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Today’s radio broadcasts explored old films made new, celebrated New Haven’s youth, suggested new ways to stomp out hunger, and more.
On “Dateline New Haven,” Youth of The Year Z’hane Ellison of the New Haven Boys & Girls Club and club Executive Director Stephanie Barnes speak about a safe haven where hundreds of city kids are spending each afternoon. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s podcast “Dateline New Haven” on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“Deep Focus” host Tom Breen talks with Yale Spanish teacher Margherita Tortora about her new series that brings filmmakers from Latin America to the Elm City for post-screening discussions with students and the general public alike. The series concludes this weekend with a 5‑film tribute to Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, one of the founding fathers of post-revolutionary Cuban cinema. For the second segment of the show, Tom talks with Yale film archivist Brian Meacham and graduate students Andrew Vielkind and Carolyn Jacobs about a night of screenings that focuses on the history and practice of the film archive. To listen, click on or download the audio above or check out WNHH’s “Arts Mix” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
Relationship counselor Tonisha Dawson joins Alisa Bowens for her “Culture Cocktail” to discuss what we seek out in our partners. During the second half of her show, she brings on Arti Dixson, who will be hosting the sixth annual Help Our People hunger outreach event on April 24, 2016, in Branford. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
What was the way of life the American Revolution was helping to preserve? On “This Day In New Haven (Hardware) History,” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle try to find out. The two travel back to possibly the oldest continually operating business in New Haven, ye olde hardware story, which came to be known, by 1915, as the John E. Bassett Store, as farm wagons and ox teams lumber by the first incarnation on Chapel Street. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
