Have you been intimately confronted with the dying   process?  What can we say to someone who is dying?  How can we break the news of our own impending death.

On the next “What Can I Say?” radio broadcast join us for a sensitive look at the dying process and how we can communicate with one another during this heartrending and sometimes beautiful life passage.

Our guest will be Portsmouth Regional Hospital neurologist Patricia Locuratolo.   Earlier this year, Dr. Locuratolo hosted a panel  discussion in York, Maine in response to a controversial article that had been printed in The New Yorker magazine entitled: “Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?” by Atul Gawande.

Please join us to explore these issues.  We will be taking phone calls on this broadcast, so if you listen live we may be able to speak with you on the air.

To read more about Dr. Locuratolo’s panel discussion visit: Dealing with destiny and end-of-life care

To access the article by Atul Gawande in TheNew Yorker, go to: Letting Go
Tune in in the Greater Portsmouth, NH area on 106.1FM on your radio dial or worldwide at: http://portsmouthcommunityradio.org 

 And remember, you can always listen to our show ANYTIME in our archives at What Can I Say Radio Archives     

I hope you have time to tune in.  I’d love to hear from you with any comments or suggestions.
Rob Kanzer  Email: RobKanzer@RobKanzer.com

Join host John Lovering for a relaxing two hours of classic old time radio programming combined with anecdotal information about the stars, directors, writers, and sponsors… and maybe a couple of surprises tossed in for good measure.   Tonight we are featuring two classic detective shows, a down home American folk show, and a juvenile adventure series… bring back some memories or experience audio theatre from the Golden Age of Radio for the first time, but tune in and bring a friend!

More details and photos available on tonight’s show here: http://heirloomradio.com/audio_theatre_page.htm

Listen locally at 106.1 FM or streaming live online at www.wscafm.org and click on “Listen Now” at top of page.

Comments, requests, information about our Audio Theatre Players…  email: jlovering@wscafm.org

Join Portsmouth Community Radio!   Become a member!   www.wscafm.org and click on “Join Online”

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night August 28th at 7 pm to hear David McNally ~ When People Take Over.  In these times of crisis and calamity, where can we look for hope & encouragement? According to David McNally, people are coming together and creating exciting new democratic practices in locales around the globe. He points to grassroots experiments in radical democracy and truly participatory decision making in places like Tunisia, Egypt, Oaxaca, and Cochabamba. David McNally is the author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance PM Press, 2010.

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

Then stay tuned for some great music on Lives In The Balance from 8 to 9 pm.

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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“Do the best that you can in the place where you are and be kind”
~ Scott Nearing

 John Dehner stars as Paladin in a 1959 episode of the classic western, Have Gun Will Travel, entitled Helen of Abajinian (30 min) .  This radio series, that actually came after the CBS TV series began, rivaled Gunsmoke in terms of the quality of the script, acting, sound effects, and music.  We have aired many episodes of this series since 2004, but have not repeated one.  Fortunately the shows were aired at a time when technology allowed the preservation of the shows.  If you remember Richard Boone’s portrayal of “Paladin”, you will be surprised to hear John Dehner’s play the same character, but in a very different way.

The Milton Berle Show featured the ex-vaudevillian in a weekly comedy variety show jam packed with his rapid delivery of punch lines… some of them actually ones that he wrote… lots of funny characters and banter between guests, announcer, and Milton.  Each show also featured a theme comedy skit and tonight’s is A Saltue to the Old West,  and it originally aired on CBS in October of 1947 (30 min).   Though Milton Berle was moderately popular on radio, because his humor included a great deal of visual touches, he didn’t really make it big until he moved to television.  He was so popular on TV that he is credited with selling more televisions than all the brick and mortar stores combined, that is why he is often referred to as “Mr. Television.”

