steven Steinberg, as we uncover Donlin’s wild, forgotten journey from the diamond to the spotlight.
Listen on KLOI!
Open Mike (or Random playlist)
4:00-6:00 pm
Putumayo World Music Hour
7:00 pm
Hosted by Putumayo’s CEO and Founder Dan Storper and KFOG personality Rosalie Howarth, the Putumayo World Music Hour is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures, now heard internationally on more than 170 commercial stations around the world.
This Week: Spotlight on Italy
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn
8:00 pm
An eclectic mix of music curated by the producer, composer, and recording artist Ben Vaughn. Rock, blues, jazz, folk, soul, R & B, country, bossa nova, movie soundtracks, easy listening, and more.
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