The legendary guitarist from Niger, Bombino, will be Burt’s in-studio guest this morning at 11 am.  Bombino will be performing at The Music Hall tonight at 8 pm.   Information here: http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event/bombino

Don’t miss this excellent show on Portsmouth Community Radio!

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night December 4th at 7 pm to hear a Jim Puplava / Financial Sense Newshour interview with Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism. Schweizer describes one of the biggest scandals in American politics that is waiting to explode. He tells the story of the inside game in Washington and shows how the permanent political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us.

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM – Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming via www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org for those outside the broadcast signal limits) 

Kind regards,  Brad  aka dj Big Brother
djbigbrother@portsmouthcommunityradio.org

“The people, unfortunately, are still very ignorant,
and are kept in ignorance by the systematic efforts
of all the governments, who consider this ignorance,
not without good reason, as one of the essential
conditions of their own power.”  ~ Mikhail Bakunin  1871
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The Free Speech Zone   with dj Big Brother
          glimpses of sanity and truth
                 Sundays  7:00-8:00 pm
                   WSCA-LP   106.1 FM  
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Lives In The Balance: songs of social and political import
    that you won’t hear on brain-dead corporate radio
                        with   dj  Big Brother                              
         Sundays  8:00-9:00 pm  WSCA-LP  106.1 FM 
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“Do the best that you can in the place where you are and be kind”
~ Scott Nearing

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www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org

Jo Ann reminds us that  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. So please tune in to Women Plus show this Saturday, October 15th at 2PM. Hear all about:

Women Singing OUT!  presents:

“Where I Live: A Breast Cancer Oratorio”

Composed in 1999 by Diane Benjamin, “Where I Live: A Breast Cancer Oratorio” is an important work that stresses the environmental factors that still drive the high rate of cancer through the experience of one woman, who represent many. Filled with lyrical beauty and rhythmic intensity, the oratorio is comprised of six narrative readings alternating with seven songs performed by the chorus and chamber orchestra.

Jo Ann welcomes two members of  Women Singing Out (see photo above).  They are Claudia Frost (see photo below), director, and Marte McNally.  Marte has sung the piece they will be featuring during the show, Where I Live: A Breast Cancer Oratorio,  with another group in Denver, CO.  She has been at WSO! for four years and has been instrumental in making the performance occur.

Women Plus – Saturday – October 15th – 2-4pm – listen locally at 106.1 fm or streaming live online at www.wscafm.org and click on “Listen Now” at top menu of the page.

It’s X-Minus One Night on Portsmouth Community Radio Audio Theatre.  Yes, four of the highest rated back to back  X Minus One programs: ” Cold Equations”, “Protection”, “Martian Death March”, and “ The Seventh Victim” – 1957.  If you like Sci-Fi, this is the place to be on Tuesday, August 2nd from 6 to 8 pm.   More Info: http://heirloomradio.com/audio_theatre_page.htm

Inner Sanctum starts us off with our “Horror-Thriller Night” Program.   The episode is “Dead Man’s Holiday” and it was originally aired on September 18, 1950.  Your host, Raymond (Paul McGrath) greets you as the creaking door makes its spooky appearance.  Prepare yourself for another ghostly tale accompanied by Raymond’s sickly puns!   Inner Sanctum ran from 1941 to 1952 producing over 520 episodes.  It was a premier horror series on radio.

Escape is up next… with “The Fourth Man” from August 18, 1947.    Producer, Norman MacDonald (Gunsmoke) utilizes the talents of Paul Frees and William Conrad in another episode of “ESCAPE.”  Our protagonist is in dire straits… all wrapped up in the supernatural.  Tonight’s episode stars William Johnstone… and will definitely give you an opportunity to “get away from it all… Escape!”

From the famous Lights Out series comes our own Audio Theatre Players in “Coffin in Studio B”. 

