WFIU

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WFIU Public Media has been broadcasting from the Bloomington campus of Indiana University since October, 1950. The station is a charter member of the National Public Radio network, and along with 90 other stations, it carried the premiere broadcast of NPR's in-depth news program, All Things Considered, on May 3, 1971. WFIU now broadcasts classical music, jazz, and news and information 24 hours a day. WFIU can be heard throughout Southern and Central Indiana: * 103.7 FM | Bloomington * 100.7 FM | Columbus * 101.7 FM | French Lick/West Baden * 98.9 FM | Greensburg * 106.1 FM | Kokomo * 95.1 FM | Terre Haute and on WFIU2 * 101.9 FM | Bloomington * and online at wfiu.org. Our mission: We inspire, inform, and involve. Our values and activities are born of the purposes and hopes of Indiana University and of our listeners. For us, this work is a public trust.

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Today’s performers bring to life the music of the past on Harmonia—a weekly, one-hour radio program that explores music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and beyond. Join host Angela Mariani each week for an hour of exciting recordings, interviews, live excerpts, and commentary as she invites us to fire up our historical imaginations and spend an hour in the contemporary world of early music.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Jun 27, 2023
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One-hour programs of early music, Harmonia casts new light on music of the distant past.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Jan 30, 2017
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Celebrating the music of living composers.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: May 23, 2012
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Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Nov 14, 2022
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Night Lights, is a weekly thematic one-hour jazz radio program hosted by jazz aficionado David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from the 1945-1990 era.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Jul 25, 2022
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Enjoy these special editions of Night Lights -- a weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on classic jazz from 1945-1990. Visit our online archives and the producer's jazz blog at: http://nightights.blogs.wfiu.org

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Mar 21, 2017
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In the tradition of a classic children's program, PorchLight with Tom Roznowski is a story time for grown-ups, filled with explorations and discoveries offered by the everyday. Original stories, discussions, and recorded music from a wide variety of genres create a sweet hour-long escape from whatever ails you.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Sep 03, 2020
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On Profiles, we talk to notable artists, scholars, and musicians and get to know the person behind the persona.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Apr 19, 2012
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Security Matters – a series of public service audio segments addressing specific cybersecurity threats or vulnerabilities.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Dec 02, 2010
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A one- or two-hour, weekly program, The Soul Kitchen blends sweet soul, funky jazz, old school rock, Americana, and world music into a flavorful gumbo for the ears and spirit. Mixing these genres of sound with a dash of message gives listeners a menu of music that comes from the soul. Join host Brother William Morris for tunes with a groove and music with a message.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Jul 25, 2022

Latest Pieces

Caption: Novelist Jacinda Townsend (Courtesy of the author)
A conversation with novelist Jacinda Townsend about her new novel, which tackles the subject of motherhood from two perspectives on different sides...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
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On Harmonia this week: it’s episode number one thousand . . . and we’re celebrating by going medieval, or mostly anyway, podcast-style, with my gue...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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While incarcerated at Fleet Prison, English composer William Cornysh wrote a long poem, A Treatise between Information and Truth, which drew upon m...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Ms. Flinora Frazier (nee Meyers) meeting Langston Hughes (Courtesy of Flinora Frazier)
Three stories. One about the challenges of accessing books in prison. One about how overlooking a neighborhood’s history has affected the place. On...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Writer Michael Martone outside the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Jeremy Butler)
Writer and teacher Michael Martone on fiction without narrative, teaching without grades, and writing about Indiana beyond corn, basketball, and su...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:02
Caption: Jacobs School of Music Dean Abra Bush (Courtesy of the Jacobs School of Music)
Abra Bush, the new dean of the Jacobs School of Music, says conservatories are going to have to go beyond the Western canon to stay relevant to up-...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
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Disney. The soundtrack of our childhood. This week on Afterglow, in honor of Disney's 100th anniversary, I’ll explore the jazz side of Disney songs...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Seigen taught Jack about the variety of sassafras leaves (Kit Boulding)
Jack was studying vocal performance when he met Seigen at the local Zen center. They became good friends. They took walks, stopping to look at ever...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:31
Caption: Activist and scholar Micol Seigel (Micol Seigel)
We think of the foster care system as being about care. Micol Seigel says within the system people do care for each other. But it’s primarily about...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Susan Neiman (Courtesy of the Indiana University Patten Foundation)
Philosopher Susan Neiman on why the left should be wary of wokeness, how Germany’s reckoning with its past has become more complicated, and why the...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:30