Podcast

Swallow
Main Stage West
January 11th – 27th, 2019

A California Premiere by Stef Smith.

Stef Smith’s Swallow is a play about three women dealing with psychological trauma and striving

An Evening with Swami Beyondananda
Laguna de Santa Rosa
Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Join “cosmic comic” Swami Beyondananda for an evening of heart-opening laughter, and mind-expanding comedy, and

Tamed and Untamed, Close Encounters with the Animal Kind. Suzanne Lang talks with two of the world’s most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. They have collaborated on

 

 

 

More than just adoption, explore the vital services that strengthen the bond between pets and their families in Sonoma County. 

 

 

 

Tapas 13th New Short Play Festival
Pegasus Theater Company
September 13 – 28, 2019

Six dynamite plays performed by six terrific actresses. That’swhat the 13th annual

Tapas Short Play Festival 2018
Pegasus Theater Company
September 21st – October 7th, 2018

What do the following have in common: a dedicated but woefully underpaid community college professor; a

In recent years, when you entered the Spreckels Performing Arts Center’s Codding Theater you found yourself in an undersea world, or on the deck of the Titanic, or in Philadelphia’s Independence

Task Force on the Americas Annual Dinner
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin
Saturday September 21, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Our guest

Taste & Toast
L’chaim Harvest Celebration
Shone Farm
Sunday, September 8, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Mouthful welcomes Doug Swett and Liza Hinman of the once and future Taverna Santi. The Geyserville restaurant closed late last year and will reopen April 2010, next door to Traverso’s, on

Hummingbird in Underworld, Teaching in a Men’s Prison ispoet Deborah Tobola’s memoir of working in

Kids are back in school now. But in at least one district,the teachers’ union is still battling over salaries and benefits, asadministrators offer what amounts to a pay cut.

The

The start of the school year can bring excitement oranxiety. On the North

Telegraph Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Brave New Music will host the San Francisco-based Telegraph Quarter on its chamber music series, now in its fifth

Ask anyone under fifty years of age who Rosemary Clooney is and they’re likely to respond “George Clooney’s wife?” They’d be in the ballpark (she was his aunt) but what they

For the past four hundred years, the groundbreaking Italian artist, Caravaggio, has challenged, intrigued, and transformed us. Suzanne Lang talks with Terence Ward on his book that combines memoir, history, biography, and journalism, The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life.

 

Suzanne also talks with author Eugenio Volpe on his post-modern novel I, Caravaggio, that depicts the artist’s phychological unraveling while evolving his art and arising as a super star.

It’s A Novel Idea. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org. 

 

Mouthful welcomes chef Terrell Bernier of New Orleans and Alan Linsley of Nonesuch school to discuss “Remembering Hurricane Katrina,” a benefit coming up on August 29.

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Suzanne Lang talks with author Terri Lewis on her historical novel set in the early 13^th century in England, when King John abducts and marries  the eleven year old Isabelle d’Angoulême to be his queen. The story, featuring a love triangle,  is based on facts: Behold the Bird in Flight, a Novel of an Abducted Queen.

 

Also featured is Janet Constantino talking about her novel spanning Sicily and San Francisco with lots of good food and wine in between. Becoming Mariella: a Novel is the story of a young person’s quest for fulfillment and independence.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, March 30^th at 10am PT. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. 

 

In a disaster we all have our jobs to do. There are firefighters, doctors,  construction workers and there are journalists. Tess Vigeland, former host of public radio’s “Market Place”, decided what

 

 

 

 

We go above and below, at every depth. Tessa Hill joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on At Every Depth, Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans, the book she wrote with science writer Eric Simons that takes readers from the shore to the ocean depths, from the tropics to polar regions, and introduces us to people who are working hard to save our oceans and the habitats that host so much life.

 

 

 

Also featured is a conversation with Marianna Leuschel and Josie Iselin, co-directors of Above/Below, an ocean literacy campaign that has created a webstory, The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp, online at https://bullkelp.info.

 

It's A Novel Idea with Suzanne M. Lang. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. 

 

 

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Suzanne M. Lang talks with Thais Nye Derich about her path of self-examination and learning to discover that she, like many other women, was a victim of the medical establishment that

Thalea String Quartet
Community Church of Sebastopol
Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Redwood Arts presents the Thalea String Quartet in the Community Church of
Sebastopol on Saturday,

Thalea String Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Thalea String Quartet opens the 5th season of the Brave New Music concert series in Healdsburg, CA.