This episode of “Lights Out” that was originally written by Wyllis Cooper in 1934 and aired on July 13, 1946.  Our local actors got together in the WSCA studio on July 22nd, 2008 and performed the script live for our listening audience.  Our players (l-r in above photo) include: James Darling, James Sears, Chuck Curtis, Dan Comly and Brian Gregg.   Melanie Lovering (photo below) did the manual sound effects.  Audio editing and mixing was done by John Lovering.   This story takes place in Studio B of a radio station where the actors are rehearsing a murder mystery one last time before they go on the air.   They are interrupted by a strange visitor who happens to be selling coffins!

Join host, John Lovering, for two hours of classic old time radio with a special performance by our own Audio Theatre Players… Tune in locally at 106.1 FM or streaming live online at www.wscafm.org and click on “Listen Now” at the top of the page.  Consider this your formal invitation!    Questions, comments, requests, interested in joining our Audio Theatre Players?  jlovering@wscafm.org

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night June 5th at 7 pm to hear a 1956 CBS Radio Workshop  production of Aldous Huxley’s classic 1932 novel, Brave New World, narrated by the author. With announcer William Conrad , the cast includes Joseph Kearns, Bill Idleson, Gloria Henry, Charlote Lawrence, Byron Kane, Sam Edwards, Jack Kruschen, Bill Conrad, Vic Perrin and Lurene Tuttle. Music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann . Brave New World is of the most influential, cutting edge science fiction books ever published and forecasts a civilization centered in London, some 632 years into the future, in which Man’s machines have overtaken Man himself. Human reproduction has  become completely automated, as well as the nurturing and educational processes. Now having become victim to Man’s own modernization, the program examines every conceivable extreme of such a distopian civilization and its plight.

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM – Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming via www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org for those outside the broadcast signal limits) 

Kind regards,  Brad  aka dj Big Brother
djbigbrother@portsmouthcommunityradio.org

“The people, unfortunately, are still very ignorant,
and are kept in ignorance by the systematic efforts
of all the governments, who consider this ignorance,
not without good reason, as one of the essential
conditions of their own power.”  ~ Mikhail Bakunin  1871
************************************************************************
The Free Speech Zone   with dj Big Brother
          glimpses of sanity and truth
                 Sundays  7:00-8:00 pm
                   WSCA-LP   106.1 FM  
**************************************************************************
Lives In The Balance: songs of social and political import
    that you won’t hear on brain-dead corporate radio
                        with   dj  Big Brother                              
         Sundays  8:00-9:00 pm  WSCA-LP  106.1 FM 
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“Do the best that you can in the place where you are and be kind”
~ Scott Nearing

SUPPORT PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO ~ JOIN NOW!
 www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org

“Seed the Power” and help Portsmouth Community Radio stay on the air as we grow into our 7th season.  Please call 603-430-9722 to make a pledge of any amount during Audio Theatre, but listen for our special offers and our new “Members Discount Card”  that can net you discounts at an ever-growing list of local businesses who are supporting Portsmouth Community Radio!

Tonight, in addition to conducting our Seed the Power Membership Drive, host John Lovering (above photo) and guest, Chuck Curtis; along with our phone man, Richard Jenisch will be there to receive your pledges and to entertain you with some unique Audio Theatre programming.

You will hear an original story by Chuck Curtis starring Chuck and his ten-year-old granddaughter in “Trees, Bulls and Owls.”  Not only is this a very cute story with a very important message about the environment, but Chuck’s granddaughter does an incredible job in her debut on Audio Theatre!

Then John Lovering and Chuck team up performing an original comedy by Chuck Curtis entitled  ”Auditions”…  a story about a club owner who wants to hire a standup comedian for his club, but secretly wants to be a standup comedian himself.  The only problem is that he has absolutely no talent.  Maybe the comedian he hires for his club can give him a few pointers!

This evening you will also hear several short plays that we would consider “contemporary” as they come from a series entitled Earplay and were originally produced at WHA at the University of Wisconsin in the 1970′s.  The shows were funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with additional grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Most of the writers were students at the University of Wisconsin.. the plays are crisp, unique, and extremely well done.  They were originally aired on NPR.   Our recordings are all on vinyl, so you will be hearing stories on the same medium (vinyl records) on which they were originally distributed to NPR stations almost 40 years ago.

