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Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Climate Hour, with Bob Grove, President of Climate Council of Greater Kansas City.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre, hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night.
Third Thursday: Rise Up! produced by the Racial Justice Initiative, including Catina Taylor, Richard Mabion, and Lesley Pories.
Fourth Thursday: River City Chautauqua, produced is Julie Bennett Hume
Fifth Thursday beginning July 31, 2021: From Ark to Microchip; producer Dwight Frizzell
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
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The Team
Bob Grove is a civil rights and climate activist, performer and political organizer. He grew up among northern Missouri farmers where he developed a passion for the rights of people and for healthy environments in which those rights can live.
Dwight Frizzell is an internationally recognized artist whose interdisciplinary work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art and writing. He has been producing the “From Ark to Microchip” series with Jay Mandeville since 1984.
Jay Mandeville, host of "From Ark to Microchip," is a poet, essayist, editor, voice actor, and erstwhile
jazz crooner, is a native Kansas Citian, and currently resituated in
Independence, Missouri.
This troupe has been entertaining KKFI's listeners since 2010. It is all local, all home grown. Writers, actors, technicians, and producers are local artists and artisans, some of whom have day jobs! They have an eclectic, if somewhat erratic, outlook on life and what you think is funny.
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Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Climate Hour, with Bob Grove, President of Climate Council of Greater Kansas City.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre; hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night.
Third Thursday: Rise Up! produced by the Racial Justice Initiative, including Catina Taylor, Richard Mabion, and Lesley Pories
Fourth Thursday: River City Chautauqua; producer Julie Bennett Hume
Fifth Thursday beginning July 31, 2021: From Ark to Microchip; producer Dwight Frizzell
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
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