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September 5, 2008
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American Routes


A weekly excursion into this country’s rich and diverse musical styles and traditions, American Routes also introduces the audience to the music makers with interviews and profiles of featured artists. The program is produced in New Orleans and hosted by Nick Spitzer.



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 WKSU 2 News:
BBC World Service
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Classical Music with Bob Christiansen



Later Today On WKSU

9:00
Folk Music with Jim Blum

Join host Jim Blum in discovering the best from the world of folk music, featuring the work of legends and others devoted to acoustic sounds.



Saturday On WKSU

12:00
Folk Music with Jim Blum



1:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



5:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



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BBC World Service


For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.



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 WKSU On Air:
American Routes
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Classical Music with Bob Christiansen



Saturday On WKSU 2

12:00
BBC World Service

For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

5:00
BBC World Service

For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

6:00
On The Media®



7:00
Living On Earth®

Steve Curwood hosts NPR’s weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Classical Music
With Bob Christiansen

8:01
Francesco Corbetta: Caprice-Chaconne (Ensemble Kapsberger)


8:06
Frederic Chopin: Polonaise #6 "Heroic" (Van Cliburn, piano)


8:14
George Frideric Handel: The flaming rose (Louise Pellerin, oboe)


8:21
Eric Coates: Covent Garden (East of England Orchestra)


8:26
Enrique Granados: Intermezzo (I Musici de Montreal)


8:33
Niels Gade: Symphony #8 (Stockholm Sinfonietta)



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 WKSU On Air:
American Routes
 WKSU 2 News:
BBC World Service



Saturday On WKSU 3

1:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



5:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



6:00
Classical Music with Gillian Martin



12:00
Classical Music with Mindy Ratner



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Some Kind of Trick

This season suggests innocence. And this story reveals a person who take advantage of such innocence. A town wants something of its own to celebrate, and Ernie, an opportunist of high caliber, finds he is in the right place with the right idea. Of course, he gets his just desserts, avocados, from a very unexpected source..


STORY by Doug Sutherland
MUSIC by Bert Solis

Cast:
Doug Sutherland - Author,    storyteller
Paula Duesing - God

 


Doug Sutherland - Author, storyteller
Doug "Rabbit" Sutherland, born on a Montana ranch, began his radio and television career after high school, in Helena. While attending classes toward a Broadcast Journalism degree at the University of Utah, he worked at several Salt Lake City stations, and returned to Montana at the age of 23 as the youngest part-owner, general manager of a radio-TV station in the history of the industry. Leaving Montana on what he calls a 40 year working vacation, Doug was owner and general manager of KRIZ in Phoenix, and, after its sale, a talk show host at KGO, in San Francisco, where he earned credits toward a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology at U.C., Berkley. He went on to host morning shows at WFFM in Pittsburgh, WLTF in Cleveland, and talk shows at WABC in New York. Other stops in his career include radio jobs with Clear Channel in San Antonio, and building log cabins on Montana's Flathead Lake. Over the years, he has written and voiced numerous stories for National Public Radio. Doug's writing credits include, Dear Friend, a book of letters, and The Bunny Who Grew Up Well, the source of his nickname, "Rabbit." His first newspaper column, "Second Hand American," was published during the nation's bi-centennial, and his current syndicated column, "Minister of Reality," a 5-stanza poem of cultural satire, has been published since 1990. His stories, poems, and essays have been read in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun Times and other national publications. A serious cyclist, he's peddled across the country several times, owns no television, is an avid cook, and, according to friends, is still a dork. In 2004, Doug returned to Phoenix to concentrate on his public radio work and other projects.




Bert Solis - Music


Paula Duesing - God
Paula Duesing has lived and worked in the Cleveland area for the last thirty years as a freelance voice-over talent and actress. She's performed at Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama Theater, Ensemble Theater, and Actor's Summit, of Hudson, in many varied roles from the young, beguiling Barbara Allen in Dark of the Moon to the brassy harridan Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe. Even raising her baritone voice in song at Cain Park in Fiddler on the Roof. She's also produced a number of productions under Actor's Equity Association, the professional actor's union. As an AFTRA voice-over talent she has done hundreds of local and national commercials as well as non-brodcast narrations, most notably as the voice of the Omnimax Theater at the Great Lakes Science Center. She's even occationlly appeared on camera. Her most recent project is a pilot for t.v. filmed in Cleveland, "The Rudy Connelly Story", which is just getting "shopped around" in LA.

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