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Fresh Air Weekend

Listen on KEDM Ideas:
  • Saturday 6-7pm

Look to Fresh Air Weekend for highlights of some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Fresh Air Weekend emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. Many of the most popular reviewers from weekday Fresh Air can also be heard on Fresh Air Weekend sharing insights into recent movies, music, and books. And there's more. Special segments, including reviews of recently released videos, have been added to the program. Fresh Air Weekend is everything you already love about Fresh Air -- tailored for Saturday and Sunday.

Friday Folio

KEDM's News and Public Affairs department produces this weekly information magazine providing in-depth coverage of regional topics.

Hearts of Space

Listen on KEDM:
  • Sunday 11pm-Monday 12am
Hearts of Space weaves together quiet, contemplative contemporary electronics, classical adagios, soft jazz, space-creating sounds from many world music traditions, and the very best of the new age genre. Producer Stephen Hill billboards it as "slow music for fast times."
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Interfaith Voices

Listen on KEDM Ideas:
  • Sunday 10-11am

Interfaith Voices is an innovative and growing public radio show, reframing the discussion of religion in our society.  It explores the full range of faith traditions, promoting interfaith dialogue, respecting diversity and fostering religious tolerance and offering compelling discussions of contemporary issues in religion, spirituality and ethics.

Jazz with Bob Studebaker

Bob Studebaker joined the staff of WDUQ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in December 1997. He hosts DUQ's morning jazz program, Monday through Fridays from 9 a.m. to Noon, and also serves as the station’s production director. Bob is a Pittsburgh native. In addition to his independent work in audio production, he has worked since 1980 with various radio stations in the Pittsburgh market including WNUF, WWCL, WXXP, WORD, WQKB, WMXP, and WJJJ. With an avid interest in history, Bob has taught the "History of Jazz" at Carnegie Mellon University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning, tracing the roots of jazz from 17th century West Africa to the many influences and experiences that have contributed to the evolution of "America's classical music."

Jazz with Helen Wigger

Helen Wigger has been a member of the JazzWorks team since the network’s start in 1998 as a host and to providing operational support. Some of Helen's favorite jazz artists include Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington. Helen owes her love to all types of music to her mother, an art and music teacher. Over the past thirty years Helen has been a jazz host at various stations including WEKU-FM in Richmond, KY; WUKY-FM in Lexington, KY; and WDUQ-FM in Pittsburgh, PA.  In addition to her shift on JazzWorks Helen is the Operations Manager for 90.5 FM Essential Public Radio in Pittsburgh, PA. A native of Springfield, Ohio, Helen is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky.  She enjoys her free time listening to music, going to jazz events, sports, and spending time outdoors.

Jazz with Helen Wigger and Bob Studebaker

Listen on KEDM:
  • Sunday 7-10pm
  • Monday 7-10pm
  • Tuesday 7-10pm
  • Wednesday 7-10pm
  • Thursday 7-10pm

Jazz on KEDM features music by the masters and new artists, with engaging and enlightening hosts Helen Wigger and Bob Studebaker, as well as topical information for the Jazz listener.

Artists include Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday, Max Roach, Herbie Mann, Dianne Reeves, Ray Charles, Art Pepper, Harry Connick, Jr., The Modern Jazz Quartet, Paul Desmond, Shirley Horn, Benny Carter, Charlie Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Turner, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Etta Jones, Wes Montgomery, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Abdullah Ibrahim, Red Garland, Scott Hamilton, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and many, many more.

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Jazz with Scott Hanley

Scott has experience in most aspects of broadcasting, especially public radio, in a twenty-plus year career. A former reporter, arts producer, music director, news director and program director, he is active with a number of influential public broadcasting organizations and is a regular leader or panelist at national conferences. A trained musician, Scott had an active performing career in years past, including vocal work in choral, operatic, musical theater and jazz combo settings, plus instrumental work as a trombonist. Although he performs infrequently, he is most likely to be heard these days singing jazz in a small group setting.

Lagniappe

  • Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. and 4:50 p.m.

The people, events, and issues of our region are discussed with area writers, artists, entertainers, and newsmakers. Archived editions of Lagniappe are available in our Listening Room.

Le Show with Harry Shearer

Listen on KEDM Ideas:
  • Sunday 10-11pm
  • Saturday 10-11am
A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer. The program is a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy. Shearer, an impressionist who is probably best known for his voice work on The Simpsons, writes the sketches and usually performs all the voices.