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WRBH Original Programming (7/8 – 7/12): Sushi Fest, Sue Monk Kidd and Raintree

         What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS:  Lyn Koppel interviews Development Director Whitney Armentor of Raintree Children and Family Services in New Orleans. Public Affairs airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. NOLA BY MOUTH: Host Amy Sins speaks with Chef Dirk of Rock-N-Sake and Cheryl Lemoine of the New Orleans Sushi Festival which will be held this year at the […]

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This Week on WRBH: Books (7/6 – 7/12)

          New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction - NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - PRISCILLA by Nicolas Shakespeare (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green, and starting Thursday, ONE FOR THE ROAD: AN OUTBACK ADVENTURE by Tony Horwitz (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM)Great Literature - FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelly  (M-F 8PM-9PM)Midday Short Story […]

todayJuly 6, 2015 7

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WRBH Blog: A Saturday Matinee at NOCCA (with Video!)

Brothers from the Bottom Meets The Blind Communitywritten by David Benedetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2BoY5fEm8&feature=em-upload_owner  ***This past Saturday, the WRBH staff gathered at a table in the lobby of NOCCA's Lupin Theatre and paced around the echo-prone lobby.  Our eyes were glued to the torrent of rain and wind that had decidedly settled over the city so close to showtime. We waited hoping anxiously the water wouldn't keep anyone from making it. Sure […]

todayJuly 1, 2015 10

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Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus)

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE"Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's."We will each write a […]

todayJune 30, 2015 9

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WRBH Original Programming (7/1-7/5): Object Museums, Cemetery Tours, Cava and Clear The Clutter

           What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS: This week on Public Affairs, Sarah Holtz interviews Judith Gradwohl, the Associate Director for Education and Public Engagement at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Judith tells us about Object Project, a new interactive exhibit opening July 1 that explore the ways in which ordinary household objects influenced societal transformations in the 20th century. Public Affairs airs […]

todayJune 30, 2015 20

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Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt’s personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his […]

todayJune 29, 2015 10

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This Week on WRBH: Books (6/29 – 7/5)

          New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction - NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction - PRISCILLA by Nicolas Shakespeare (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM)Great Literature - IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote, and starting Tuesday, FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelly  (M-F 8PM-9PM)Midday Short Story - NEW STORIES FROM […]

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WRBH Volunteer of the Month: June

Written by Sarah Holtz     Our Volunteer of the Month is Karen Scott, retired Spanish teacher, avid festival-goer, and trained yogi! Check out the full interview recording below: How long have you been reading for WRBH?I started reading in August of 2006. I had just recently retired from being a schoolteacher and I got to be able to do the things that were interesting. I would listen on the radio and was flipping […]

todayJune 24, 2015 7

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Natchez Burning

FEATURED FICTION"#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty […]

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About WRBH

WRBH 88.3 FM, Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the United States. At WRBH, our mission is to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

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