Our very own WSCA Audio Theatre Players recreate an Antony Ellis’s thriller that was heard both on Escape (1953) and Suspense (1955) and is entitled  I Saw Myself Running (27 min).  This show was recorded on August 11, 2011 and will be aired for the first time tonight.  It is a mesmerizing story of a young wife named Susan who is plagued by a recurring nightmare dream in which she meets a woman who looks like her, but has a different voice.  The woman in the dream is constantly running from a dark and ominous cloud-like creature that is chasing her through long, damp, and endless passageways.  Susan begins to blur the line between dreams and reality and then she…. well you have to tune in to find out what happens.

This play features (above photo l-r) Kim Sedlock as the Sue, the girl in the dream,  Sofia Piel as Susan,  Mike Nelson as Jeffrey, Susan’s husband, and  John Lovering (not shown.. for good reason) as Dr. Williams.  The show was directed and edited by John Lovering and contains over 30 sound effects, musical bridges, special audio effects… a great script, terrific acting, very interesting sound effects and musical score (created with computer software - Smartsound and Sony) make for, what we think, is an excellent and rather unnerving show.   Be sure to listen in… this is Community Radio Arts and Entertainment by local non-professional actors… who do a terrific job!  Incidentally, the show was so frightening that even the actors were scared!

We will also air Clayton “Bud” Collyer starring in  The Adventures of Superman, Episode V of “Airplane Disaster” from May of 1940 (10 min)

Listen live locally at 106.1 fm or streaming online at www.wscafm.org and click on “Listen Now” at the top of the page.  More info: www.heirloomradio.com    Questions? Comments? Show Requests? - Email: jlovering@wscafm.org

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night August 21st at 7 pm to hear Bob McChesney’s Media Matters interview with Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How  Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. The title says it all!

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM - Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming viawww.portsmouthcommunityradio.orgfor 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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On Paws Thoughts today, host Jean Proulx welcomes Mark C. Robinson who is the founder and president of HandicappedPets.com and the inventor of the Walkin’ Wheels adjustable dog wheelchair.  Mark created the website to support caretakers of elderly, disabled, and special needs pets; providing them with the products, services, and support they need.

He invented the Walkin’ Wheels in response to comments from the community of caretakers that utilize the website. Mark is also the founder of the Handicapped Pets Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to providing dog wheelchairs to families with financial hardships.

Previously, he was VP Sales and Marketing for Nextek Power Systems and Director of Operations for Advanced Energy, both renewable energy companies. Prior to that, he was president of Computer & Network Services, a technology consulting firm. He has also been involved in businesses related to magazine publishing, printing, computer accessories,  software development, mailing list
management, and alarm systems. He is widely known for developing “Computer Empowerment Seminars,” a method of computer training that succeeded by changing the way people feel about technology. He has written several books including “Dancing with Computers; do you still scream when you see a mouse?”.

Mark is also president of The Energy Grid; a company that designs and host websites, and provides search engine support services for companies in the renewable energy industry.

Mark has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern NH, is a licensed master electrician, LEED accredited (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a Reiki practitioner. He lives in Amherst NH.

An interesting guest and an interesting topic… listen locally at 106.1 fm or streaming live online at www.wscafm.org and click on “Listen Now” at the top of the page.

CBS Radio’s acclaimed series that took listeners back to historic events.  Using popular news commentators, historic events were recreated as if the listener was teleported back in time and the event is being reported as if it were taking place in the present.

Tonight’s show is a compilation show featuring excerpts from some of the most famous events in history as “reported” on CBS radio and “You Are There!”.   Entertaining AND Educational   Original  Air Date: 11/6/47

Elliot Lewis is the host and narrator of this excellent series that brought the listeners back to some of the most famous crimes ever committed.  The scripts were well-researched and historically accurate in every way.  The sound effects and music reflect the period in which the crime of the evening took place.

