On this week's show you'll hear sophisticated jazz from Cab Calloway and the Bebop Cowboys, emotional gospel from the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and classic country from Hank Snow and Jake Vaadeland. We've also got a Texas blues musician who was so off kilter even blues fans make fun of him. All from the show that's been declared Best Blues or Related Music for 2026 by the National Community Radio Association. So there.
Backbeat is also available in a 56 and 58 minute versions in three separate files if you want breaks. I am happy to provide custom station IDs, promos and liners. Email Lorne@Backbeatradio.com or visit www.backbeatradio.com for more information.
A newborn baby.
Tiny fingers.
A mother’s trembling smile.
The quiet miracle of life arriving in a world that does not deserve it.
Caroline Leavitt welcomed her daughter into that miracle,
a moment every parent understands,
a moment that softens even the hardest truths.
And yet, in that same breath, she defended the killing of 168 girls in Iran.
One mother celebrating new life,
while justifying the erasure of other mothers’ children.
A contradiction so sharp it cuts the air around it.
But contradictions don’t end there.
Because while the world watched,
President Trump rejected Iran’s ceasefire proposal:
a proposal that could have slowed the bleeding,
paused the fire,
given families a moment to breathe.
And it forces a question that refuses to stay quiet:
Who is really benefiting from this war?
Not the families.
Not the soldiers.
Not the people living under the sky where the missiles fall.
No — the ones who benefit are the richest in America,
the ones who profit from chaos,
the ones who turn war into revenue.
Meanwhile, in the north,
Hezbollah’s drones continue to grind Israel down,
not with spectacle,
but with exhaustion.
A slow, relentless pressure that drains resources,
stretches defenses,
and exposes the limits of a military machine
that once believed it could not be challenged.
And while that pressure builds,
another structure is cracking:
AIPAC, once untouchable and unshakeable,
is fading.
Not collapsing in a single moment,
but eroding under the weight of public scrutiny,
generational change,
and a country that is no longer willing to pretend
that influence is innocence.
Kars for Kids… donate your car today.
A tune we all know.
A tune that hid a scandal.
A charity that wasn’t what it claimed to be.
A reminder that even the simplest melody
can disguise a complicated truth.
And speaking of truth,
there is one more name you may be hearing today.
Jonathan Paz.
A congressional candidate many in Massachusetts have been talking about.
If you want to meet him,
he will be at Café Yafa in Natick tonight, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
You can ask your questions,
share your concerns,
or simply see for yourself who he is
and what he stands for.
If you have thoughts, I want to hear them.
Email me at TWIPpodcasts@gmail.com and tell me how you see it.
This is This Week in Palestine.
The genocide in Gaza was enabled, facilitated and cheerled by establishment media. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah dissect the mechanics of propaganda with media analyst Adam Johnson. He’s the co-host of the podcast “Citations Needed” and author of “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza.
On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s Jon Elmer reports on FPV drone strikes and the escalation of guerrilla warfare in week ten of Hizballah’s defense of south Lebanon.
Saif Abukeshek, an activist from the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza kidnapped by the IDF in international waters, sends a message to the world to rise up for a free Palestine after his release from Israeli prison.
In Qasem Waleed El-Farra’s article ‘Gaza’s painful journey’, vehicles, fuel and small change are in short supply. Palestinians are left with walking.
Sonic Café that’s Mr. Roboto, the iconic techno-rock hit by Styx from 1983, so thanks for dropping by our quirky, little cyber café. I’m your host Scott Clark, and this is episode 483.
This time the Sonic Café dives headfirst into the metallic heart of the machine uprising, with a show we’re calling, Invasion of the Robots. We’ve uploaded a high-voltage music mix spanning 45 years of the digital revolution. Listen for electronic new wave from Gary Numan, futuristic indie rock from The Flaming Lips, St. Vicent’s satirical take on digital culture, plus Arcade Fire, Icehouse with Electric Blue, Big Data, Nine Inch Nails and more, tech-infused tracks.
Wedged in between we’ll slip in comedy shorts featuring hilarious warnings about our future dominated by the machines. We’ve wired it all together in one seamless stream of laughs, beats and digital dread.
So strap in for a high voltage journey into our circuit-blazing digital future, as the Sonic Café presents, Invasion of the Robots, from our little Pacific Northwest radio café, where even the coffee maker seems just a bit to self-aware.
From 2001 this is Arling & Cameron with the Dirty Robot, and as always, we’re the Sonic Café.
Our guest in this program was Dr. William Fry, a psychiatrist who has done extensive research in the field of humor. We discussed the psychology and genetics of humor. Much of Dr. Fry’s research has concentrated on Cocoa, the gorilla, and we discussed that as well. This program was originally broadcast in March of 1992, when Radio Curious was called Government, Politics and Ideas.
Originally Broadcast: March 2, 1992
"Bitter Cane," a must-see documentary, is streaming now on Criterion.com
Kim Ives, who directed the film along with Ben Dupuy, was interviewed on The Taylor Report.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. France 24, NHK Japan, Germany, and Cuba.
Looking forward to seeing you LIVE under the big tent for Pat Chessell, The Barra MacNeils, Whiskey Dicks and more. It's ScotFestBC, Town Centre Park in Coquitlam, June 19th and 20th. This hour, music from across the Celtic diaspora including Canada's best, even some Kreole to spice up the mix. Patricia Fraser hosts Celt In A Twist Radio!
With a great chart comes great responsibility. We skim off and countdown the top ten from our new monthly Top 30. Get yours straight to your inbox @ worldbeatinternational.com. Plus, fresh spins right out of the wrapper from Ghanaian trumpeter Berima Amo, Albertan songwriter, now broadcaster Kue Varo and tropical futurism from Colombia's Rizomagic. The best beats come home to World Beat Canada Radio!
It's a early 1960s teenage angst/drama filled show this week as we profile a few hit wonder who liked sailor boys back then...groovy 70s hits made the cheezy way and why you shouldn't talk to a life guard....cause a particular teen wants to... it was a different era.
Iran War Week 11: Media Ignores Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza; Trump’s Social Security Administration Downsizing Demolishes Customer Service; Opposition to Resource Hungry Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Spreads Across the U.S. Like Wildfire.
On the anniversary of his passing, in May, 2025, we present an hour-long conversation with Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o about the first volume of his memoirs, “Dreams in a Time of War." A rare and moving insight into all that went into shaping one of the most beloved progressive writers in the world today, a testament to the power of storytelling and dreams in human life and the striving to birth a new and better world. Plus a brief musical tribute to the great jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln.
If you haven’t yet personally witnessed the very odd feeling of driving up to a four-way stop sign only to realize that the vehicle across the street from you has no driver behind the wheel, chances are you will soon enough. Like it or not, autonomous vehicles are coming, and this week on Sea Change Radio we are speaking with Samuel Abuelsamid, an expert on self-driving technology. We take a look back at the evolution of autonomous vehicles, examine the purported “full self-driving mode” offered by Tesla, and discuss some of the sustainability issues surrounding this technology.
This episode The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: An Afternoon with Rashid Khalidi.
Professor Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Colombia University.
The event was recorded on March 29, 2026 at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn. and was co-sponsored by First Unitarian Brooklyn’s chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, New York City DSA Anti-war Working Group, and Brooklyn for Peace.
The talk is a conversation between Professor Khalidi and Reverend Meagan [MEE-gan] Henry from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, followed by a Q&A session.
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
