On the air Monday morning, Rachel Hunter and Darrell Brogdon encourage listeners to make a financial contribution to public radio. Rachel is KPR’s music director and is the morning classical music announcer. Darrell is program director for Kansas Public Radio and the host of “The Retro Cocktail Hour” on Saturday evenings. Day after day after …
Kansas Public Radio
Every day, the fine people at Kansas Public Radio, in partnership with National Public Radio, provide the best broadcasting that radio has to offer. Kansas Public Radio comes from Broadcasting Hall on the KU campus in Lawrence. Kansas Public Radio airs NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and NPR’s hourly news updates. People often tell …
Our Waterless River
This is the Arkansas River as seen from the Pawnee Rock bridge. I took this photo about a year ago. On Kansas Public Radio this morning, Rex Buchanan talked about Kansas’ Water Woes. Recently, Buchanan, who works for the Kansas Geological Survey, had the opportunity to tour Western and Central Kansas with some water experts …
More pancakes
The on-air version of this morning’s radio commentary, including the TV ad audio for Aunt Jemimah pancakes, is now posted on the KPR website. Click on the bottom row of buttons for the version which includes the intro/outro/music. The KPR guys surprised me with the harp music. We had talked about the possibility when I …
Turn Your Radio On
Tomorrow is not only Emporia’s 150th birthday, it’s also PANCAKE DAY! Yes, tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, when good Christians get their sins shriven. Now see, I would’ve thought the spell-checker would be all over “shriven,” but even though it sounds peculiar, it is actually a word – and my smarty-pants spell-checker knows it. (Shriven: to …
Sunflower Journeys
Sunflower Journeys is celebrating 20 years of telling stories about Kansas. This morning on Kansas Public Radio, Laura Lorson interviewed Dave Kendall, the person who created and shaped the program. He reports every week on Sunflower Journeys and if you watch the TV show, you’ll recognize Kendall’s voice immediately in the radio segment. Sunflower Journeys …
Online
This morning’s Kansas Day radio commentary can be heard here. And you can read along.
On the Radio – Wednesday
This just in… I’ll be on Kansas Public Radio Wednesday morning with a (pre-) Kansas Day commentary. The most likely times are 6:35 a.m. and (repeated at) 8:35 a.m. UPDATE: SOMETIME BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:00 AND SOMETIME BETWEEN 8:30 AND 9:00 You can listen online. Or hear it on the radio at: 89.7 – Emporia …