Live Wire! Radio

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Live Wire artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy from all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Hosted by Luke Burbank (Wait Wait... Don't Tell MeCBS Sunday Morning), the show is taped in front of a live audience in Portland, Oregon and reaches over 300,000 listeners via 150 public radio stations across the country (including WAMU in DC, KUOW in Seattle, KJZZ in Phoenix, Minnesota Public Radio, and more).

Past guests include writers and authors such as George Saunders, Cheryl Strayed, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lindy West, Chuck Klosterman, Salman Rushdie, and Gary Shteyngart; performers and comedians John Hodgman, Paul F. Tompkins, Abbi Jacobson, Michael Ian Black, Jackie Kashian, Naomi Ekperigin, Ian Karmel, Phoebe Robinson, Andy Kindler, and Reggie Watts; and film directors Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, Lynn Shelton, and Chapman & Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country). Past musical guests include Helio Sequence, The Dandy Warhols, Meklit, Laura Gibson, Open Mike Eagle, Pink Martini, Jonathan Coulton, and Bilal, to name a few.

Series

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11 Pieces

Fundraising Materials for Live Wire

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637 Pieces

Live Wire artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy from all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. NOTE: This program is available to PRX affiliates. For more information please email memberships@prx.org.

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Fundraising spots that promote the importance of public radio!

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From the comfort of their own homes, this six-week series features Live Wire Radio host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello chatting with guest about their current projects, while also addressing how they are responding to and engaging with the current social climate.

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18 Pieces

Specially-themed episodes


Pieces

Caption: Actor & Author Stephen Tobolowsky, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Stephen Tobolowsky - Actor & Author Paige Parker - Memoirist Luz Mendoza - Lead singer of Y La Bamba

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KWMR, 90.5 WESA, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sexologist Cheryle Cohen Greene, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL COHEN GREENE - Sexologist & Author MATTHEW DICKMAN - Poet CHRISTINE MCKINLEY - Writer, Musician, Mechanical Engineer PURE BATHING CULTURE...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, KWMR, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Sexologist Cheryle Cohen Greene, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL COHEN GREENE - Sexologist & Author MATTHEW DICKMAN - Poet CHRISTINE MCKINLEY - Writer, Musician, Mechanical Engineer PURE BATHING CULTURE...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Young Evils, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAN WIEDEN - Co-founder of Wieden & Kennedy STACY BOLT - Essayist THE YOUNG EVILS - Musical Guests

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Young Evils, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAN WIEDEN - Co-founder of Wieden & Kennedy STACY BOLT - Essayist THE YOUNG EVILS - Musical Guests

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KWMR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN - Actress, singer and author LOIS LEVEEN - Author FEDERALE - Musical guests

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
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CARRIE BROWNSTEIN - Actress, singer and author LOIS LEVEEN - Author FEDERALE - Musical guests

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: NPR's White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ARTHUR BRADFORD - Documentarian ARI SHAPIRO - NPR's White House Correspondent THOMAS LAUDERDALE - Pianist for Pink Martini SARAH JACKSON-HOLMAN ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: NPR's White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ARTHUR BRADFORD - Documentarian ARI SHAPIRO - NPR's White House Correspondent THOMAS LAUDERDALE - Pianist for Pink Martini SARAH JACKSON-HOLMAN ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service, KWMR, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Swedish singer, Jens Lekman, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things JACK OHMAN - Editorial Cartoonist JENS LEKMAN - Swedish musician

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 1