Tag: West Virginia Public Radio Presents

Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance

As American founding father, and second U.S. President, John Adams noted: “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives”. In honor of this weekend’s Memorial Day celebrations, we’re traveling the world for musical reflections, tributes and remembrances of those who gave their lives, for their country, and wise words on the importance of such patriotic acts. Beginning in our own United States, we’ll be touring Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, w/ a special tribute to our original celebration of ‘Decoration Day’ in Civil War days.

Tune in for this special Memorial Day programming Thursday night at 9.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Do Millennials Stand A Chance? On Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared U.S. brings Oxford-style debating to America — one motion, one moderator, two informed and provocative panelists for the motion, and two against. John Donvan of ABC News — Nightline is the official moderator of Intelligence Squared debates. The debate series takes on the hot-button issues of the day to inform, enlighten and entertain.

Join us Thursday night at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Motion: Millennials don’t stand a chance.
Millennials—growing up with revolutionary technology and entering adulthood in a time of recession—have recently been much maligned. Are their critics right? Is this generation uniquely coddled, narcissistic, and lazy? Or have we let conventional wisdom blind us to their openness to change and innovation, and optimism in the face of uncertainty, which, in any generation, are qualities to be admired?
Moderator: John Donvan
Speaking for the motion: Binta Niambi Brown, Lawyer, Startup Advisor & Human Rights Advocate; W. Keith Campbell, Professor of Psychology, University of Georgia & Co-Author, The Narcissism Epidemic
Speaking against the motion: David D. Burnstein, Author, Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World &Founder, Generation18; Jessica Grose, Journalist & Author, Sad Desk Salad

Latin American Storytelling on Radio Ambulante

In this one-hour special, Radio Ambulante presents the best English-language stories from its first season with reporting from North Carolina, Chile and Mexico.

Tune in for Radio Ambulante, with host Martina Castro, Thursday night May 8, at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Featured stories:

  • The Forbidden Word – This story takes place in Durham, North Carolina. In 2000, after an itinerant life with his mother in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina, Reza Salazar landed in the Carolinas. As he struggled to adapt and learn the customs of his new home, there was one word his new friends told him he could never, ever say.
  • Phantom Team – Back in 1973, the Chilean coup cast a pall over the entire country, as the Chilean military detained anybody suspected of opposing the dictatorship. Thousands were disappeared and tortured and killed. Yet in the middle of all that, life went on in some bizarre ways. A few weeks after the coup, Chile’s national soccer team faced a play-off game in Santiago against the Soviet Union. The winner would go to the 1974 World Cup, in Germany. The loser would stay home. The game would take place in the very stadium where prisoners were detainted and tortured.
  • Delfín Vigil on growing up in the Mission – The son of a Jehovah’s Witness, who abruptly renounced the faith, moved the family to the suburbs and changed their lives completely.
  • Felipe Montes – Felipe Montes had lived in the US illegally for almost a decade when he got deported back to Mexico. The deportation separated him from his wife and kids still in the US, and landed the children in foster care.

Gluten Free? Why bother?

     America’s Test Kitchen has been the number one cooking show on public television for 14 years. (The January 2014 Nielsen rating was a heavyweight 1.68 with 2.3 million viewers per week.) But America’s Test Kitchen Radio was launched just two years go.

The first 2014 radio special investigates the mysterious, perplexing world of gluten-free baking. Gluten, the essential protein in wheat flour, creates structure and helps baked goods rise. Without it, cookies spread like hot lava, breads rise up out of their loaf pans, and pizza tastes like crackers.

Over 18 months of hard test kitchen work and scientific exploration led to a whole new approach to gluten-free baking including new techniques, unusual tricks, and a different approach to ingredients. The test cooks even figured out how to make a great chocolate chip cookie — you know, the kind that you would really want to eat!

A book about this process, with over 100 recipes, was published March 1, 2014 — The How Can It Be Gluten-Free Cookbook.

America's Test Kitchen Talks to Author of "In Memory's Kitchen"

On America’s Test Kitchen, we speak to Cara De Silva, the editor of In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin, a cookbook written by starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Theresienstadt. Find out how these brave women used their culinary heritage as an act of defiance by talking about food and trading recipes.

“for these women when they were doing this it was a form of resisting psychologically, of reinforcing who they were and they were using recipes as defensive weapons…”

This special America’s Test Kitchen airs Thursday, May 1, at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Also in this hour:
—Call-Ins with Host Christopher Kimball and Culinary Expert Bridget Lancaster: Chris and Bridget take calls from listeners and answer their cooking questions.

—Taste Test with Jack Bishop: Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of frozen French fries.

—Gopnik on Food: Food Writer Adam Gopnik talks food with host Christopher Kimball about the end of the Supermarket era.

—Recipe Challenge: Test cook Dan Souza uncovers the secrets to making an old fashioned favorite, Chuck Roast in Foil.

Poetry on State of the Re:Union

Hear the latest radio special in honor of National Poetry Month Thursday, April 24 at 9 p.m. 

In addition to being a public radio host, Al Letson is also a poet, playwright, and actor.

In this hour-long program,  Letson will explore all facets of poetry. Poets from all over the country will speak about the craft, the lifestyle, and the resurgence of poems.

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