Latest Programs
Dec. 9, 2007, 7:17 p.m.
Talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"
AMBIANCE CONGO: December 9, 2007
Dec. 9, 2007, 6:31 p.m.
Two hours of Congolese music.
Every other Sunday 3:00-5:00 PM
Dec. 9, 2007, 6:28 p.m.
Featured vinyl: Albert Collins, The Spats, Judey & the Duets, Bobby Parker, The Hot Toddys, Mike Rabin & the Demons, Ellie Pop & more! Broadcast live on 7415 & 5110kHz shortwave radio!
2007 Andrew Gilligan, BBC's Iraq war whistleblower: Caught in the Crossfire
Dec. 9, 2007, 6:11 p.m.
Andrew Gilligan: Keynote speaker for the second Bristol NUJ Benn Lecture
On Monday 26 November the celebrated investigative journalist Andrew Gilligan gave the second annual Bristol NUJ/Arnolfini Benn lecture on the media and politics in Bristol.
In 2003 it was Gilligan who made the famous statement on BBC radio’s Today programme that he had been told by a source that the Government “probably knew that the 45-minute figure [on Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction capability] was wrong even before it decided to put it in”.
This was the report which led to Dr David Kelly taking his own life, which led in turn to the Hutton Report in 2004. The report found against the BBC and Andrew. The NUJ, however, supports what Gilligan did, believes that the BBC acted in the public interest, and maintain that it’s vital for the right of journalists to protect the anonymity of confidential sources to be protected in law.
Gilligan, working these days at the Evening Standard and Channel 4’s Dispatches, spoke about the ongoing attack on journalism since Wapping in the mid-Eighties and the demise of the printers’ unions, the fact that it has since become possible to make real money out of the media and what media-as-marketable-commodity has meant for quality journalism.
He made a passionate argument for the need to stand up for true reporting and impartial analysis – for the dignity of journalism as the fourth estate of the realm.
Speaking about the institutions in Britain (“the most centralised and secretive large democracy in the world”) which have both failed, and have failed to acknowledge their failings, Gilligan pointed out that the forces of hostility to journalism are on the increase, with clampdowns on unofficial sources; new difficulties in publishing memoirs; and leaks – and those who report on them – being punished even with jail to no murmurs of protest from the media.
So it’s hard times, but important ones. Andrew pointed out that we still ARE a democracy; that it IS possible to roll back state power; and that journalists have the potential to produce an alternative narrative which will hold government to account, inform the public, and defend democratic freedoms. Although the economics are going to become more difficult, he said that in a world full of cacophony the power of focused information is still considerable – and that as journalists, we should aim to supply it.
http://www.tjpdesign.co.uk/wordpress/2007/12/08/dialect-8th-dec-2007-studio-guests-tappis-and-james-ladd-trio/
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/11/couglin_maverick_gilligan_is_w.html
Dec. 9, 2007, 5:06 p.m.
"What A Way to Go, Life at the end of Empire" Interview with the film makers, as crisis converges. What can we do? Then: "Canada's Deadly Secret" - uranium & global nuclear system. Author Jim Harding interview. 2 new songs.
Dec. 9, 2007, 5:01 p.m.
Wrap up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish and Maria Tomchick of Eat the State! (www.eatthestate.org).
Dec. 9, 2007, 4:56 p.m.
Propaganda got you thinking "the surge is working"? Author Dahr Jamail counters with Iraq reality, from the ground. Cheney's privateers, a wasted country under occupation. Speech Vancouver Dec 8 07
Dec. 9, 2007, 4:50 p.m.
A heavy layered and 'updated' collaged show based on older pieces from New Horizons In Violence, Scottie's Cut and Paste Project, Waxaudio's Mashopolis soundtracks and local teddy bear names.
Kyoto Now Rally & March in Toronto
Dec. 9, 2007, 4:20 p.m.
Dec. 9, 2007, 12:52 p.m.
The closing panel discussion of the 2007 Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference in Montpellier, Vermont.
Dec. 9, 2007, 10:35 a.m.
