Rhody Radio: RI Library Radio Online
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.
Episodes
Have you always wanted to listen to a podcast where library workers chat with authors, community superstars and other neighbors around Rhode Island about their current favorite books, TV and movies, and all the big things they are doing in our little state? Then check out Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere else you find podcasts! Each episode will feature conversat...
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.
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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.
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
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?
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.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/messageRhody 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.
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Power to the People! Emily sits down with Fuerza Labroal, White Electric Coffee, and Nuts and Bolts Nursery to talk about Cooperatives as a business model and its social and economic impact on Rhode Island.
This is the first in an ongoing series on the wide variety of cooperatives in Rhode Island.
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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.
Read: Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Watch: Newsies
Listen: Indigo Girls
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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media ...
Lauren and Dave talk with Carl Byrd and Victor Omoayo from the Codex Prime Podcast. Codex Prime is about all things pop culture, be it films, video games, television, books, and everything else in between.
Carl Byrd is a host of the show as well as the Social Media Chair, he’s a DJ with Fleet DJs, and he’s very involved in the Providence community, including through the Black Nerd Book Club and the Rhode Island Midnight Basketball...
Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we can't stop thinking about, books or otherwise. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online. For today Dave's sharing some books and movies that have made him cry lately.
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This week we’re sharing an excerpt from a recent episode of Down Time with Cranston Public Library in which host Tayla talked with Lucas and Ottavia, co-owners of Riffraff Bookstore + Bar in Providence. They discuss how their taking over the ownership of Riffraff is about keeping what is special about the store going. You’ll also hear our regular segment The Last Chapter, where we discuss a library or bookish related question. This...
Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we can't stop thinking about, books or otherwise. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.
This episode features recommendations for book-to-screen adaptations. Featured in this episode:
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Princess Bride (film)
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed ...
Lauren chats with Jenna Hetzell and Lauren Schoenberger of Seaworthy Coffee Roasters, a local woman-owned and operated small batch coffee roasting company. Tune in to learn about what goes into making a good cup of coffee, which coffee chains the pros prefer, and which romantic comedies are (and are not) worth watching, in our humble opinions.
You can find more information about Seaworthy Coffee Roasters at seaworthycoffeeroasters...
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 “I read that for my book club!” and features:
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
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Please enjoy this bonus outtake from our chat with Chris Revill and Nathan Peavey, where they shared a bit more RI library love and digressed on favorite TV shows. If you didn't already, check out the main show from Tuesday 1/30 when we talked with Chris and Nathan about their journeys in friendship and podcasting.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/messageEmily and Lauren sit down with Chris Revill and Nathan Peavey of Let's Chat! Podcast to talk about their journey to podcasting, dream guests, getting to make something with your friends, and much more. Enjoy!
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/messageRhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we can't stop thinking about, books or otherwise. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online. For today we're emerging from our winter burrow to foretell an early spring (or six more weeks of winter!) with a selection of timeloop stories!
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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.
These are some recommendations that can help you - and motivate you - to live your best life in the New Year.
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Lauren chats with Shaun Colón, a filmmaker, writer, and producer who is currently working on a documentary film titled “Age of Audio” about the history, art form, and technology of podcasting.
Lauren and Shaun talk about the upcoming film and also discuss audiobooks, capitalism, and the similarities between podcasts, libraries, and punk rock.
You can find more information about “Age of Audio” at aoamovie.com or on social media @a...
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