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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12 Pieces

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: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: radio talk show host Adam Klugman, award-winning poet Anis Mojgani, musical guests Blind Pilot.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker
Musical guests Blind Pilot, Radio host Adam Klugman, Poetic force of nature Anis Mojgani.

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Matthew Inman, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests Include Matthew Inman (Creator of The Oatmeal), Essayist/Artist Margaret Malone, and musical guest Dolorean

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: AGESANDAGES, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include writer and filmmaker Jon Raymond, the Third Angle Ensemble with composer Eve Beglarian and 7 piece band AGESANDAGES.

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Willy Vlautin, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include Willy Vlautin, novelist and frontman for Americana band Richmond Fontaine, Authors Jamie Ford and Jennie Shortridge from Novel:Live ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: 3 Leg Torso, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include filmmaker Taggart Siegel w/ beekeeper Jacqueline Freeman, MusicFest NW organizer Trevor Solomon, and musical guest 3 Leg Torso.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mimicking Birds, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: writer and therumpus.net founder Stephen Elliott, Harriet Fasenfest and musical guests Mimicking Birds.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Erin McKeown, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: rising star filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, food critic Karen Brooks and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Johanna Stein, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author David Oliver Relin, storyteller and NY Times columnist Johanna Stein plus Seattle alt-country act the Moondoggies.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gus Van Sant, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Filmmaker Gus Van Sant, Carrie Brownstein from the IFC series "Portlandia", world music drummer Obo Addy.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1