Blue Light Central

Sundays, 8 to 9pm PST

Every week, the big blue train we call the Blue Light Central rumbles out of the station for a two-hour ride through a landscape of blues, classic R&B, soul, gospel, zydeco and low-down boogie. Mark Drnek is your ticket agent, porter, engineer, brakeman and conductor on a weekly excursion through the vast music landscape.

His virtual blues train has been thundering through the trails of FM radio for nearly 16 years, having first made its home in the roundhouse of commercial radio before making the switch to public radio where it chugs along happily today.

With over 700 shows done and no sign of the train slowing down, there’s bound to be some great tunes on the track ahead. So tune in to hear the next show! Many ride’s even have themes, like the ABCs of Blues or tributes to amazing artists. So climb aboard and punch your tickets to musical bliss!

http://bluelightcentral.com/

Radio Curious

More than 500 half hour interviews on a curiously wide array of topics concerning life and ideas. These programs are a gift to you from Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel. He started Radio Curious in 1991 to expand the work he began in 1974 as an Attorney and Counselor in Ukiah, California, the Mendocino County seat, located about 110 miles north of San Francisco, California.

http://www.radiocurious.org/

Sundays, 5:30 – 6pm

Time of Useful Consciousness

When looking for a name, I came across a pilot’s handbook and found the acronym TUC, an aeronautical term. “Time of Useful Consciousness” is the time between the onset of oxygen deficiency and the loss of consciousness. These are the brief moments in which a pilot may save the plane.

TUC Radio continues to report on the untold story: the impact of the big corporations on society.

Maria Gilardin learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and was one of the founders of the women’s department. She co-wrote the GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of the International Forum on Globalization.

http://www.tucradio.org

Sundays, 5 – 5:30pm