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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.

E-Town, taped before a live audience in Boulder, Colorado, features today’s top folk and Americana artists, along with information and discussions on the environment and conservation. Host Nick Forster nimbly walks the line between musician and radio journalist, playing guitar, mandolin, or lap steel with musical guests and then switching gears to engage artists in conversation. Co-host Helen Forster lends her voice to both the spoken and musical portions of the show.

Live Saturday 10-11am

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E-Town on the web

Live Tracks

LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 759 original programs by March 2026. Join me on my quest to reach show number 777. Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm

Replays Saturday 9-11pm

DJ(s):

Jim Buchanan

Planetary Radio

Each week, Planetary Radio visits with a scientist, engineer, project manager, astronaut, advocate or writer who provides a unique and exciting perspective on the exploration of our solar system and beyond.

Live Wednesday 5-5:30pm

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Planteary Radio on the web

In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm

Replays Tuesday 11am-12pm

DJ(s):

Karen Leyse

Exploration with Michio Kaku

An hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction. Hosted by Michio Kaku.

Live Thursday 11pm-Friday 12am

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Exploration on the web

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The start of the Putah Creek Council with Carrie Shaw, Imagining Yolo Davis, Nov. 3, 2023

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week on Imagining Yolo Davis we welcome Carrie Shaw. She and the other founding members of the Putah Creek Council show us what volunteers can achieve. Whether it's helping one individual, one tree, one pet -- or in this case, reviving a creek -- volunteers make a huge difference.

So listen in as Carrie describes the beginning of the council. We close the show with Creedence Clearwater's 1969 hit song "Green River," which is about Putah Creek.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 11/03/2023

Davis Garden Show, Nov. 2, 2023

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: How plants hibernate, growing watermelons and sweet potatoes, harvest updates (saffron, roselle …), spiders in the garden, and Don gets an unexpected visit from some young foxes during the taping.

IMPLOSION - 1 November 2023

Wed, 11/01/2023 - 12:52pm | Nick Saloman

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Tune in at 5p Pacific for IMPLOSION! Hear a marvelous musical mix, including The Sorrows, The Steppes, The Red Squares, and The Writing on the Wall, presented only as Nick Saloman can, only on KDRT!

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 31, 2023

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Chris Barber, Mundell Lowe, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Lem Winchester & Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave Pike, Eddie Jefferson, Cornell Dupree, Steven Mayer, The Spencer Wyatt BIg Band, and Ahmad Jamal with Yusef Lateef.

The News Cycle asks Davis High students: Is it OK for teenagers to go trick or treating?

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 9:26am | kdrtradio

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Are high schoolers too old to go trick or treating? On this week’s News Cycle, students from Davis High School’s Blue Devil Hub "dive into the spooky season":

• Rowan Reising interviews Spanish teacher Carlos Diaz about Dia de los Muertos, and how he celebrates with his class

• Marion Delarue reports on Halloween traditions

• And Alessandra Trask investigates whether or not high schoolers are too old to trick-or-treat.

Davisville, Oct. 30, 2023: Oobli, part of Davis food-tech evolution, sees sweet future in sweet proteins

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today’s Davisville involves Davis, food, the invention of new food products, and potentially good news for the environment, depending on how this idea develops.

The topic is sweet proteins, a sugar alternative probably new to most of us, and Oobli, a Davis company using these proteins to create sweet teas and chocolates that just went on the market. Our guest is the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Jason Ryder. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in chemical engineering.

Divine Intervention – Oct. 27, 2023

Sat, 10/28/2023 - 4:18pm | Jess Goddésse

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Did you miss last night's edition of Divine Intervention? Never fear! Replay & playlist are up, featuring very much new music plus Vinyl Vespers with Ronnie McDowell and our Goddess of Month for October 2023, Valaida Snow!

Putah Creek Council's Phil Stevens shares its mission, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 27, 2023

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Phil Stevens, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, joins us this week.

The council's mission is to support regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship. Its vision is to protect and restore natural resources in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of the creek’s wildlife and the regional community.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 10/27/2023

'Is It Alive? Tracks' brings out its annual Halloween show

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:51am | kdrtradio

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Dead Tracks.

It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.

Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.

It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.

Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”