Charlie’s Music Shop is an old-time radio program hosted by Charlie McMullen and featuring popular music and American standards from the 1940s and 50s. Other Episodes April 20, 2024 Charlie's Music Shop Charlie's Music Shop is an old-time radio program hosted by Charlie McMullen and featuring popular music and American standards... Read More

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Don Wooten and a cavalcade of guests kill an hour in a very unceremonious way. Other Episodes April 20, 2024 Saturday Morning Live! Carrying on one of the most venerable traditions in local broadcasting history, Kai Swanson carries on the carrying on Don Wooten carried on with a cavalcade of carriers on. Carry on. ... Read More

Other Episodes April 20, 2024 Roll out the rain barrels… Listen · 4:00 ... Read More

Other Episodes April 25, 2024 The Rising Costs and Policy Changes: Why Arrowhead Ranch Had to Close In this episode, we delve into the closure of Arrowhead Ranch, a long-standing residential facility for troubled youth in Illinois. Dr. Luis Moreno, the executive director, provides a comprehensive... ... Read More

Robert Blizzard, a partner with Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, shares results from focus groups involving suburban voters similar to those in Scott and Rock Island Counties that could lead to problems for Democrats in the midterm elections. Other Episodes April 25, 2024 American Democracy on the Brink? It’s Happened Before ... Read More

After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, our annual summer theater preview returns. Herb Trix’s guest is Mike Schulz, editor and writer for the River Cities Reader. You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. Other Episodes December 30, 2022 Ballot Counting Problems in Scott County On... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. They called it the miracle bridge as it slowly arched across the St. Louis waterfront toward Illinois from 1867 to 1874—a web of steel girders and trusses looking much like the largest erector set a boy could ever imagine. A miracle because of its size—a 520-foot central span—and because the massive granite piers supporting the arches had to go down seventy feet through quicksand to a safe foundation. Other Episodes ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. In Walden , Henry David Thoreau asked his readers who would know knives better, a boy who went to Harvard and took all the best courses on metallurgy, or a boy whose father had him dig, smelt and refine iron ore, and then forge, temper, and sharpen a knife himself. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Most springs along the Upper Mississippi Valley, the river awakens from hibernation like a snake, stretching gently to shed its skin of ice. But now and then, as we all do, the Mississippi gets up on the wrong side of the bed. You don’t want to be around when that happens. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More