From the Earplay series you will hear What Do You Tell the Laughing Wind? by Robert K. Anderson; A Short Sweet Life by Edna Schappert; Kindly Replace the Receiver, The Incinerator, and Alice Throu the Intercom all by Jean Raymond Maljean.

We will be airing these short plays throughout tonight’s broadcast.  Don’t miss them…. they are very well done.   And while you are listening to these unique shows on Portsmouth Community Radio Audio Theatre, please call 603-430-9722 with a pledge of any amount.. renew a membership, become a member…. listen for Pledge Drive information between the featured shows.  Please show your support for Audio Theatre and Portsmouth Community Radio.

Finally, tonight, John and Chuck will perform live in the studio … a recreation of a very funny skit by Mike Nichols and Elaine May entitled The Sixty-Five Dollar Funeral.

This all happens tonight.. Tuesday – May 10th from  6 to 8 pm at 106.1 locally or streaming online at www.wscafm.org and go to the top of the page and click on “Listen Now”.
Thank you in advance for your support.

Don’t Dis My Ability is on every other Tuesday from 3:30 to 4:15 pm, and this is an “off ” week.  But today, Ronnie Tomanio and a special guest will be sitting in from 3 to 4 pm for a special Spring Seed the Power Campaign show so that the listeners of this fine program can show their appreciation by calling 603-430-9722 and making a pledge in any amount to help keep this and the all the other wide diversity of programs  heard on WSCA-LP, on the air.

Engineer, John Lovering, will also be sitting in with Ronnie and his guest and will be continuing the efforts to help with our fund drive from 4 to 5 pm as he hosts a special “Soul Man” program loaded with some excellent soul music… and another chance for listeners to call in and contribute to Portsmouth Community Radio’s Spring Seed the Power fund drive.  603-430-9722… Please call… We need your help.

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night May 8th at 7 pm to hear a variety of political and socially oriented clips and short pieces during our spring membership drive program. Call us at 603.430.9722 and renew your membership or become a new member. Lots of fun and new benefits.
Join now!

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM – Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming via www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org for those outside the broadcast signal limits) 

Kind regards,  Brad  aka dj Big Brother
djbigbrother@portsmouthcommunityradio.org

“The people, unfortunately, are still very ignorant,
and are kept in ignorance by the systematic efforts
of all the governments, who consider this ignorance,
not without good reason, as one of the essential
conditions of their own power.”  ~ Mikhail Bakunin  1871
************************************************************************
The Free Speech Zone   with dj Big Brother
          glimpses of sanity and truth
                 Sundays  7:00-8:00 pm
   WSCA-LP   106.1 FM   
**************************************************************************
Lives In The Balance: songs of social and political import
    that you won’t hear on brain-dead corporate radio
                       with   dj  Big Brother                              
Sundays  8:00-9:00 pm  WSCA-LP  106.1 FM   
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“Do the best that you can in the place where you are and be kind”
~ Scott Nearing

SUPPORT PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO ~ JOIN NOW!

After a winter hiatus, I’m back on the air tonight!  And we’re going to Memphis.  I’ve got Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Al Green, Eddie Floyd and so much more queued up and ready to go.

 Whether you’re in your car, your kitchen, or still at the office, tune in to Soul Vaccination tonight from 6-8pm for what you need.    Only on WSCA-LP, Portsmouth Community Radio, 106.1 FM on your radio dial and streaming worldwide from www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org.  –Jenny Freeman

From: Terry MacDonald -  Host: Jazz Straightahead  (Wednesday 6-9 AM – WSCA-LP) 

The Seacoast Jazz Appreciation Project
Sunday, April 17th, 4:30-5:45 pm
The Press Room, 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH

Charlie Jennison Quartet

Note: This is a free event! However, if you wish to stay for the evening performance from 6 to 9 pm, the normal Press Room cover charge of $10 ($5 for students) applies.

