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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Fundraising Materials for Live Wire

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639 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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Specially-themed episodes


Pieces

Caption: It's amazing how life affirming it is to talk about dying people with Peter Richardson., Credit: Jennie Baker
Guests Include Documentary Director Peter Richardson (How to Die in Oregon), Museum founder and non-car traveller Boaz Frankel, essayist Margaret M...

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Other than some very serious and beautiful songs, David was a crackup!, Credit: Jennie Baker
Guests Include Author/Sexual Revolutionary Susie Bright, Poet Matther Dickman, and musical guest songwriter David Bazan.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Beth showed us why her SF Porchlight reading series has a reputation for being so funny and smart..., Credit: Jennie Baker
Guests include Author Mike Sacks, Humorist / Essayist Beth Lisick, and musical guests Celilo (Americana rock and roll)

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Todd Haynes, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Filmmaker Todd Haynes, Author Anne Lamott and musical guest Sophe Lux.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chelsea Cain, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: New York Times bestselling thriller author Chelsea Cain, essayist and blogger Stacy Bolt and musical guest Holcombe Waller.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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 peice band AGESANDAGES.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rocky Votolato, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests Include: inventor of the Wiki, Ward Cunningham, Oregon Book Award finalist Emily Chenoweth and musical guest from Seattle, Rocky Votolato.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andre Dubus III, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Acclaimed author Andre Dubus III, storyteller Roey Thorpe and musical guest Tony Furtado.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Priory, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Artistic Director of the acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, indie filmmaker Matt McCormick, musical guests the indescribable Pr...

Bought by WCPN, WNJR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Live Wire! cast, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: the multitalented Christine McKinley of the History Channel's "Decoded", author and Americana expert Kurt Reighley, with musical gu...

Bought by WCPN, WGBH Radio Boston, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3