Radio Free School: Recent Episodes
Randy Kay
Making Trails
Series:RADIO FREE SCHOOL
Featured Speakers/Commentators:Ian Reid
Summary: Weekly half-hour radio by, for, and about un-schoolers
Credits: interview - Ian Reid - Spencer Creek Trail (Dundas ON)
ambient - kids on the Spencer Creek trail
music - Everyone, Van Morrison, Moondance
tech - Beatrice Ekoko, Randy Kay
Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever theres trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you cant make a move without a form.
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners.
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ARCHIVAL INFO (no longer current) BELOW
Every Wednesday at 12 noon to 12:30 pm (EST) on CFMU 93.3 FM - Listen live on the web at http://cfmu.mcmaster.ca;
also on:
Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
Fredericton, New Brunswick on CHSR 97.9 FM www.unb.ca/chsr/home.html
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph Ontario, Canada. www.cfru.ca/
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
and searchable for download at www.radio4all.net
Feminist homeschooling with Nina Packebush (of TheEdgycatin' Mama Zine)
interview - Nina Packebush (writer) - Kay children
edits - Beatrice Ekoko
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and then let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker.
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home
Learners.
First aired on CFMU 93.3 FM
MP3 shows searchable for download at www.radio4all.net
also aired on:
Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
interview - Gordon Korman (author) - interview by Evelyna Kay, Beatrice Ekoko http://gordonkorman.com/
music - Tom Waits, Straight To The Top (Rhumba); Innocent When You Dream (78), Franks Wild Years.
edits - Beatrice Ekoko
*"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!"
Ms Frizzle (the magic schoolbus)*
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners.
MP3 shows searchable for download at www.radio4all.net
also aired on:
Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
cartoonin'
interviews - Gord Pullar, Madeleine Kay, Roy Carless, Joe Ollman, Jack Lefcourt ( from "Tooning In: Political Cartooning in Hamilton and Beyond"), Evelyna Kay on Calvin and Hobbes.
"The Crazy Show" - by Madeleine and Bronwyn
music - "Bubblegum," Sonic Youth, EVOL
trip - mountsberg wildlife centre - http://www.conservationhalton.on.ca/ recounted by Madeleine and Bronwyn
editing - Beatrice Ekoko, Madeleine and Randy Kay
"what, me worry?"
Alfred E. Neuman
rfs - lessons from Red Hill Valley (First aired Wednesday, November 5 on 93.3 CFMU FM, Hamilton, Ontario)
voices -
Brigette.
Officer Dave Place and Dave Kaoble (chained to a tree).
Susan Byron.
Reverend Canon Patrick Doran (St. Paul's Anglican Church) speaking to reporters before being arrested in the valley, November 4, 2003.
Evelyna on the day's events at Red Hill.
Madeleine (6) and Bronwyn (5) on an afternoon at the Longhouse on their birthdays.
Reverend Patrick Doran after being un-arrested by police after police vehicles were surrounded by peaceful crowd singing "Amazing Grace."
Engineering Professors Brian Baetz and Bob Korol on a new alternative to building an expressway down Red Hill Valley.
music -
"He's a keeper of the fire" Buffy Sainte-Marie, Best Of Buffy Sainte-Marie.
"All the trees will clap their hands" (?) sung at Red Hill Valley.
"Invention no. 3: Swirling Leaves" by Gordon A. McKinnon, performed by Evelyna (seven-years-old)
Drumming in the Longhouse by Gathering Thunder Drum (St. Catherines, ON)
"Stomp Dance" Robbie Robertson, Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
tech -
Randy Kay, Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
RESISTANCE AT RED HILL VALLEY - How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
Radio Free School - Originally aired on CFMU 93.3 FM in Hamilton Ontario, Wednesday, August 20, 2003
music - Legal/Illegal, Ewan MacColl, Best of Broadside
interviews - kids aged 8 to 11-years at Greenhill Avenue supporting efforts to prevent the Red Hill Creek Expressway from ruining their play area/lungs/quality of life, etc.
music - parkette, Bob Snider, Caterwaul & Doggerel
interview - Heather Wilson & children at the Greenhill Community Garden of Hope, and Heather at Dufferin Construction Headquarters "cementing our memories"
music - The World Turned Upside Down, Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
interview - Don McLean (Friends of Red Hill Valley) and Larry DiIanni (city councillor and chair Expressway Implementation Committee) about the threat of civil suits levelled at protesters by the city...and anarchy.
music - Out of nothing comes nothing, Randy, You Can't Keep a Good Band Down
interview - The need to act, Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
music - We shall not be moved, SNCC Freedom Singers led by Rutha Harris, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966.
