Radio Highlights

Prairie Public staff invited to exclusive podcast program

Prairie Public’s Main Street host Ashley Thornberg (7th from left) and digital specialist Christine McClellan (3rd from left) have been selected to attend an intensive training program for journalists hosted by public media organization PRX.

The PRX Journalism Podcast

Accelerator course offers intensive training in content concepts, technical and creative skills grounded in collaboration, and strategies to sustain quality news organization audio production. Thornberg and McClellan are producing a podcast about how progress intersects with identity and life, which will premiere later in 2023. Along with Prairie Public, participants in the program include Kaiser Health News, Kansas News Service and KCUR, KBIA Missouri co-produced with The New Territory magazine and The Columbia Missourian, Minnesota Public Radio, and Mississippi Free Press—and is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Same great radio in a new package

Sundays at 11am on FM-1 and F-3

After more than two decades of devoting 52 programs per year to the life and achievement of Thomas Jefferson, Clay Jenkinson is ready to widen the lens. He has wanted all of his life to head out on the open road, to “light out for the territories before it’s too late,” to explore what John Steinbeck called “this monster country.”

So welcome to Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson, which premieres on Sundays at 11am in June. The public radio program and podcast—which is distributed nationally by Prairie Public—will exhibit more continuity than change. Mr. Jefferson will still make regular appearances to articulate his vision of an agrarian, libertarian republic. So, too, will his regular, esteemed guests. They will explore other periods of American history and wrestle with some of the opportunities and challenges of our times in ways that Mr. Jefferson would not recognize.

Clay writes, “I want to do my small part in urging us to have a conversation of good will in which we try to find consensus on the history, the meaning, and the purpose of America, warts and all, but not without genuine celebration of all of the many many things that are right with America.”

Adding some local Bismarck chill to the schedule

Fridays at 8pm on FM-2

DJ Mariah plays a variety of alternative rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues, indie pop, dance/electronic, and First Nations music for The Vibe Special She welcomes questions, comments, and suggestions for the Bismarck-based show at tomrag21@gmail.com.