Radio Waves

About a month ago, as we were first descending into Covid isolation, I received a text from a friend in Canyon in the form of a simple website link. The…

Screaming Lord Sutch broadcast on 194 metres from the south tower of Shivering Sands. According to Bob LeRoi, the transmitter, from a Handley Page Halifax…

I’m Jonathan Baker, a writer from Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk a little about this month’s Radio Readers Book Club selection, which is…

This is Leslie VonHolten with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte. “Quacks, yodelers, pitchmen, psychics, and other amazing broadcasters of the American…

Take that, you hucksters! This month, as I thought about trying to come up with something remotely scintillating to say about BORDER RADIO, I had trouble…

This is PJ Pronger from Amarillo with an HPPR Radio Readers BookByte. The third and final selection for this season is “Border Radio” by Gene Fowler and…

As entertaining and enjoyable as I found Gene Fowler’s “Border Radio” my senses perked up at two different tones of voice on two different stories. One…

This is Nicole English coming to you from the Sociology Department at Fort Hays State University for HPPR's Book-Bytes. This is a discussion of the book,…

I’m Jonathan Baker, a writer from Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk about this month’s Radio Readers book club selection, Edward R. Murrow and…

Hi, I’m Valerie Mendoza talking to you from Topeka about Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards. One of the selections for…