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KGOU Sunday Radio Matinee
Sundays 12 Noon - 1 p.m.
Public radio has many great programs that produce just a few episodes a year: Intelligence Squared U.S., America Abroad, This Land Radio and KGOU's student-produced show Assignment: Radio. This is their time slot.
Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee: The Mandela Tapes
In this timely program from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC), you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. It’s a program that draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with Mandela, held for many years in Johannesburg by archivists at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
The man chosen to record Mandela's life story was Rick Stengel, a young reporter working in South Africa for Rolling Stone magazine. From 1992 to 1996, Stengel shadowed Mandela, using his small cassette machine to record the stories which would help in the writing of Mandela's autobiography, 'Long Walk to Freedom'.
The two other key voices in the documentary are the current managing editor of Time Magazine Rick Stengel and freelance radio producer Robin Benger.
IDEAS on CBC Radio was the first radio program anywhere in the world to be given full access to these remarkable recordings. This documentary originally aired on the CBC in May of this year.
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Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Intelligence Squared US: “For A Better Future, Live In A Red State.”
While gridlock and division in Washington make it difficult for either party or ideology to set the policy agenda, single-party government prevails in three-quarters of the states. In 24 states Republicans control the governorship and both houses of the legislature, and in 13 states Democrats enjoy one-party control. Comparing economic growth, education, health care, quality of life and environment, and the strength of civil society, do red or blue states win out? The debaters are Hugh Hewitt, Gray Davis, Stephen Moore, and Michael Lind.
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Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Only In America: The First Jews
America provided refuge from ancient European prejudice, persecution and poverty. "The First Jews" tells the little-known early history of Jews in Colonial America, from New Amsterdam to Charleston, SC. John Lithgow reads letters from Peter Stuyvesant to The Dutch West India Company asking permission to expel these Jews, calling them "blasphemers of the name of Christ." Permission was refused. Thus began the struggle for survival and acceptance in America. The story concludes with the American Revolution, the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and their crucial role in the success in the new country for American Jews and all immigrants who followed. This program is narrated and produced by Larry Josephson.
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Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
This Land Radio: Episode #9 “This Machine Comes Home”
This week, the ghost of Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength. Nora Guthrie asks us to dance - out of our made walls, out from our sins, out from our sick spell, and to the high glory. Tiffany Colannino opens up the archives to reveal the only recording of Woody performing live. And Ramblin’ Jack Elliott slips off his sneakers and goes searching for the soul of a man. It's episode #9 of the 10-part radio series from This Land Press.
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Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives
As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, KGOU brings you a collection of never-before-broadcast memories from JFK’s confidantes recorded just after his murder.
Hear from JFK colleagues who were with him during his first political race in 1946, until his last days in office. Journalist Robert MacNeil guides us through the various speakers who wrestle with grief and memory to provide intimate details on JFK the man, the president and father.
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Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Reveal is a new investigative program from the The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. In this pilot: an exclusive story about the volume and impact stemming from the VA's over-prescripton of opiates to addicted veterans; the attorney behind many of the worst for-profit charities; bodycams for cops; and how one reporter helped one man prove his brother had been abused at a state mental facility. Reveal is hosted by Al Letson from State of the Re:Union and WJCT, Jacksonville.
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Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
America Abroad: Egypt And The Struggle For Democracy
As countries across the Middle East were rocked by political protests in early 2011, Egypt's Tahrir Square became the symbol and heart of the Arab Spring.
In the nearly three years since, Egypt's attempt at turning a revolution into a stable democracy has hit major obstacles.
America Abroad, in conjunction with KCRW in Los Angeles, and ONtv in Cairo, recently brought Americans and Egyptians together for an international town hall discussion about what they think lies ahead for Egypt, and how the country might emerge from the current crisis.
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Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
IQ2: Is the U.S. Drone Program Fatally Flawed?
Remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, have been the centerpiece of America’s counterterrorism toolkit since the start of the Obama presidency, and the benefits have been clear. Their use has significantly weakened al Qaeda and the Taliban while keeping American troops out of harm’s way. But critics of drone strikes argue that the short-term gains do not outweigh the long-term consequences—among them, radicalization of a public outraged over civilian deaths. Is our drone program hurting, or helping, in the fight against terrorism?
THE MOTION
The U.S. Drone Program Is Fatally Flawed
FOR
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan-based Journalist & Author
"All the good of U.S. foreign policy, foreign aid, training of security forces, bank loans—all are demolished when at the same time the U.S. uses drones."
John Kael Weston, Fmr. State Dept. Political Adviser to Marine Units, Iraq & Afghanistan
"I found that the commanders on the ground, the Marine generals I worked with, the closer they were to the drones, the more skeptical they were."
AGAINST
Admiral Dennis Blair (USN. Ret.), Former Director of National Intelligence
"The drones have been successful. We have killed most of the people who planned, who directed, and then who gloated over the felling of the Twin Towers."
General Norton Schwartz (USAF, Ret.), Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force
"This technology is proliferating, and not because we chose to use it. It is a fact of technology advancing. And our lead was and remains significant."
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Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Reconciliation Way
Tulsa, Oklahoma sits at a crossroads of American identities. In a special episode of SOTRU (State of the Re-Union), we travel to the middle of Middle America to see what happens when these identities collide. We explore one of the country’s deadliest race riots, a story that has been mostly suppressed for 90 years; visit a lovingly-crafted museum dedicated to spreading poetry to rural Oklahoma; and—in two special stories produced by This Land Press—visit a couple of churches, one struggling mightily to integrate and the other building a shrine for undocumented immigrants in a state with some of the harshest immigration laws in the nation.
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Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Ties That Bind: A StoryCorps 10th Anniversary Celebration
There are questions we would answer, if only we were asked. How did we grow up? What do we remember about home? What about our family?
This fall, celebrate the first decade of StoryCorps with a special retrospective hosted by NPR's Scott Simon and StoryCorps founder Dave Isay. Look back on 10 years of celebrating everyday people on public radio in this new hour-long special.
Recorded in StoryCorps' own interview booth in Manhattan, this special features Dave and Scott in an unscripted conversation about the importance of humanity, intimacy and the need to bear witness. They share stories about StoryCorps' beginnings and its growth into an archive of interviews with nearly 100,000 Americans from every state of the union.
Dave and Scott also revisit some of the most beloved conversations, reflect on Studs Terkel's speech at the launch of the project, get updates from the participants, and go behind-the-scenes of a StoryCorps interview.
Listen in on some unforgettable StoryCorps moments: Danny and Annie Perasashare their belief in the everlasting power of their love in the face of death, the amazingMs. Divine leaves her mark, Monique Ferrer remembers her husband who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, and Scott Simon shares one of the last recorded conversations he had with his mother Patricia in a StoryCorps recording booth.
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Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 ~ Noon-1 p.m.
Sunday Radio Matinee
Storytelling is at the core of the human experience. It's how we convey who we are, how we feel, and why we do the things we do. For over 30 years, the OKC Storytelling Festival has served to entertain and enlighten the public on the art of professional storytelling. This year, KGOU tagged along to "document" the three day event, which included the artistry of Patrick Ball, Judith Black, and Oklahoma's own Barbara McBride-Smith. This Sunday we're sharing some of the tales by these respective artists as captured live on stage. It's storytelling at it's finest with highlights from the 2013 OKC Storytelling Festival this Sunday a noon on KGOU.
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