WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Matt Murphy, edited by Amy Browne
Poets and storytellers recorded at the recent Word Festival in Blue Hill, Maine
FMI: wordfestival.org
Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, Tuesdays at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org
Producer/Editor/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Denis Howard
Audio recorded by Matt Murphy
In celebration of Earth week, today we talk with Peter Neill of the World Ocean Observatory about his new book, The Once and Future Ocean: Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society . Neill is the host of the weekly short feature “World Ocean Radio” which has aired here on WERU every Wednesday morning at 7:30 for several years. He is also the founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory
FMI: http://worldoceanobservatory.org/
But first we kick things off with a short montage of poetry from the “Poets Respond to Climate Change” event, at the Reversing Falls Sanctuary in Brooksville last month (recorded by Matt Murphy). In order we’ll hear from: Margaret Brooks, Maira Vandiver, MacKenzie Tapley, Henry Finch, Hattie Fitzpatrick, Emily Eisenhauer, Ed Conte, Brooke Wentworth and Anne Ferrara
Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Poetry
How do music and poetry collaborate? What is the Sardine Festival? How are family situations addressed in poetry?
Guests: Karin Spitfire, kspit@gwi.net, http://sardinesong.blogspot,com/ ; Barbara Maria, writecenter@gmail.com . The CD 108 Names ~ Poems to the Divine by Barbara Maria is available at iTunes and other digital music outlets.(http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/108-names-poems-to-the-divine/id346358204).
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Matt Murphy, Sylvia Smith, Willie Marqaurt
Segment 1: We continue our coverage of the rally for Single Payer Universal Health Care that was held in Augusta May 30th. FMI: www.mainehealthcarereform.org, Blog:http://medicare444all.blogspot.com/
(The first 2 hours of audio from the rally aired on Weekend Voices the last 2 Saturdays. Those programs are also archived on this site.)
WERU is holding a Public Forum called “Single Payer: Fact vs. Fiction” at the Alamo Theater on Tuesday evening June 23rd from 6-8p.m. A panel of speakers will include those for and those against the Single Payer option. Audience members will be encouraged to comment and ask questions, and the event will be broadcast live. Admission is free
Segment 2: Matt Murphy talks with one of the organizers of Poetry Downeast’s inaugural Open mic and Reading at the Grind in Ellsworth, on Wednesday, June 24th, 7-9p.m. FMI: bowenswersey@gmail.com, 207-469-7328
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Marge May, Judi Beach, Karen Larsen
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Segment 1: Produced by Marge May. An interview with Riane Eisler, author of “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”. She was recently featured on New Dimensions, and spoke with WERU’s Marge May in March 2008
Segment 2: Produced by Amy Browne. We talk with Bruce Gagnon, a local peace activist and one of the leaders in the new group “Mainers for Cynthia McKinney”. The group is showing a film about McKinney in Blue Hill next week. FMI: mainers4mckinney.org
Segment 3: Karen Larsen with some reflections on the summer solstice.
Segment 4: 2 poems by Judi Beach—long time WERU volunteer who passed away in April. Thanks to her friend Karen Larsen—the former host of EarthTones, the show in which Judi’s Poetry Pantry aired—we now have several of her poems up on the WERU archives. These are “Eve Rethinks Eden” and “Beginning with lines by Neruda”. You can hear more of Judi Beach’s poetry at the WERU archives