Spectrum
284 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsSpectrum features conversations with an eclectic group of fascinating people, some are famous and some are not, but they all have captivating stories.
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Old-Time Radio Dramas Adopt Modern Podcasting Style at WOUB
December 28, 2016 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBKaren M. Chan, an actor, director and producer is merging old-time radio dramatic techniques with modern podcasting to bring a new, fresh approach to storytelling for public media. Chan, a veteran of theater, television and film, has lately been concentrating her efforts on dramatizing works of literature for digital distribution by WOUB Public Media. She uses unabridged works of literature and brings them to life using actors from Ohio University and the surrounding communities. She marr...
Addiction and “The Holidays” Can be a Toxic Mix – But, Help is Available
December 21, 2016 08:00 - 48 minutes - 66 MBRon Luce, a board member of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and President of Ohio Recovery Housing, says “the Holidays” can be a troubling time for those addicted to drugs or alcohol –even those already in recovery. Addiction is often linked with depression, according to Luce, and “the Holidays” can exacerbate emotions in the addict of isolation, shame and feelings associated with causing nothing but problems for family and friends. Those negative feelings can even happen whe...
Sexual Victimization: New Data Challenges Stereotypes
December 14, 2016 08:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBLara Stemple and her colleagues are leading the charge to change perceptions of sexual victimization and more accurately account for the gender of sexual perpetrators. Stemple is the director of Graduate Studies at the UCLA School of Law and is the director of the Health and Human Rights Law Project. Two recent studies have blazed the way. The first was published in April of 2014. It was co-written by Stemple and Ilan Meyer. “The Sexual Victimization of Men in American: New Data Challenge...
“Epic Struggles” Face Media in Covering President Donald Trump
December 07, 2016 08:00 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBAndrew Alexander, former ombudsman for the Washington Post and former Washington bureau chief for Cox Newspapers, states that the media have epic struggles ahead in covering our new President Donald Trump. However, he believes media should attack their jobs “fearlessly” and traverse this uncharted media landscape with impartiality and gusto. Alexander notes that there has always been an adversarial relationship between the President and the media covering him. But, this time there are not...
Poverty Takes on Power: Linda Tirado’s Fight for Right
November 30, 2016 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBLinda Tirado, author and activist, has for the past three years written and spoken around the globe about what it’s like to be poor in America. She now talks truth to power and explains why many poor people voted for Donald Trump to tear down the Washington “Establishments” of both parties. Linda started her journey from the depths of poverty three years ago in October 2013. It began with an angry response to a poster on Gawker.com. The posting turned into an online essay “Why I Make Terr...
Uber-Like Service for Rural America Being Launched by Valerie Lefler
November 23, 2016 08:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBValerie Lefler is a young entrepreneur and innovator. Nationally, she is launching an “Uber-like” service for rural American that works together with existing transportation services and supplements options for rural residents. Lefler is the Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Mobility Now, Inc. – currently headquartered in Nebraska. The demand for her services has exploded over the past year. She currently is crisscrossing the country. She recently visited Ohio to assess the viability of ...
Aftermath and Reaction: Election Analysis from Two Targeted Groups
November 16, 2016 08:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBThe rhetoric being espoused by candidate Donald Trump and some of his surrogates during the campaign caused fear and trepidation within several groups of people in America: such as immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQ community and African-Americans. Now that Trump has won the election and has become President-Elect Trump how do some of these groups feel about his ability to lead? Will their group be targeted for Presidential scrutiny or for negative actions to be taken by Presidential appointee...
Women Slowly Crack Innovation Glass Ceiling
November 09, 2016 08:00 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBMany more men than women are likely to become innovators or entrepreneurs. Why is that? Some experts say that there are fewer women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics programs in colleges – commonly called STEM programs. And, there are fewer women in STEM professions overall. Therefore, there are fewer innovators in high tech industries. Other experts argue that venture capital groups and other investors looking for startup companies are dominated by men and therefore, wo...
Social Media Dominates Presidential Races
November 02, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBThe Presidential campaigns of 2016 have been dominated by the use of social media to convey messages and to lambast opponents. Social media usage has not only increased but in this campaign, more and different audiences are being targeted. In 2012, social media primarily was aimed at Millennials. However, in 2016, social media, generated by candidates, is being directed to all supporters, opponents, and the media alike. Three noted experts on campaigns and social media gathered this week...