On November 20th, 1969, American Indian activists traveledto Alcatraz to begin an occupation of the prison island. It lasted 19

The 45th Gravenstein Apple Fair
Ragle Ranch Regional Park
August 11th & 12th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Join us for a weekend of old-fashioned fun under the

The Adams Family: America’s First Dynasty
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Berger Center, Oakmont
Monday, April 9th – Monday, May 14th, 2018

The Adamses are America’s longest and most influential dynasty,

The credits for the Spreckels Theater Company production of The Addams Family, running now through October 28, notes that the musical is “based on characters created by Charles Addams.” It is

Mouthful welcomes Victoria Wise, returning for a second visit, this time to discuss her wonderful book The Armenian Table.

Armenian cuisine is flavorful and robust, with lamb, yogurt, pomegranate,
artichokes, lemon

The Barber of Seville
Cinnabar Theater
June 7^th – 23^rd, 2019

Rossini’s laugh-out-loud romantic comedy has beenentertaining audiences for more than 200 years with its outrageous stage anticsand vocal acrobatics. Donald

Before attempting to explain what Conor McPherson’s The Birds is, running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West, best make it clear what it isn’t. It is not a stage adaptation of

The Birds
Main Stage West
April 7th – 23rd, 2017

The Birds is boldly adapted by Conor McPherson in a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face

The Bob O’Klock Variety Hour
Raven Theater Healdsburg
Friday, May 12th & Saturday, May 13th, 2017 @ 8:00pm

90(ish) entertaining minutes! 14 faaabulous acts! 1 heckava good time!

Join us as

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival
Watts Ranch
August 25th & 26th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival is a wonderful, wild

Hosted by Lauren Spates, episode 2 looks at the impact of more-fierce fire and flood on our immune system, our lungs and our brain. We talk to scientists, doctors and other experts who say it’s misleading to think that you’re safe from the effects of wildfire smoke if you live far away, because smoke knows no boundaries. It’s also misleading to think that once the smoke is gone, you’re safe, because invisible toxic particles are left behind. We ask what exactly happens when we — and our children — inhale wildfire smoke and carbon dioxide, and what can we do to protect ourselves?

The Book Club Play
6^th Street Playhouse
August 23 – September 15, 2019

An endearing comedy about five very different

Perhaps the most mislabeledentertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in thepresence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful

For many families, senior board and care homes are a popularalternative to expensive skilled nursing facilities.

A recent investigation by the Center for InvestigativeReporting found that wage theft is

The Children’s Hour
6th Street Playhouse
April 21st – May 7th, 2017

The Children’s Hour is one of the great successes of the American dramatic canon. After a malicious youngster starts

The Christian Foley-Beining Group
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

OCA presents Friday Night Live! The Christian Foley-Beining Group. Foley-Beining, a native of Germany who

The City of Santa Rosa unveiled a new emergency planningtoolkit during Tuesday’s city council meeting. The star of

The Clean House
Raven Theater Healdsburg
January 27th – February 12th, 2017

Lane and Charles hire a housekeeper named Matilde, an aspiring comedian from Brazil who’s more interested in coming up

Like an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as North Bay theatre companies knock out one outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one seems to pop up.

Marin Shakespeare brought us Pericles

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
6th Street Playhouse
May 18th – June 3rd, 2018

A mighty mash-up of ALL Shakespeare’s works in 97 minutes!

Have you read every single

In what has become an annual tradition, Word By Word host Gil Mansergh is pleased to welcome the book buyers for Copperfield’s Bookstores, Sheryl Cotleur and Michelle Bellah with their challenging task of choosing which books to talk about for gifting—in under an hour.

Read the complete book list.

Since this show aired during pledge week at KRCB-FM, it is a good time to thank you for your tangible financial support. For although Word By Word is archived and made available around the world as podcasts on NPR, Gil Mansergh’s hour-long Conversations With Writers shows are produced locally, in KRCB-FM’s Rohnert Park Studios.  Over the years, your generosity has permitted us to chat about books and writing with Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award winners, McArthur Grant recipients, and local writers whose primary jobs are as electrical engineers, physicists, police dispatchers, farmers, teachers, artists, photographers, and students. We’ve met people who write novels, histories, mysteries, biographies, poems, screenplays, documentary scripts, stage plays, newspaper serials, short stories, and memoirs.

How great is that?

Word by Word Conversations with Writers is hosted by Gil Mansergh and can be heard on the second Sunday of the month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App for your favorite mobile device.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
September 7th – 30th, 2018

Part mystery, part family drama, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

Spreckels Theatre Company opens their season with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel about a boy with ‘behavioral difficulties’ took

Redwood Arts Council presents The Delphi Trio
Occidental Center for the Arts
Saturday, January 20th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

This Piano Trio was just coming on the scene when we invited