A couple of spooky new spins to awaken the Samhain spirit; Louise Bichan shares a good old fashioned Scottish Murder Ballad while the Real McKenzies retell the ghost story of The Mad Trapper Of Rat River. Shooglenifty take us on a deep dive from Stamina Island, plus a set from Baltic Crossing and Celtic Cross. Join Patricia Fraser for an hour of Nu-Celtic. Celt In A Twist!

The world would be a better place if customer service played better music while you’re on hold. Take an hour to breathe in aural relief from new albums by Balthvs, Lagos Thugs, Zerzua and BaBa ZuLa, Latin flavours from Panasoma, Zuco 103 with Lee Scratch Perry and Algerian power pop from Souad Massi. Thanks, we’ll connect you now to World Beat Canada Radio!

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Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of October 8th to the 15th, 2026.

The Saudis serving the West are now in a jackpot, thanks to Ansar Allah.

If you are a liberal NGO neo-colonial interventionist, you will love Nobel winner Navi Pillay.

Giving a little love this week to a guy who didn't get a lot of respect as a celebrity in the 80s...well, so he said anyway, we go south of the border for a few instrumentals and still with the 80s, a scandal of religious proportions and the record that summed it all up.

The old Western imperialist camp, though wars and provocations, is close to destroying the United Nations.

The first part of our show features Nicole Mikhael—the founder of Reconstruction After Cancer (RAC). RAC funds cancer survivors reconstructive care when insurance doesn’t cover the cost because feeling confident matters too. RAC was created by Nicole Mikhael after her own breast cancer and reconstruction journey at 26yrs old. Knowing firsthand that being cancer-free doesn’t always mean the journey is over, she created RAC to help make reconstructive care possible for survivors when insurance doesn’t cover the cost. The second part of our show features John Hope Bryant discussing the future of Black wealth taken straight from our conversation at the 2026 Congressional Black Caucus. While speaking to Arizona State University Students in a lecture hall in Washington, D.C., John discusses what Black youth can do to ensure fiscal viability and maintain fiscal responsibility well into the future.

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Craig Steven Wilder, talks about “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities,” which uncovers the truth about race, slavery and the academy. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid professors. George Prochnik: When It's Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig. In the 1930s, Stefan Zweig was the world's most-translated author. He spent the final months of his life furiously writing a memoir - a warning to the future.

Trump-Allied Oligarchs Cleared to Take Over Entertainment and TV News Behemoth; New Data Finds Cities Collaborating with ICE Offers No Shield Against Violent Street Raids, Arrests; Rehabilitating Richard ‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon: GOP’s Scheme to Normalize Trump’s Lawlessness and Corruption.

Jay and Johnny discuss the AA fifth step.

Despite Carney's talk, Canada is in-step with the United States & Japan in undermining EV production. Plus: More unions are stepping up in solidarity with Palestine.

As we approach the midterm elections, the increasingly desperate, despotic, and diminished President of the United States is more unhinged than ever - saying he can do whatever he wants and repeatedly suggesting that Iran bomb San Diego and Los Angeles. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with opinion journalist John Stoehr of The Editorial Board to get his insights into the decomposing brain of Donald Trump and to contemplate what it means for this country. We discuss the role of the press in enabling the current state of affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., examine options for Democrats if they're able to regain power in November, and speculate on what lies ahead for the Republican Party after the Donald has gone.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

1-21, 22-28 1. Nu Vintage - Off The Backboard 2. Konteks - Sands of Futures 3. Phil Tyler x the intern - We Got It Goin' On 4. Mr. Goldenfold - Coast 5. Bugseed - creation 6. Move Da Beat & Vibin' - Delusions 7. yungmerrin - purple skies 8. twuan & Cultura - Sidewalk Static 9. NOTHINGISREAL - Momentary 10. Flowz & Vibin' - Straight Steezin 11. Maple Syrup & igory - Black Buds 12. KLIM x NINETOFIVE - Cinematic 13. HAJÉ - Kirikou 14. Toonorth - Badlands 15. Takeshi - Steady state 16. Moody. - Days Abroad 17. 7th Realm - Understand 18. Sineg - Brooklyn 19. Gaslamp - Living Proof 20. Kiezin - On This World 21. Knowsum - U Still Can B --Orange Ease Tape Arrival 1. Dingbat - Jah Freedom 2. Autumn Flurry -KLIM & Keyness 3. spies - Hg 4. Dreamzzz - Demoh Beatmaker 5. Amber - Leavv, Makzo 6. I Confess remix - The Roots 7. catsitting - dxgree 8. idontwantloveagain - Psalm Trees feat. Alexander

This week all the latest tunes submitted to the station including songs from the new Junior Sisk project, the brand new Kristy Cox project and multiple singles just coming into the radio statio.

Abigail DeRoberts speaks with Tre’vell Anderson, executive director of the Trans Journalists Association, about challenging media bias, supporting trans journalists, and transforming how transgender lives and communities are represented in the news. The program also features transgender person speaking from a 1968 KPFA broadcast preserved by the Pacifica Radio Archives. In NewsWrap, protests erupt in Taipei following police raids on LGBTQ+ venues; openly LGBTQ+ candidates make gains in Brazil’s elections as the right-wing Liberal Party strengthens its congressional position; LGBTQ+ voters prepare for the U.S. midterms amid debates over transgender rights; advocates spotlight the challenges LGBTQ+ survivors face in seeking domestic violence support; and a record number of school book bans puts LGBTQ+ stories among the targets of growing censorship.

By far the longest official war in US history is its 20-year assault on Afghanistan. President George W. Bush began it, on grounds the Taliban refused to surrender Osama Bin Laden, who claimed credit for attacking the US World Trade Center and Pentagon. Ten years later, under President Obama, Bin Laden was found and killed; yet the war continued another ten years. Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy denounced that war as futile and inhuman from its beginning. In this program, Roy reads her essay War is Peace, in which she dissects the fallacies - and the greed - behind that war (and all others).