Tonight’s Show: The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer’s Daughter”
Original Air Date:  11/25/53

A spin-off from the Jack Benny Program, this sitcom starring bandleader Phil Harris and his  movie star songstress wife, Alice Faye and  featuring Elliot Lewis as Frankie Remley will have you laughing out loud.   Show title: “ Health Food Diet”   Original Air Date: 11/21/48

Clayton “Bud” Collyer stars as the man of steel AND Clark Kent in this 1940 series of The Adventures of Superman. Tonight hear Episode 4 of 6 with the title  ”Airplane Disaster”    Original Air Date: 5/1/40  Remaining episodes will be aired next week.

SPECIAL ADVANCED NOTICE:  August 23rd - Our very own WSCA Audio Theatre Players will star in a revival of a Suspense tale known as I Saw Myself Running. This mesmerizing story concerns the blurring of the boundary between a recurring nightmare and reality… and features Kim Sedlock, Sofia Piel,  and Mike Nelson (photo l-r).  The program was directed and edited by John Lovering. Don’t miss this one… it is something really good on radio!

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone  on Sunday night August 14th at 7 pm to hear a Francesca Rheannon - Writer’s Voice interview with David Graeber, author of DEBT: The First 5000
Years. Graeber talks about his fascinating study of, and polemic on, debt.  It’s about the role of debt in human society and what to do about it today. How real is the debt? And what’s the “debt crisis” really about? David Graeber says that debt has been with us since the beginning of money, in fact, the first form of money was debt, as it is today, and, without it, such things like markets, the military and the state, would not be possible.

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM - Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming viawww.portsmouthcommunityradio.org for those outside the broadcast signal limits)  Then stay tuned for some great music on Lives In The Balance from 8 to 9 pm.

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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From the University of Wisconsin’s WHA radio series of the 1970′s comes EARPLAY, a collection of contemporary audio plays that were originally aired on NPR.  Tonight you hear a now famous actress, Kathy Bates, when at the age of 30 she starred in an EARPLAY production entitled “The Porch.”  The play is set in th backyard of a middle-class Texas home. Pearl, the younger sister, is preparing a going-away party for her older sister, Jewel, a beautician who is bored with small town life and is heading off hopefully to the big city. As the two bustle about setting out food and putting up decorations, their conversation reveals progressively more and more of their differences and dreams…and of the emptiness which has pervaded both their lives.  This is an extremely well-done play by writer Jack Heifner.  It originally aired on February 12, 1978.  It runs 55 minutes.

Mr. Vincent Price as Simon Templar, “The Saint” - Originally a series of novels by Leslie Charteris, Simon Templar, better known as The Saint, also starred in seven RKO movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s.  The Saint was known as the “Robin Hood of Modern Crime.”   He’s usually sharp enough to stick to slinging witty words like arrows, but sometimes thugs required a few slugs that were readily delivered by The Saint.  Tonight listen to a show originally broadcast on April 8th, 1951 entitled “The Ghost Who Came To Dinner.”

Fannie Brice stars in her most well-known role on radio, Baby Snooks.  Hanley Stafford plays “Daddy” Lancelot Higgins in a skit heard during the Maxwell House Coffee Time Show on February 12th, 1942… two years before Fannie Brice got her own show… this skit is entitled “Tent in the Living Room.”

Tune in to The Free Speech Zone on Sunday night August 7th at 7 pm to hear Robert Scheer, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the progressive online news site Truthdig.com & David Dayen, political writer at FireDogLake.com discuss how “The Debt Deal Was Capitulation Not Compromise”. Originally broadcast on Uprising Radio on August 1st. The debt ceiling-deficit reduction deal will cut at least 2.4 Trillion in spending and the debt ceiling will be raised by about $1 trillion immediately, a short-term increase to avoid default.

On WSCA-LP 106.1 FM - Portsmouth Community Radio (streaming viawww.portsmouthcommunityradio.orgfor those outside the broadcast signal limits) 

Then stay tuned for some great music on Lives In The Balance from 8 to 9 pm.

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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