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“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks

"THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND" written by Oliver Sacks   Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30-9:00pm   "An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny […]

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Weekly Schedule for 05/29 – 06/04

Weekly Schedule for 05/22 – 05/28 Announcement:  Due to rising costs, WRBH has decided to discontinue our WRBH App for iPhone & Android.  You can still access our stream online at https://www.wrbh.org/live-broadcast/ or by downloading the TuneIN or RadioApp on the App Store.   BOOKS ON AIR:  Best Selling Non-Fiction: BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP written by John Carreyrou Great Literature:  CRIME AND PUNISHMENT written by Fyodor Dostoevsky Best Selling Fiction: TFRESH […]

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“Fresh Water for Flowers” written by Valérie Perrin

  “Fresh Water for Flowers” written by Valérie Perrin Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm – 11pm (replay)  |3-4am (replay) A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A #1 international best-seller, Fresh Water for Flowers is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in […]

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Weekly Schedule for 05/22 – 05/28

Announcement:  Due to rising costs, WRBH has decided to discontinue our WRBH App for iPhone & Android.  You can still access our stream online at https://www.wrbh.org/live-broadcast/ or by downloading the TuneIN or RadioApp on the App Store.   Tulane Baseball:  Tuesday, May 23rd VS TBD | TBD First Pitch | TBD pm PregameThe AAC Tournament is taking place this week so start times may vary.More information about the Tulane Green Wave […]

todayMay 22, 2023 10

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“Crime and Punishment” written by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am | 3pm – 4pm (replay)  |2-3am (replay) Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear […]

todayMay 17, 2023 25

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Weekly Schedule for 05/15 – 05/21

Announcement:  WRBH is still in the process of evaluating the total extent of the damage caused by a bullet at our transmitter site.  We hope to have more information soon as to when repairs can take place to restore our broadcast signal back to full power (100 mile radius).  For now, we are still operating at about a 5 mile radius from our studio on Magazine St.  If you are […]

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“The Sirens of Titan” written by Kurt Vonnegut

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:00am - 5:00am “[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—EsquireNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, […]

todayMay 10, 2023 22

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Weekly Schedule for 05/08 – 05/14

Announcement:  Thank you to everybody who donated on GIveNOLA Day!  Because of your efforts, WRBH raised a record $23,700!  This money will go towards repairing our transmitter, so that we can restore our broadcasting abilities back to full power.  We are forever grateful for your support. :) Tulane Baseball:  Tuesday, May 9th @ South Alabama | 6:30 First Pitch | 6:15 pm PregameFriday, May 12th VS. Houston | 6:00 First […]

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“The Hubris of an Empty Hand” written by Dr. Mahyar A. Amouzegar

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm-11pm (replay) | overnight @ 3am-4am (replay) In eight ethereal stories, The Hubris of an Empty Hand encompasses the frailty and complexity of being human. When some divine gifts fall into decidedly earthly hands, the results are almost beyond reckoning for humans and gods both. Through its wide cast of characters and fascinating settings, terrestrial, divine, or somewhere in-between, Mahyar A. […]

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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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