interview - Joe Staruck, neighbour whose property backs onto the proposed construction site for the Expressway on-ramp at Greenhill
music - Know your rights, the Clash, Combat Rock
interview - Brian Tammi, picket at Albright Road on the first day of blockades.
music - Which side are you on? Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
interview - Ken Stone, on the megaphone (that rhymes!)
music - Will the circle be unbroken, Jimmy Collier and the Movement SIngers led by Diane Smith Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966.
tech - randy
RFS report from red hill valley "Camp the Ramp" pro-valley protest camp, July 4-6, 2003.
interviews
mish-mash of sounds including a guided hike in the valley (Don McLean and others), music at the Amp the Camp music festival on Saturday, featuring Rex Barger (singing), Steve Fuller (fiddle) and Tim McCarroll-Butler (singing and guitar) - [Thanks to Teal for filling in with guitar and vocals!]
speech by Hamilton Mayoral candidate David Christopherson.
Interviews with campers and camp visitors about the proposed Red Hill Creek Expressway and efforts to block construction.
tech - sound recordings by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko, Madeleine and Randy Kay, the MMR crew, edits by Randy.
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Home Learners
*"How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?"
Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond.*
This week the kids want to learn about Poop. So we dive right in...
Interviews:
- Ian Kerr-Wilson, curator Museum of Steam and Technology guides us through "Sitting Pretty: the history of the toilet"
- Rodrigo Venturelli, Plan B Organic Farm talks about the closed-loop of poop
Music:
- "A piece of pie," The Frantics, Boot To the Head.
- "The Faucets are dripping," Malvina Reynolds, The Best of Broadside.
- "25th Floor," Patti Smith, Easter.
Poetry:
- "The Gardener" Shel Silverstein, Falling Up.
Tech:
- Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
- Randy Kay
A short clip from a larger conversation on the role of Neighbourhood Associations as advocates in the city.
To hear the full discussion, check-in at https://anchor.fm/citycast/episodes/3--Interview-with-Michael-Borrelli-from-the-Beasley-Neighbourhood-Association-elubc4/a-a3nu52j
First aired, December 25, 2002 on cfmu 93.3fm
Winter's view - oral history of winters in early 20th Century rural Ontario.
interview - Mary Margaret May Kay (b.1910 d.2007)
music - "River," Joni Mitchell, Blue
"1913 Massacre," Woody Guthrie, Hard Travelin'
"Maple Sugar," performed by Steve Fuller
tech - randy kay
interviews:
- Beverly Shepard, Diane Shepard
music
- "To have and to have not" Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
- "What did you learn in school today?" Tom Paxton, Best of Broadside
tech
- beatrice ekwa ekoko
"REBELS - young activists from the struggle for Red Hill Valley"
(Hamilton ON Canada)
interviews/vocal interventions
- Rae Mitchell
- Keisha Quinn
- Brian Tammi
- Julianna LaChance
- Alex Patterson
- Evelyna Kay & Hamilton Mayor Larry Di Ianni at the Mayor's new year levee recorded
by Gord Pullar * Bronwyn, Madeleine, Evelyna Kay. (Interviews by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko)
music
- Get on Board, Children, Willie Peacock, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American
Freedom Songs 1960-1966. * K.S.E. Promise Song, Raffi, Raffi on Broadway
tech - Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko, Randy Kay
"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!"
Ms Frizzle (the magic school bus)
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all-volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners.
ORIGINALLY AIRED Wednesday, January 28, 2004 on CFMU
interviews
- Evelyna Ekoko-Kay(age 7) - walking sidewalks, walking trails.
- Two people we met in town who had been hiking at Webster falls but now couldn't find their car (...we gave them directions).
- Rebecca Solnit, author "WANDERLUST: A History of Walking"
- Susan Thomas, letter carrier.
music
- "Walking Blues" Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers
- "Mailman," Woody & Arlo Guthrie and the Guthrie Family, Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs
poetry
- "Jerusalem," William Blake, Great Poets of the Romantic Age. Read by Michael Sheen.
movie review
- "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," reviewed by Madeleine Kay (age 5).
tech
randy kay
ORIGINALLY AIRED Wednesday, June 11, 2003, on CFMU 93.3 FM
Take the power back! - homeschooling
interviews
Kelly, Amica (17) and Mich (14) Hilton, homeschoolers
music
"Take the power back" Rage Against the Machine.
"Save the World" composed and performed by Evelyna Kay (6)
review - Llewellyn, Grace. "The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a real-life and education" Lowrey House, Eugene Oregon, 1991. Review by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
Tech
Randy Kay
the scary [hallowe'en] show!
spoken word:
- "Cemetery Soup*" James Haskins, from MOANING BONES: African American Ghost Stories.
