Culture
This Week On Radio Free Athens: October 18, 2025
By: WOUB Culture Team
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Radio Free Athens (RFA) is broadcast Saturdays on WOUB 1340 AM and allows community volunteers and Ohio University students to present music and interview content through a format-free, host-driven program. Find the schedule and details about Saturday’s programs below. Listen to 1340 AM or click HERE to listen.
Excursions: Made in the Shade – another jazz motif with Dr. Art Cromwell ( 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Made in the Shade: Jazz From Mapleshade Records
Mapleshade Records was a singular recording enterprise that eschewed industry standards. Owner Pierre Sprey created a recording studio in a rural MD.mansion, using analog tape recorders, only two or three mics, no processing, reverb, or a mixing board, and a studio in his refurbished living room Within this creative cacophony over 200 recordings, most conceived and guided by the artists themselves.
“Made in the Shade” will begin with the label’s initial recordings, and follow its ongoing artists-directed projects Saturday Oct 18 from 6:06 p.m. – 9 p.m. EDT, as part of Radio Free Athens, on WOUB Ohio University Public Radio.