The Performers/Presenters: 

Charlie Jennison: Charlie began his jazz career in 1961 playing at rotary clubs and at other local functions while still in junior high school. Moving to New Hampshire from Florida, he formed a jazz combo at the University of New Hampshire from which he graduated in 1969 with a degree in Music Education. Jennison has studied with such major jazz figures as Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Mariano. The defining moment in Jennison’s career came early in his career when he met pianist Tom Gallant, a teacher at the Berklee School of Music at that time, an alumnus of Woody Herman’s band, and, as we knew him in Portsmouth, as the leader of the host group of Sunday Night Jazz at The Press Room. Jennison played with Gallant for more than 30 years.

Mark Shilansky: One of the most in-demand pianists on the Seacoast and in the Boston area, Mark is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. He’s a graduate of both University of New Hampshire and the New Conservatory of Music, a composer, producer and vocalist as well as a pianist. He has performed and recorded with musicians and singers that include Jerry Bergonzi, Jamie Baum, Rebecca, New York Voices, Luciana Souza, George Garzone and Kenny Wheeler, to name just a few.

 Nate Therrien and Ken Clark: Bassist and drummer, respectively, both Nate and Ken are Seacoast-area jazz musicians with impressive credentials, frequent sidemen in the groups of the best jazz musicians on the scene.

If you were one of those radio “geeks“ as I during the past several decades, and a fan of  Boston Area Radio , Full-Service and Top 40 radio formats of the past, then you’ll want to tune in to the “Scratchy 45s & Beyond” show on Saturday, April 9th at 11:15 AM, as I feature Donna Halper the author of  ”Boston Radio 1920-2010“, and we chat about her latest book. 

Donna  (photo working at WNEU Music Library) will be my guest via the telephone and it is sure to be fun and interesting if you grew up loving radio when it was primarily community-based, live/local, informative and fun.  Now although many of the stations came out of Boston, in those days, it was not unusual to hear them along the Seacoast and Beyond, so they will certainly be familiar to you as well.   Donnas’ book is ”awesome“ with plenty of pictures, history, and is just a great read, written by a local radio historian.  I picked up the book, and couldn’t put it down until I read it through!

So tune in on Saturday, April 9th where we will discuss the book, radio personalities such as Arnie “Woo-Woo” Ginsburg, Dale Dorman, Charles Laquidara and from the Seacoast Area: Norm Thibeault, Tom Bergeron amongst others.  Most likely we will chat about the “fun and localism” radio once presented to all of us growing up, as we listened intently to our transistor and tube radios.  You’ll hear the “roots” of my love for radio, jingle, and Personality radio.  I am in the process of digging out some old tapes (yes I said tapes) of air checks and putting a 4-5 minute piece together of radio stations, jingles, and on-air talents I grew up with providing the path for me to become a personality radio and jingle “junkie”!  I’ve attached a few pictures for you to enjoy compliments of Donna including former WHEB-The Star Station’s personality Norm Thibeault.

Donna L. Halper

About the Boston Radio: 1920-2010

Boston’s radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America’s first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service. Nationally known bandleaders like Joe Rines and Jacques Renard were first heard on Boston radio, as was one of the first weathercasters, E. B. Rideout. The city has been home to a number of legendary announcers, such as Bob and Ray, Arnie Ginsburg, Dick Summer, Dale Dorman, and Charles Laquidara; talk show giants like Jerry Williams and David Brudnoy; and sports talkers like Eddie Andelman and Glenn Ordway. Many Boston radio personalities, such as Curt Gowdy, “Big Brother” Bob Emery, Don Kent, and Louise Morgan, found fame on television but first established themselves on Boston’s airwaves. Since 1920, Boston radio has remained vibrant, proving that live and local stations are as important as ever. For more information –  

Check out these websites: http://bythebanksoftherivercharles.blogspot.com/2011/02/boston-radio-1920-2010-by-donna-halper.html and http://donnahalper.com/