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Friday, 21 November 2008
05:05AM

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Arts Unscripted
WOSU's Christopher Purdy and Columbus Dispatch Arts Columnist Barbara Zuck take a weekly look at the Columbus arts scene.

Bluegrass Ramble

A Pickin' Good Time! WOSU's Bluegrass Ramble airs every Saturday and Sunday on WOSU 820, from 6 pm - midnight (Eastern Standard Time). Listen on-line and in stereo! Join Ramble hosts Rich Baker, Chet DeLong, Chris Johnston, and Steve Brechter for the best bluegrass radio in the country!

Boyce Lancaster with the Classics
Weekdays 6am-10am
Classical music, news, weather, and the "Morning Favorite" at 9 am.

Caregivers
For information on aging-related issues, listen to WOSU 820’s Caregivers, an extension of our radio series hosted by Judith Brachman, former director of Ohio Department of Aging, airing on Tuesday mornings at 8:50 am.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Columbus’ own symphony performs while WOSU’s Christopher Purdy hosts these weekly broadcasts that run from early March through June.

Fridays with George
Boyce Lancaster talks with Maestro Albert-George Schram, the beloved conductor of the CSO Pops, about composers, conductors, and the art of music-making.

Health Literacy
Along with the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging and Judith Brachman, former director of the Ohio Department of Aging, WOSU presents a Web site devited to health literacy.

Midnight Madness
Stay up late and join Christopher Purdy for periodic series of midnight programs that visit some of the most controversial and influential composers of the past and present!

Movies with Joyce and Rico

Each week WOSU movie critics Joyce and Rico Long review the latest films on WOSU 820. Joyce and Rico praise or pan the latest Hollywood blockbusters as well as lesser known independent fare showing in central Ohio.

Music in Mid-Ohio
Christopher Purdy presents Music in Mid Ohio, "the best of local music making" performed in our listening area—and occasionally outside it.

Ohio Arts Alive
Ohio Arts Alive—"A Journey with the Arts Throughout Ohio" produces between six and eight programs per calendar year. Christopher Purdy hosts this one-hour program, which discusses topics and introduces personalities active in arts-related programs from The Cleveland Orchestra to programs for imprisoned juvenile offenders.

Open Line
Weekday mornings, Fred Andrle hosts his award-winning talk program. Fred’s show features fascinating national and local guests. He guides an intelligent and balanced discussion on topics ranging from politics to literature, music to science, health to finance, and psychology to science fiction.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra
Boyce Lancaster is your host Sundays at 4pm for re-broadcasts of Timothy Russell and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra as they begin their 2nd broadcast season on WOSU 89.7.

Saturday at the Pops

Saturday at the Pops represents a classic Saturday night on the town with Boyce Lancaster.

Saturday on Stage
Saturday on Stage with Christopher Purdy offers complete operas and oratorios beginning each spring until the Metropolitan Opera begins in December.

Serenata with Christopher Purdy
Serenata is thirty minutes of song, music for, usually, solo voice and, usually, piano accompaniment. If you despair of choosing among the 500 plus recordings of Schubert lieder or you want to hear Renee Fleming's new jazz/classical album, this is a program for you.

Theater Reviews
Each week WOSU’s Theater Critic Joy Reilly previews and reviews live stage performances in central Ohio. 






 



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