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ABOUT US

KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

The Shortwave Report

The Shortwave Report is a weekly review of global news stories recorded via shortwave radio.

Live Tuesday 5-5:30pm

Homepage URL:

The Shortwave Report on the web

Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 17 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, including first place in radio/podcast public affairs programs for 2025, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024, and first place nationwide in news/public affairs programs among small stations from the Public Media Journalists Association in 2026.

Live Monday 5:30-6pm

Replays Saturday 8:30-9am

DJ(s):

Bill Buchanan

Big Picture Science

Through smart, intellectual, and engaging storytelling, Big Picture Science discusses today’s biggest scientific stories and breakthroughs by interviewing leading researchers and scientists. The program delivers the information in unorthodox yet clever ways, proving that science radio doesn’t have to be dry, even if the humor is.

Live Monday 12-1pm

Homepage URL:

Big Picture Science on the web

The Wild Fox Party

Tune in for a wide variety of roots music — including doo-wop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, Latin, African, and hillbilly/country bluegrass — from the early 1920s to contemporary times. The Wild Fox Party focuses on vocal groups , small-group ensembles, and outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists who never or hardly ever get heard. The music provides a forum for learning about history and diverse cultures, and it does so through the exposure of music as art, highlighting points in time that will last forever via the medium of audio recordings.

Live Tuesday 10-11am

Replays Tuesday 10-11pm

DJ(s):

Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Doo Wop Dave

Homepage URL:

DrDoowop

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm

Homepage URL:

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

More programs ...

Jazz After Dark February 15 2022

Tue, 02/15/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Soul jazz tonight: Billy Taylor, Wes Montgomery, Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton, Lou Donaldson & Grant Green, 'Baby Face' Willette, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Dianne Reeves, Jelly Roll Johnson, and Dave Weckl.

Davis Garden Show, Feb. 10, 2022

Thu, 02/10/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's subjects include:

Warm weather and winter vegetables
Tips for tomato success
Early season issues

and more.

The Folk Brothers for Feb. 9, 2022: Celebrating Black History Month ...

Wed, 02/09/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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... with Guy Davis (pictured here) singing about Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee's last train ride; with Mary Knight and Mary Lou Williams' tributes to Martin Luther King; with Corey Harris, Odetta, and more.

And tune in to find out about Lauren MacColl and Rachel Newton's new project Heal & Harrow , which honors the some 2,500 Scottish women executed under the 1563 Witchcraft Act. Also, what's the connection between the Miramichi River and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?

The Folk Brothers playlist for 02/09/2022

Jazz After Dark February 08 2022

Tue, 02/08/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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It’s Duke Ellington tonight on Jazz After Dark, focusing on the later part of his career. We’ll hear his work with Billy Strayhorn, Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Hodges, Charles Mingus and Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Brown, as well as some of his studio recordings from the early 1960s.

Davisville, Feb. 7, 2022: Anne Hance, who helped start Explorit

Mon, 02/07/2022 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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This interview with the late Anne Hance, who died in August 2019, first aired on Nov. 27, 2017.

Anne Hance lived an interesting life. A zoologist by training, she grew up in England during World War II, came to Davis in 1968, co-founded and helped lead the Explorit Science Center for a third of a century … and those details are just part of her story. She also had the most wonderful voice. We talk with her on today’s program.

American protest songs, on Listening Lyrics, Feb. 4, 2022

Fri, 02/04/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Today's show plays a selection of protest songs based on an article from the online magazine Paste.

Davis Garden Show, Feb. 3, 2022

Thu, 02/03/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program:

Cold weather
Citrus problems
True dwarf citrus
Design principles

and more!

The Folk Brothers for Feb. 2, 2022: Remembering Norma Waterson (1939-2012)

Wed, 02/02/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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The Watersons -- Norma, her sister Lal, brother Mike, cousin John Harrison, and (later) Norma's husband Martin Carthy -- defined the English trad-folk revival of the 1960s. In the '90s, Norma Martin and their daughter Eliza Carthy, morphed into Waterson:Carthy. Even in ill health, Norma was recording until a few years ago. Her contributions to -- and influence on -- English folk music cannot be overstated.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 02/02/2022

Jazz After Dark February 01 2022

Tue, 02/01/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson on vocals, Benny Carter, Arnett Cobb , Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Stitt, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Don Ellis, Zoot Sims with Bob Brookmeyer, Claude Bolling Big Band, and Benny Carter and the American Jazz Orchestra.