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Holiday Stories Return To WRBH Next Week

It's that time of year again and WRBH is celebrating with our annual airing of Holiday Short Stories read by local celebrities. This segment will air Monday through Friday and will air during the Midday Short Story and Poetry programs at 12:30PM. Here's the full schedule for who and what story to expect:  WEEK 1Monday, Dec. 7th:Santa Calls read by John Goodman and The Birds for Christmas read by Wendell PierceTuesday,Dec. 8th:The Littlest […]

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The Girl On The Train

FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF"Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.”—The New York Times“Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but […]

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This Week In Original Programming (12/02 – 12/06): Poet and LSU Director of Creative Writing Laura Mullen and Alan Raphael of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans

What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Host Lyn Koppel sits down with Alan Raphael, Marketing Outreach Manager at the National WWII Museum here in New Orleans. Find out more about him and the museum here.NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Host Amy Sins shows us the best […]

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This Week In Books (11/30 – 12/06)

New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction -  THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt and read by Shawn Hollahan (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!) -  KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR: THE PATH TO A BETTER WAY OF DEATH by Katy Butler and read by Naomi Orlansky (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf (NEW!) - WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler and […]

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Knocking On Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

FEATURED NON-FICTION"In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and self-reliant parents when the call came: a crippling stroke had left her proud seventy-nine-year-old father unable to fasten a belt or complete a sentence. Tragedy […]

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King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually […]

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This Week In Original Programming (11/25 – 11/29): Author Rick Bragg

What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Host Lyn Koppel talks with Ruth Varisco about food safety during the holidays. Find out more about and her organization here.NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Host Amy Sins shows us the best sides of New Orleans food culture, focuses on […]

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Women’s Hoops Renews LSU Rivalry on Monday at 7PM (via TulaneGreenWave.com)

Tonight the Tulane Women’s Basketball team faces off against LSU here in New Orleans. The game starts at 7PM and our broadcast will preempt the following programs this evening:*The replay of WRBH’s Best-Selling Non-Fiction program, VITAMANIA*The Great Literature program, FASTER*Part of the YA Literature program, THE LOUDNESSWe apologize for the inconvenience, but all programs missed will be replayed tomorrow at their regular time. Until then, we hope you’ll enjoy cheering on the […]

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This Week In Books (11/23 – 11/29)

New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction -  THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt and read by Shawn Hollahan (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!) -   VITAMANIA: OUR OBSESSIVE QUEST FOR NUTRITIONAL PERFECTION by Catherine Price and, starting Friday, KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR: THE PATH TO A BETTER WAY OF DEATH by Katy Butler and read by Naomi Orlansky (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf  […]

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