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Rhody Radio: RI Library Radio Online Rhody Radio
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Rhody Radio brings you voices from your neighbors around the state. Discover local writers, artists, experts, scholars, musicians, and performers from across the Ocean State, and enjoy lectures, stories, and conversations selected for you by Rhode Island librarians.
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Rhody Recommends: Travel Stories
Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.
Featured in this episode:
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Nomadland (film)
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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media
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Ann Watt, author of WHEN BEING A NURSE WAS FUN
Dave sits down with Ann Watt, author of WHEN BEING A NURSE WAS FUN: TALES FROM MY LIFE AS A NURSE. Filled with true tales from her life both in and out of the hospital, this memoir will cause you to laugh, and may also make you cry. In this conversation Ann shares some stories from the book and offers advice both to those pursuing medical careers and aspiring authors.
Purchase When Being a Nurse Was Fun from Stillwater River Press, West Warwick, RI
Find When Being a Nurse Was Fun at your local Ocean State Library
Author Ann Watt (website)
The theme for this episode is A Child Playing by Diamond_Tunes.
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Rhody Recommends: Always Growing
Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.
This week’s episode theme is Always Growing and features:
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat
Maintenance Phase
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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media
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Reading Across Rhode Island With Teddi Jallow 🇺🇸
This week Tayla is joined by Teddi Jallow, Executive Director & Co-founder of the Refugee Dream Center and Honorary Chair of 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI). They discuss the work being done at Refugee Dream Center to welcome people to the United States, as well as this year’s RARI selection, Solito by Javier Zamora. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is a genre you wish you read more of?
Podcast disclaimer
Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you’d like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening!
Books
Solito by Javier Zamora
One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Our Planet (2019-2023)
Other
Refugee Dream Center
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Birthworkers in RI - A Cooperative Story
Emily chats with Susie Finnerty, a founding member of RI Birthworkers Cooperative about maternal health, Doulas in RI and how the cooperative model has impacted access to better health outcomes for pregnant people.
Learn more about the Doula Reimbursement Act.
Theme music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi from Pixabay.
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Rhody Recommends: Celebrity Memoirs
Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.
Featured in this episode:
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Spare by Prince Harry
Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson
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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media
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Customer Reviews
Credible and Interesting
This podcast is great. The information is well researched, the sources are credible, and the production (music, narration) is perfect.
A literary treat!
So excited for Rhody Radio! So much fun to learn and listen about Rhode Island’s tapestry of arts and culture. Yay Rhode Island Libraries!