On these podcasts we discuss the first amendment, religion in a secular society, organized crime in ’60s Austin, immigrant rights and family detention, and sustainability through performance art!
Author and musician Jesse Sublett in the studios of KOOP Radio in Austin, Texas, April 24, 2015. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio has an international audience and has become an influential platform for interviews with leading figures in politics, current events, literature, and cutting-edge culture. The following podcasts are from recent Rag Radio shows that have not previously been posted to The Rag Blog.
∗First Amendment Scholar Burt Neuborne, Author of ‘Madison’s Music’
Read the show description and download the podcast of our May 8, 2015 Rag Radio show with Burt Neuborne here — or listen to it here:
∗Rev Jim Rigby on ‘The Role of Religion in a Secular State’
Read the show description and download the podcast of our May 1, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Rev. Jim Rigby here — or listen to it here:
∗Writer & Musician Jesse Sublett, Author of ‘1960s Texas Gangsters’
Read the show description and download the podcast of our April 24, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Jesse Sublett, including live musical performance, here — or listen to it here:
∗Barbara Hines, Prominent Immigration Attorney and Immigrant Rights Advocate
Read the show description and download the podcast of our April 17, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Barbara Hines here — or listen to it here:
∗Professor Dumpster (Dr. Jeff Wilson): ‘Teaching Sustainability through Performance Art’
Read the show description and download the podcast of our April 10, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Dr. Jeff Wilson here — or listen to it here:
Coming up on Rag Radio:
- FRIDAY, May 29, 2015: Ray Hill, Houston gay and prison rights activist, former manager of Pacifica radio’s KPFT-FM, and soon to be honored as a Houston “Living Legend.”
Rag Radio, a weekly hour-long syndicated radio program that has aired more than 250 original shows since September 2009, is produced and hosted by Rag Blog editor Thorne Dreyer. Tracey Schulz is engineer and co-producer.
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, a cooperatively-run all-volunteer community radio station in Austin, Texas, and is first broadcast live on KOOP every Friday from 2-3 p.m. (CDT) and streamed live on the web. All Rag Radio shows are posted as podcasts at the Internet Archive. Find out more about Rag Radio here.
Rag Radio is rebroadcast and streamed on Sundays at 10 a.m. (EDT) on WFTE, 90.3-FM in Mt. Cobb, PA, and 105.7-FM in Scranton, PA., and is also aired and streamed on KPFT-HD3 90.1 — Pacifica radio in Houston — on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (CDT).
After broadcast, all Rag Radio shows are posted as podcasts at the Internet Archive.
Rag Radio is produced in association with The Rag Blog, a progressive Internet newsmagazine, and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Tracey Schulz is co-producer and engineer.
Please contact us at ragradio@koop.org.
[Thorne Dreyer is an Austin-based writer, editor, broadcaster, and activist. A pioneering alternative journalist, Dreyer was a founding editor of the original Rag in 1966 Austin and Space City! in Houston, and managed KPFT-FM, Houston’s Pacifica radio station. Dreyer now edits The Rag Blog, hosts Rag Radio, and is a director of the New Journalism Project. Contact Dreyer at editor@theragblog.com.]
