In 1970 Fred Flaxman was the founder and first manager of public radio station WETA-FM in Washington, D.C. He later served as a vice president of WETA-TV and as assistant general manager and director of programming and production for KUAT-TV, the public television station in Tucson, Arizona.

In 1978 he founded Public Broadcasting International, headquartered in Paris, France.

Flaxman was vice president for national programming of WTTW/Chicago for six years. There he was in charge of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, which received nine international awards, and he received an Emmy award as executive producer of Messenger to Poland.

He was an occasional commentator for the nationally-syndicated public radio program, Marketplace. His commentaries were also heard throughout southern Oregon and northern California on Jefferson Public Radio’s daily newsmagazine program.

As a writer, his articles have appeared in leading newspapers across the country including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle among other publications. He is the recipient of a first-place award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

He and his wife, Annick Story Flaxman of Dinard, France, live in Weaverville, North Carolina. The Flaxmans have two grown children.

Compact Discoveries is a series of one-hour, classical music radio programs, with a relaxed, informal and light approach. Fred sometimes uses humor, sound effects, personal essays, clips from old-time radio programs, and non-classical music to make his theme-based hours interesting and fun. The music is always carefully selected to appeal to the widest possible audience for classical music and to attract new listeners to the genre.  Fred’s amusing themes range from Discs for Dishwashing” to “Aaron Copeland, the Brooklyn Cowboy”.   The programs often feature little-known composers who have written pieces that people will like on first hearing such as Ernesto Nazareth, Kurt Atterberg, Rene Touzet, and Clara Schumann.Cecile Chaminade, Tyzen Hsiao and Joaquin Nin.

Compact Discoveries can be heard on Public Radio Stations throughout the country or on the Public Radio Exchange.

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Announcing Season 2 of Tom Lopez’s 4-Minute Film Noir

4-Minute Film Noir, fun videos that take film noir caricatures and blend them with  stellar wit, timing, and sense of humor.  Watch the 1st episode of the new season above.

LISTEN to an interview about 4-Minute Film Noir from Radio Drama Revival.

Tom Lopez is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. ZBS is a not-for-profit arts organization that has been in existence since 1970. For 35 years they’ve been producing radio/audio stories. 4-Minute Film Noir is Tom’s first effort in the realm of visual story telling.

About 4-Minute Film Noir:

Joe, Moe, & Flo, two guys and a gal who like to have a drink and tell about tough dames, little weasels, hot tomatoes, thugs, cons, cops, suckers and sweethearts.

They come from a world of crime, hard-boiled detectives and cold-blooded criminals. But Joe, Moe, and Flo have a sense of humor. They can laugh about a fat lawyer being flattened by a steam roller, or an Indian who is a fall guy in a land fraud, or a ruthless gangster whose mother drives him nuts, or Polish bank robbers who dress up like Tonto and call each other Kemo Sabe.They have pretty much seen it all, they can find humor in the strangest places. You might say it’s how they deal with life. You might even find yourself laughing along with them.

Joe, Moe, & Flo are from the world of Film Noir.

STARRING:

Bill Raymond as JOE

Thomas A Stewart as MOE

Cheyenne Casebier as FLO

Prime Time Radio presents  Before and After Stonewall:  A Talk with Dr. Frank Kameny
(84, activist, historian and raconteur)

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the [Stonewall] riots as a reason to “commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans”.

Frank Kameny, Ph.D., age 84, is acknowledged as the founding father of the modern gay rights movement. In this rollicking conversation, he takes on all issues from gay marriage to the impact of AIDS on the gay rights movement.

“The most momentous single Gay Movement event occurred at the end of June, 1969, when the “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York…converted what had been a tiny, struggling gay movement into the vast grass-roots movement which it now is.

(…) At the start of the Sixties gays were completely invisible. By the end, and especially after Stonewall, we were seen everywhere: in entertainment, education, religion, politics, business, elsewhere and everywhere.”

Frank Kameny, Letter to Tom Brokaw

LISTEN to the program; WATCH video

AVAILABLE (June 23rd): Content Depot, PRX, ORDER CD ;  COST: FREE;  LENGTH: 1 hour

A Special edition of Prime Time Radio

A one-hour weekly interview program that focuses on the wide-ranging interests and concerns of Americans 40 and older. Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert is a skilled interviewer and acute listener whose thorough preparation surprises and delights his guests.

As the nation celebrates its independence, Radio Bilingüe will broadcast performances from Las Américas, the Latino music component of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival that begins June 24 through July 5 in Washington, D.C. with extraordinary folk artists who represent some of the best musical traditions from the U.S. and Latin America.

Radio Bilingüe, now in its third year of broadcasting the Latino music festival, will cover the first half of the two-week run June 24-29 broadcasting and webcasting the programs at 3 PM and 5 PM EDT. Additional online platforms will include podcast, audio on demand archives, news text and photos.

Artists represent emblematic musical styles in the United States and throughout the Americas including -

• Puerto Rican bomba, plena, and jíbaro music,

• Mexican son music, mariachi music,

• Colombian vallenato, joropo, and currulao,

• Dominican merengue típico, bachata, and salve,

• Chilean cueca, tonada, and nueva canción,

• Venezuelan música llanera,

• Paraguayan polca,

• Guatemalan marimba, and

• Salvadoran chanchona music.

Chelis Lopez, a long-time cultural arts promoter and on-air personality in San Francisco, will host the series. The special coverage is in collaboration with WLCH Radio Centro in Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania.

Available via Content Depot, Satellite or online stream.

Webcasting, podcast, audio on demand archives, news text and photos are available at www.radiobilingue.org.

Funded by Listener Support

The crunch is on. Nature and humanity are both running off the rails and governments stand seemingly helpless before the juggernaut. But all is not lost. Into the breach are stepping new players, inventing strategies to transform the way we do things on many levels at once. And they’re forging surprising alliances in the process. In this program we’ll hear about two initiatives that seek to move the needle on issues of increasing urgency, one by influencing governmental policies on climate change, the other by changing corporate practices in the global tea industry.  LISTEN

Guests:

• Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org; environmental journalist; author, Deep Economy

• Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance

• Michiel Leijnse, Global Brand Manager, Lipton Tea (division of Unilever)

A World of Possibilities is an award-winning one-hour weekly public affairs program. Each week, host Mark Sommer talks with social innovators, leading policy analysts and big-picture thinkers on key national and global issues. The program currently airs in 41 states and six Canadian provinces as well as several other countries. Podcasts and other downloads average 125,000 a month.

In 2006, the United Nations awarded A World of Possibilities a Silver Medal “for outstanding achievement in international radio programming that best reflects the global concerns of the United Nations.” The program has also won six awards from the New York Festivals.

A World of Possibilities segments are underwritten variously by many of the country’s largest foundations-Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett, Packard, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Merck Family Fund-as well as by listener contributions.

LENGTH: 55 minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, MP3, The Content Depot, via Podcast, as well as selected episodes available on MP2 at PRX