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Join Davy Jones and Peter Noone on a Trip Down Memory Lane Dec. 30
By: Emily Votaw
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Some 60 years ago, pop music forever changed after the British Invasion brought with it waves of Manchurian pop bands eager to tug on the ears and hearts of young… Read More
Catch the Biggest Radio Hits of the ’70s on WOUB-HD Dec. 30
By: Emily Votaw
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Even if you don’t know The Emotions, you mostly certainly would recognize “Best of My Love,” a song that probably plays frequently on your car radio and over the speakers… Read More
NOVA: Bird Brain to Broadcast on WOUB-HD Dec. 20
By: Emily Votaw
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What is the nature of intelligence? Is it one’s prowess with puzzles and math problems? How quickly one can determine by whom and in what ways they are being played?… Read More
WOUB-HD to Re-Broadcast ‘Great Performances: The Moody Blues’ Dec. 31 at 11 p.m.
By: Emily Votaw
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In December 1999 a group of second graders in northeast Ohio sat down to watch a VHS tape of what they thought would be Charles Shultz’s heartfelt modern masterpiece, A… Read More
WOUB-HD to Broadcast ‘The 80s (My Music)’ Nov. 27
By: Emily Votaw
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Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson were all children of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s – they lived through the rise and dissolution of… Read More
WOUB-HD to Broadcast ‘David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii’ December 3 @ 3:30 pm
By: Emily Votaw
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In October of 1971 filmmaker Adrian Maben secured the Roman amphitheater for the six-day shoot of Pink Floyd’s groundbreaking concert film, Live at Pompeii. The undeniably impressive performance includes cuts… Read More
WOUB-HD to Air ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Nov. 25
By: Emily Votaw
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years is a 97-minute in-depth look into The Beatles’ earliest years, from their achingly precise performances at The Cavern Club in… Read More
WOUB-HD to Re-Broadcast ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Dec. 31 at 2 p.m.
By: Emily Votaw
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Anne of Green Gables is a story of childhood – a slice of life narrative that follows the precocious orphan Anne Shirley as she comes into adulthood and ultimately sacrifices… Read More
WOUB-HD to Broadcast ‘Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic’ Nov. 16
By: Emily Votaw
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There are few things as stunning as the endless, mirroring landscapes of snow that make up a portion of Switzerland throughout the winter months. Earlier this year, Athens’ own Jeff… Read More
WOUB-HD to Broadcast John Coltrane Documentary Nov. 6
By: Emily Votaw
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“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am. My faith, my knowledge, my being.” — John Coltrane Chris Pyle was in his mid-teens when he first purchased John Coltrane’s masterful… Read More
Navajo Culture Celebrated by WOUB-HD’s Broadcast of ‘Navajo Math Circles’
By: Emily Votaw
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Despite the twisty, unpleasant feeling that the word “math” may summon inside you, it’s important to understand that math isn’t simply pages of multiplication tables or lines upon lines of… Read More
‘The Vietnam War’ Premieres Same Week as ‘Wall That Heals’ Visits Athens
By: Emily Votaw
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Over 58,000 Americans in uniform perished over the duration of the Vietnam War. The years of America’s involvement as a chief combatant in the conflict were some of the most… Read More
Explore Mindfulness on WOUB-HD August 5
By: Emily Votaw
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You’re out grocery shopping. You spot an acquaintance over by the bananas. You’re by the potatoes, but you think you’ve caught their eye, and you wave to them. They don’t… Read More
WOUB-HD Honors Folk Legends Monday, August 7
By: Emily Votaw
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In the late ’40s Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman, Lee Hays, and Pete Seeger formed the Weavers in Greenwich Village — their name taken from the 1892 theatrical work Die Weber (translated to… Read More
‘Bob Ross: the Happy Painter’ to Air on WOUB-HD August 5
By: Emily Votaw
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Soothing, spare music plays across a black backdrop which gently drops away as a viscerally calm bearded man with large, frizzy hair and a gentle, tactile tone of voice gently… Read More
WOUB-HD to Broadcast ‘Emmylou Harris – At the Ryman’ August 10
By: Emily Votaw
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From 1943 to 1974, Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium was the physical manifestation of the cultural icon that is the Grand Ole Opry. Every week the iconic show would broadcast from… Read More
Talking the Summer of Love with Jorma Kaukonen
By: Emily Votaw
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It’s a balmy day in late June, and Jorma Kaukonen has invited WOUB onto the grounds of his Fur Peace Ranch, a sprawling compound dotted with little gardens and rustic… Read More
WOUB-HD to Air ‘A Conversation With Bill Moyers’ June 9
By: Emily Votaw
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On the last episode of PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal, in which Bill Moyers interviews American populist Jim Hightower, Moyers said one of the lessons he learned from American television journalist… Read More
WOUB-HD Airing Johnny Mathis’ Landmark Career Celebration Concert
By: Emily Votaw
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Johnny Mathis is one of the most celebrated vocalists of the past century. Over the course of his career he has released 71 albums, and eleven of those albums have… Read More
Let Paul Simon Be Your Long Lost Pal June 3
By: Emily Votaw
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Paul Simon is arguably one of the greatest American songwriters of all time. Early on in his career, when he was the shorter half of the iconic folk duo Simon… Read More
It Was 50 Years Ago June 2 That Sgt. Pepper Taught the Band To Play
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Bill Rawlins first heard Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on an summer day in 1967. “When my friends and I first put on Sgt. Pepper’s, we thought it was a… Read More
Catching Lightning In a Bottle: ‘American Epic’ Explores American Recordings
By: Emily Votaw
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In the 1920s radio almost tanked the record business. Record companies knew they needed to capture a new market, and they did so in an ingenious fashion. “Record companies in… Read More