Homegrown Radio for West Marin

 

KWMR is non-commercial, community radio,

offering a wide range of information and entertainment from our studios at The Creamery Building, overlooking downtown Point Reyes Station, California.

Program Schedules are available

at West Marin Post Offices, Libraries, and online. We'd love to hear from you... contact the staff.

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Programming Highlights

 

Wednesday, July 9

10 am “Turning Pages: Waves of Joy.” Leonard Mlodinow, author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.

 

 

Thursday, July 10

12 pm “Commonweal Conversations.” Charlotte Brody talks with Annie Leonard about “The Story of Stuff.”

 

 

Friday, July 11

1 pm “Heading Home with Mike Litchfield.” Rebroadcast from last Saturday, July 5 — “Whither Housing?”

 

 

Saturday, July 12

 

 9 am “Original Minds” with Elia Haworth. She talks with Jim Kravets, editor of the West Marin Citizen, about the paper’s first year and life as the editor of a “small-town” weekly newspaper.

 

11 am “View Point with Ellen Shehadeh.” Novelist Donna George Storey, widely published erotica writer, discusses her first novel, Amorous Woman, a modern retelling of a 17th century Japanese novel of “the pleasure quarters.” The heroine experiences every flavor of erotic pleasure Japan has to offer, and the book has been described as “literary erotica at its best.” Donna George Storey lives in Berkeley and has taught English in Japan (like her heroine) and Japanese at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. She has a Ph.D in Japanese literature from Stanford University.

 

 

Sunday,  July 13 is Jazz Heaven…..

12 pm “Riverwalk Jazz.” The lazy days of summer

 

1 pm “Jazz Rhythm.”  Obscure bands of jazz & swing.

 

2 pm “Jazz with Kendrick Rand.” Standards with a jazz leaning.

 

 

Tuesday,  July 15

10 am “Turning Pages: For Children of All Ages” with Reader Kathy Munger.

 

Thursday,  July 17

2 pm “Classical Thursday: Music of the Last 100 Years.” Geoff White presents “Ten Thousand Ugly Ink Blots” by Na Hyo-shin; “Sonata for Pianoforte” by Leo Sowerby; “String Quartet 1931” by Ruth Crawford; and more.

 

 

 

Day & Time Changes

On Tuesdays “Musical Varieté” with Charlie Morgan goes to 9 pm, and “Faultline Radio” with Jaime Crespo runs 9 pm to midnight.

Now on Wednesdays Tony Palmer and his “Sonic Sunspots” air 10:30 pm to 1:30 am.

 

 

Mondays at 1 pm

“West Marin Matters”

features four local hosts examining different aspects of our West Marin environment and the ways we live in it:

 

1st Mondays “Ocean Currents” with Jennifer Stock;

 2nd and 4th Mondays “Post-Carbon” with

Bernie Stephan & Bing Gong;

3rd and 5th Mondays “Think Local First West Marin”

with Amanda Eichstaedt.

 

And Mondays at 5 pm don’t miss “Trash to Treasure”

with Madeline Hope & George Hope!

 

 

NEW:

Sundays, 12 pm “Riverwalk Jazz”

 

Sundays, 10 pm “Hearing Voices”

...bringing you the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, radio dramas, features, and found-sound.

 

Sundays, 11 pm “Vinyl Café”

 

Thursdays, 5:30 pm “Speaking of Faith”

 

Saturdays, 10 am "Heading Home" with local host

Mike Litchfield

(alternatimg with “A Pair o’ Docs”)

 

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FREQUENCY CHANGE!

KWMR, Bolinas has moved to 89.7 FM

(90.5 FM Point Reyes remains the same)

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KWMR Vehicle Donations

Do you want to help KWMR with winter broadcast expenses? If you have a car, boat, truck or other vehicle that does not run, is a gas hog, or otherwise obsolete, consider donating it to KWMR.  You will receive a receipt for tax purposes and we will receive the revenues when it sells at auction. Cars don't need to run or pass smog and our representative will make arrangements to pick it up before the end of the year.

Call 888 KWMR AUTO to make the convenient arrangements.