An audio collage recorded at a demonstration and speak-out against the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Reasonable Accomodaations in Montreal, November 29, 2007.
Music courtesy of: Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary, Exhaust, Dead Prez, and K'naan
Dec. 9, 2007, 9:54 a.m.
Dec. 9, 2007, 9:52 a.m.
Best of Flashpoints - December 3-7, 2007
Dec. 9, 2007, 9:09 a.m.
"Best of Flashpoints" is a weekly, one-hour digest featuring the hottest segments of the week.
Dec. 9, 2007, 8:38 a.m.
Starts with a backmasking collage by Warbear and Phinny called Invocation to My Demon Brother, then proceeds to other pieces by NCN, Negativland, PFloyd, mashups and experimental pieces.
Between The Lines Week Ending 12/14/07
Dec. 9, 2007, 5:51 a.m.
U.S. Intelligence Report on Iranian Nukes; Veterans Without Health Care; Rewriting Bolivia's Constitution
dec 8th ::: MATRIX WORLD CRISIS - Happening Now
Dec. 8, 2007, 11:01 p.m.
Dec. 8, 2007, 7:17 p.m.
* Excerpts from Andrew Gilligan's 2007 Benn lecture "Caught in the Crossfire".
* Studio guest: Bristol poet Tappis
* Studio guest: Great music from the local band The James Ladd Trio.
Keith Chester (Part 2), re: UFOs in WWII
Dec. 8, 2007, 7:05 p.m.
European v. Pacific Foo Fighters, post-war revelations about the FFs, big picture discussion on the war time aerial anomalies, Keith's mentor Len Stringfield. Plus tons more.
Old Mole Variety Hour, December 3, 2007
Dec. 8, 2007, 6:23 p.m.
Bill Resnick talks with Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh about the administration's charges against Iran. Frann Michel reflects on religion, sexuality and social control--and the movie "The Bible Tells Me So." Host Clayton Morgareidge comments on
Dec. 8, 2007, 6:18 p.m.
Blues Investigated 8th Dec 2007
Dec. 8, 2007, 6:16 p.m.
Forida Farmworkers vs Burger King and Goldman Sachs
Dec. 8, 2007, 5:55 p.m.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers won victories with McDonald'⢠s for Florida farmworkers. But now Burger King & Goldman Sachs have joined with the Florida tomato industry growers to launch an assault on farmworkers.
Mandatory Minimums, Drugs, Incarceration and HIV
Dec. 8, 2007, 4:41 p.m.
The Tories have introduced a Bill, creating mandatory minimum sentences for various drug crimes, despite evidence showing mandatory minimums don't reduce crime or drug use but actually make communities less safe and expose more people to disease.
Dec. 8, 2007, 4:32 p.m.
the 73rd episode of skinny was originally broadcast june 24, 2005 on 89.7 wshc-fm, shepherdstown, west virginia.
featuring music by: four tet, lali puna, common, sage francis, kid 606 and much more...
"Speak of the Devil"
Dec. 8, 2007, 9:51 a.m.
In stark--some would say "diametrical"--contrast to last week's theme, I've put together this RADIOLA! for Halloween.
Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine
Dec. 8, 2007, 9:31 a.m.
Naomi Klein takes us through her new perspective on global capitalism: The Shock Doctrine
Dec. 8, 2007, 9:30 a.m.
Another one of those "metaphysical" themes that RADIOLA! habitues know so well. I explore the more positive aspects of the afterlife, with a few non-thematic selections to keep it interesting.
Music Wants To Be Heard (Yearend 2007 Edition)
Dec. 8, 2007, 9:14 a.m.
Year end 2007 edition featuring new music from John Zorn, Parts And Labor, Nine Inch Nails, TINY MASTERS OF TODAY Radishes, Battles and alot more.
Amending the Venezuelan constitution
Dec. 8, 2007, 7:42 a.m.
Much of the North American media coverage of Venezuelan constitutional reforms has focused on the section that will end term limits for the president. But there are many changes that have received less attention.