Cover to Cover Open Book
3:30 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro.
Open Book – March 25, 2011
An interview with Kenneth Bowser, director of a new documentary film, “Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune,” about the legendary political folk singer of the ’60s and ’70s. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. An extended version of this interview can be found at http://www.bookwaves.com
Cover to Cover Open Book – March 18, 2011
A conversation between Amelia Gonzalez and Rodrigo Garcia, long time performer and current community relations associate for Teatro Vision. Teatro Vision is Chicano theater company that celebrates cultura, nurtures communidad and inspires vision. It’s housed at the mexican heritage plaza in San Jose. Teatro Vision is opening it’s West Coast Premiere of the best selling novel, Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – February 11, 2011
We honor Black History Month by presenting Pacifica’s Archives program, From the Vault. From the Vault presents one of the key architects of the African American Civil Rights Movement, The Reverend Ralpg Abernathy. Born in 1926, Abernathy was raised in Alabama and by 1952 was minister for the largest African American congregation in Montgomery. When seamstress … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – February 4, 2011
Nina Serrano interviews her guest, novelist Carolina de Robertis about her award winning, “The Invisible Mountain.” They discuss the one hundred year period of Uruguayan history that de Robertis uses as her novel’s setting: 1900-2000. She reads excerpts from the book. The conversation focuses on the multi-generational aspect of the book’s and the real characters … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – January 21, 2011
This week we present excerpts from Pacifica Radio Archives’ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. five-hour radio special. The original program features Dr. King recordings spanning 11 years from 1957 to just a few weeks before his death in 1968.