This Week on Nashville Public Radio
May 15 - 21,
2009
Live in Studio C - Tue, 11:06am and 8:06pm (90.3
WPLN-FM)
Fiddler David Coe and guitarist Jim Prendergast are here with Irish music, then Frank and
Diane Marino and their quartet play jazz.
Bluegrass
Breakdown - Sat, 8pm (90.3 WPLN-FM)
"Alecia Nugent & Russ Barenberg Live" She's one of the genre's finest singers, endowed
with the supernatural ability to always hit the center of the bulls-eye painted on your heart. Her long-awaited new project, the appropriately
titled Hillbilly Goddess, has finally hit record store shelves. We'll be celebrating that arrival with a flourish when the Alecia
Nugent Band joins us live. And, as though that wasn't enough, to send you into the throes of high-lonesome ecstasy and beyond, guitar god Russ
Barenberg will be pickin' a few live ones in honor of his Compass recording, When At Last.
American Routes - Sat, 9pm (90.3 WPLN-FM)
American Routes takes a trip through the music of the Yellowhammer State--Alabama. Visit the Muscle Shoals
Sound studio and find out what's in the water around "the Shoals" to make it a historic hotbed for R&B hits by Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and
more. Also, a trip through Hank Williams' childhood home in Georgiana, and the W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence. Plus, music from Shelby
Lynne, the Birmingham Sunlights and the Delmore Brothers.
A
Prairie Home Companion - Sat, 5pm and Sun, 1pm (90.3 WPLN-FM) & Sat, 8pm and Sun, 6am (HD-3)
This week on A Prairie Home
Companion, enjoy bits and pieces of two shows from springtimes past: one from Hot Springs, Arkansas and the other from Columbus, Georgia. The
first-couple of old time music, Norman and Nancy Blake, sing "Hawaiian Mother of
Mine," Robin and Linda Williams sing "Green Summertime," and Jearlyn Steele appears in an episode of Guy Noir
as Geraldine -- a woman in search of stardom. Plus, guitarist Jake Fussell, country
swingers BR-549, and a message from Lurleen's Spa in Hot Springs. Lurleen's Hot Springs: It
Feels So Good When It's Done.
Bob Edwards Weekend - Sat, 12:30pm and
Sun, 3pm (HD-3)
Bob Edwards talks with political strategist and author James Carville, actor Kenneth Branagh, This I Believe, Inc. Executive
Director Dan Gediman, poet and author E. Ethelbert Miller, director James Toback, and author Christopher McDougall.
Marketplace
Money - Sat, 7am (HD-3), 8am (1430 WPLN-AM) and 4pm (90.3 WPLN-FM)
Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess
Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet.
Speaking of Faith - Sun, 12pm (1430 WPLN-AM) & 8pm (HD-3)
"Living Differently, Beyond Economic
Crisis" - a new installment in Speaking of Faith's ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue. Hundreds of listeners have joined a conversation
about the human and the practical spiritual aspects of our economic present. In this hour, eight of them put words around experiences many of us are
having and impart some wisdom from disparate angles on life.
The Splendid Table - Sun, noon (90.3 WPLN-FM)
A look at entertaining
through the eyes of one of the world's most festive and stylish hosts, fashion designer and cultural iconoclast Isaac Mizrahi. Jane and Michael Stern
may have found the best coffee in Seattle at Crema and Food & Wine magazine's Lettie Teague tells us about the latest restaurant trend, house
wines.
Studio 360 - Sun,
10am (90.3 WPLN-FM)
Kurt Andersen talks with Lynn Nottage, the playwright behind the Pulitzer
prize-winning play, Ruined. Arts critics are forced to get resourceful when their old funding sources dry up. And out in the
Mojave Desert, 82-year-old Gene Winfield designs the cars of the future.
SymphonyCast - Sun, 8pm (90.3 WPLN-FM)
Cleveland Orchestra with conductor Franz Welser-Möst perform a program of:
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
Webern: Im Sommerwind
This American Life - Sat, 1pm (1430 WPLN-AM) & Sun, 6pm (90.3 WPLN-FM) and 7pm
(HD-3)
"No Map" A show about people who find themselves well
off the beaten path, at least in any way that they could have anticipated--in terms of money, in terms of family...and in one case, in terms of taming
a wild animal on the side of a road.
The Thistle &
Shamrock - Sat, 7pm and Sun, 3pm (90.3 WPLN-FM)
"Digital Imperfection" Studio technology has vastly improved standards in music recording and performance. Some artists offset
the digital perfection by mixing archive vinyl, complete with clicks and pops, into their own tracks, while others resist any dependence on overdubs
and re-takes. More than a gimmick, it all helps us stay connected to the authentic roots of today's music.
To the Best
of Our Knowledge - Sun, 3pm (1430 WPLN-AM)
"Facing Death" - Can science conquer death? It may
seem like an absurd question, but some people think it's possible. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll meet Aubrey de Grey, a
maverick English scientist who has identified seven major kinds of molecular and cellular damage. He thinks we can prevent all these natural cases of
death and thereby extend our lives indefinitely.
"Revenge of the Nerds" - Nerds are an easy target for humor in
movies and on TV ... with their thick black glasses, hopelessly out-of-fashion clothes, and over-enunciated diction. But there's a dark side to nerds.
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll find out how the nerd stereotype is harming our children. Also, we'll explore a new kind
of music called nerdcore hip hop, alias geeksta rap.
Travel with Rick Steves - Sat, 11am (1430 WPLN-AM) and 2pm
(HD-3)
"Rome: Beneath the Surface" Take a closer look at
some of the interesting sites you'll find all around you -- and beneath your feet -- on the streets of Rome. Rick is joined by a tour guide
raised in Rome who knows her city inside out. We'll also check in on the city's now-trendy Jewish Ghetto, get practical tips for planning a visit, and
hear what some of our listeners have discovered in Rome.
Whad'Ya Know? - Sat,
10am (90.3 WPLN-FM) and 4pm (HD-3) & Sun, 6pm (1430 WPLN-AM)
Michael heads to Iowa for a live broadcast
from Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. Some fabulous guests await Michael amongst the
cornfields -- Marc Hansen from The Des Moines Register, Robert Shumaker
from the Great Ape Trust, Greg Smith, owner of Smitty's (The Original King Tenderloin since 1952) and musical guest John Michael
Moore -- a performer with the Des Moines Metro Opera.
WireTap -
Sat, 2pm (1430 WPLN-AM)
On this week's Wiretap, hosted by
Jonathan Goldstein, a man confronts the minister who ruined his grandmother's funeral. Plus, Howard outsources his friendship
with Jonathan to an Indian call center.
Rossini's Il Turco in Italia at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy
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