- "Little witch's big night" by Deborah Hautzig, illustrated by Marc Brown (Read by Stoney)
- "How jack-o-lanterns came to be*" adapted from Zora Neale Hurston, MULES AND MEN
- "Hallowe'en [history]*" from Robin May, FESTIVALS: HALLOWE'EN
- "Pumpkins for Peace?" Written by Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) http://www.ncf.ca/coat (used with kind permission!) -(Read by Beatrice)
*read by Mr Scary P.Umkin
music
- "scary improv music" - evelyna: piano, madeleine: violin, bronwyn: percussion and ooooos. beatrice: howls, yelps and screams. randy: occasional barks.
- "Five little pumpkins" Raffi, SINGABLE SONGS FOR THE VERY YOUNG.
- "Where did you sleep last night" Lead Belly, GOODNIGHT IRENE
- "Hey dickwad/Snake in the Store" Mark Korven, CURTIS'S CHARM soundtrack.
tech
randy kay
originally aired Wednesday, October 30, 2002 on CFMU 93.3 FM
LEAVES
interview
Bruce Duncan, Hamilton Conservation Authority
music
- fall, Vivaldi
- piney wood hills, Buffy Saint-Marie
tech
randy kay
TALKING UN-SCHOOLING
interview
Monique and Sean Atherton, Byron Zorzos, Kelly Hilton.
music
- "The Laws of My Administration," Groucho Marx, from the film Duck Soup,
- "What did you learn in school today?" Tom Paxton, The Best of Broadside.
- "Swirling Leaves," Gordon A. McKinnon, performed by Evelyna Kay
- "In taberna quando sumus," Carl Orff, Carmina Burana.
- "Hello, I must be going," Groucho Marx, from the film Animal Crackers
book review
The Brothers Lionheart, Astrid Lindgren, reviewed by Evelyna Kay
tech
beatrice ekwa ekoko, randy kay.
Originally aired Wednesday, May 14, 2003 on CFMU 93.3 FM
MATH WALK WITH RON LANCASTER
Creative ways to learn math in the real world
interview
Ron Lancaster, Independent Mathematics Consultant, Hamilton, ON
riddles
- evelyna, madeleine
music
"Number Three," Ben Harper, The WIll To Live
"Legal - Illegal," Ewan MacColl, Selections from the Best of Broadside 1962-1988
tech
beatrice ekwa ekoko, randy kay
Originally aired Wednesday, April 30, 2003, on CFMU 93.3 FM
magical, mystical, magnificent mathematics! Part two of four
interview
William Higginson, Faculty of Education, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario)
music
"Attention to Deficit" and "Pause Song" by WARSAWPACK Gross Domestic Product
tech
Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko, Randy Kay
Originally aired Wednesday, February 26, 2003, CFMU 93.3FM.
Magical, mystical, magnificent mathematics! (part one of four)
interview
William Higginson, Faculty of Education, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) .
music
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"five little frogs," Raffi, Singable Songs for the Very Young
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"sad song", Evelyna Kay, piano.
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"99 1/2 won't do," Alabama Christian Movement Choir led by Carlton Reese, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Black America Freedom Songs 1960-1966.
tech
Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko, Randy Kay
Originally aired on CFMU 93.3 FM, Wednesday, February 19, 2003
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all-volunteer show by, for and about Home Learners. Check out our Natural Born Learners blog at radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/
PREVIOUSLY AIRED ON
- CFMU 93.3 FM
- Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California
- CHSR 97.9 FM, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio
- Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan
- Search episodes at radio4all.net
"Education, with its supporting system of compulsory and competitive schooling, all its carrots and sticks, its grades, diplomas, and credentials, now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of [human]kind" Holt, J.
Year 1, Show 8: Looking Back/Stolen Spaces: the Lost Geography of Children's Space
interview
"Growing up 'wild' in Hamilton's east end during the 1930s depression." Ken Hall, Remedial Action Plan for Hamilton Harbour.
story
"The Streets Are Free" (original title "La Calle es Libre"). Story by Kurusa, Illustrations Monika Doppert, Translation Karen Englander. Annick, Scarborough, 1985.
music
"parkette," Bob Snider, Caterwaul and Doggerel
"Cayambeno," Sisa Pacari, Wardance Against the Invaders
"Every Ghetto, Every City," Lauryn Hill. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
tech
Randy Kay
Interview
- Jean Johnson, Naturalist (featuring a guided walk through Cootes Paradise Nature Sanctuary)
Music
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Victoria Williams "Hummingbird", from Musings of a Creek Dipper
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Saint Saens "The Birds" and "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals
Review - Atwood, Margaret. "For the Birds" Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 1990. Review by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko and Evelyna Kay
Tech - Randy Kay