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“Cat’s Cradle” written by Kurt Vonnegut

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:00am – 5:00am “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times  “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget […]

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Weekly Schedule for 06/12 – 06/18

Announcement:  Next week is Book Week! A time where we replay some of our favorites from years’ past in place of our regular regular programming. Stay tuned for what announcements about book selections and schedule changes.   BOOKS ON AIR:  Best Selling Non-Fiction: Beginning Tuesday...THE YELLOW HOUSE (replay) written by Sarah Broome Great Literature:  CRIME AND PUNISHMENT written by Fyodor Dostoevsky Best Selling Fiction: FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS written by Valérie Perrin Contemporary Classics: Beginning Tuesday...CAT'S […]

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“Tales from Earthsea” written by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Featured Young Adult Literature Saturday & Sunday @ 9:30-10:00am The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) This collection contains the novella "The Finder," and the short stories "The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose […]

todayJune 6, 2023 10

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Weekly Schedule for 06/05 – 06/11

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: FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS written by Valérie […]

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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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Featured Book: Fresh Water for Flowers

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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 11

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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 […]

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