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Arts & Ideas Radio

Jay Allison


Jay Allison, host and executive producer.
Viki Merrick, producer.

Jay Allison, hosts a 4-hour collection of programming you don't tend to hear anywhere else - local and national documentaries, sound portraits, music specials, political lectures, whatever seems worthy each week. Sometimes choices come up at the last minute so check back for updates: Sundays 7 - 11PM.

This Week's Show

November 22, 2009

7PM: Autism: the grit and brilliance of Temple Grandin
8PM: How Moby Dick explains Barack Obama: Dartmouth scholar Donald Pease in conversation with Christopher Lydon
9PM: DEBATE: Good riddance to mainstream media
10PM: By Force of Talent: bassist Oscar Pettiford - an NPR Jazz profile

Program Archives, our listing of past shows

For more information about the Arts & Ideas production team and the work of many of the producers featured on Arts & Ideas see the following links:

Atlantic Public Media

Transom.org
A showcase and workshop for new public radio programming.

Public Radio Exchange
Many programs on Arts & Ideas come from the Public Radio Exchange, a project of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, in cooperation with WCAI/WNAN/WZAI. The PRX is a somewhat revolutionary online distribution system which lets listeners hear a great range of programming, and also allows public radio stations around the country to download and broadcast it. If you heard something on Arts & Ideas, chances are you can find it on the PRX. Click here and type in a few keywords in the search engine to find it. While you're there, browse around. You can write reviews of programs you like which helps public radio programmers know what the audience is thinking. The motto of the PRX is: 'What do YOU want to hear on the radio?

Cape Artists

Audio-Slideshows

Local Commentaries

Cape & Islands Voices

NPR Books & Music



Sudden Fiction

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