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Tankus.
The latest broadcasts on WNHH radio debate the efficacy of bike helmets and lycra cycling clothes, reminisce about the city’s now-dwindling jazz scene, explore food insecurity and mental health, and describe how to “upcycle” old clothes.
On “Restless Radio,” host Katie Toth welcomes Cameron Roberts, research associate at the University of Manchester, to discuss bike safety, Americans’ compulsion to drive, and whether helmets are as preventative and safe as they’re made out to be. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
Babz Rawls-Ivy and Blue Plate Radio Founder Ed Tankus talk East Coast jazz music — past, present, and future — on “LoveBabz LoveTalk.” In particular, the two discuss how the Hartford Jazz Festival served as Tankus’ entry point into the state’s once-robust jazz scene, the intimate connection between music education and disciplines like math and science, the challenges Tankus faces as a promoter and a jazz enthusiast living in Connecticut, and how he plans to tackle New Haven’s shrinking jazz scene. To listen, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“Kitchen Sync” host Lucy Gellman speaks with Alycia Santilli, deputy director of the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) and Billy Bromage, lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale and director of community organizing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), about the intimate and uncomfortable connection between food insecurity and mental health in some of New Haven’s low-income neighborhoods. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“Law, Life & Culture,” host Betsy Kim speaks to Sherill Baldwin, board chair and founding member of EcoWorks. The volunteer organization, supplies low-cost materials for teachers, artists and other creative people, and hosts workshops where people use second-hand material to make arts and crafts that often have practical uses. The two discuss how the reusing and recycling clothes can make environmental difference and how the second-hand clothing market both negatively and positively affects developing countries. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
On “This Day in New Haven History,” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle take listeners back to a Memorial Day parade in 1905, complete with a patriotic reading of John Greenleaf Whittier’s famous poem “Barbara Fritchie.” To listen, click on or download the audio above.