“DISPEL THE CURSE” – A History of Superstition and Legend in Baseball
October 26, 2016 12:05 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBSome are calling the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians the “Apocalypse World Series.” Both teams are not used to being the post season spotlight and most assuredly they are unfamiliar with winning the World Series…WHY? – Well, both teams supposedly have been under curses for over 50 years. Brian Corbin, the real-time correspondent at Wrigley Field for mlb.com, explains Chicago’s malady. The Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 and they hav...
Trump Bashes GOP Leaders to Consolidate His Base and Feed on Voter Anger
October 19, 2016 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBVeteran political observer and world renowned economist Dr. Richard Vedder analyzes Donald J. Trump’s unprecedented attacks on Republican high-ranking officials during a campaign and the intraparty fights led by the GOP’s presidential candidate. Vedder, a long-time Republican and fiscal conservative, said this type of intraparty chaos is unprecedented. “It is unique,” Vedder says. The only election close to this was when former President Theodore Roosevelt bolted from the GOP in 1912 to f...
Thousands of Blacks Die Annually Due To Health Care Disparities and Biases
October 12, 2016 07:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBA new book claims that nearly 84,000 black and brown lives are lost each year in the United States due to health care disparities and unconscious racial and ethnic bias in the health care professions. Dayna Bowen Matthew just released a new book Just Medicine – A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care published by the New York University Press. She claims that African Americans and Latinos suffer from unconscious racial and ethnic biases by physicians, institutional providers a...
“Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Boy” Answers Critical Questions
October 05, 2016 07:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBIn an era when young men often feel “entitled” in sexual matters and sexual assaults on college campuses are rising, Dr. Andrew Smiler tries in his new book, Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Boy, to aim straight talk to young teenage boys. He tries to establish personal responsibility early in a boy’s development. He felt that no one was talking directly to teen boys about relationships, sex in a technological age and what puberty and adolescence means in the 21st century. “The...
A Race Like No Other: Turbulent 2016 Presidential Campaign
September 28, 2016 07:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBAs the presidential polls tighten and September nears an end, SPECTRUM gets a political update from a non-partisan expert on American politics and elections. Kyle Kondik, author of a new book – The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President (published by the Ohio University Press) -- speaks about what each candidate needs to do to win in the last month of the campaign. Kondik noted the unique nature of this race. Donald Trump needs to win traditionally Republican states but also needs to wi...
Life of Civil Rights Leader Revealed by Historian and Documentarian
September 21, 2016 07:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBDr. Amina Hassan, an independent historian and award-winning public radio documentarian, recently authored a new book Loren Miller—Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Loren Miller was an attorney who also practiced journalism and owned his own newspaper, the California Eagle, one of the longest running African American newspapers in the west. He also was deeply involved with the L.A. Sentinel. As a journalist, Miller was an outspoken advocat...
Why are Black Women NOT Elected to Statewide Offices Throughout the Nation?
September 14, 2016 07:00 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBThere are only two black women in the nation who hold statewide elective executive offices, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Spectrum wants to know why. Although there are numerous women of color elected to state and federal legislative offices, the numbers don’t translate to statewide executive offices, according to Dr. Kira Sanbonmatsu, senior scholar at the Center for American for American Women in Politics. She points to several reasons fo...
Sex and Power: What’s Behind the Headlines?
September 07, 2016 07:00 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBWhy do powerful and famous men sexually act-out, often repeatedly, in ways that most people find inappropriate and that are risky to their careers and families? Why do they risk it all? We see headlines and inevitably ask those questions. SPECTRUM spoke with two experts to try to find the reasons. Dr. Steven Gold is a psychology professor at Nova Southern University and is the founder of the highly regarded Trauma Resolution and Integration Program. Christopher Anderson is the Executive...
#010 Salvador Dali Expert, Paul Chimera
August 31, 2016 07:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBPaul Chimera, a 1971 Ohio University journalism graduate, is a writer, teacher, journalist and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. In March, Chimera’s latest book about Dali was published – Dali and His Doctor: The Surreal Friendship Between Salvador Dali and Dr. Edmund Klein. Chimera became interested in this friendship after the widow of Dr. Klein contacted Chimera and told him of a special relationship between Dali and Dr. Klein. Dr. Klein was a ski...
Pauline Frederick: Broadcast Pioneer Focus of New Book
August 24, 2016 07:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBPauline Frederick was a broadcasting pioneer. She was the first woman to be heard as a reporter for network radio in the late 1940’s as she covered the Nuremburg trials of Nazi war criminals. She was the first woman reporter to appear on network television covering the 1952 political conventions and her career in broadcasting spanned over three decades. She covered the founding of the United Nations, Fidel Castro’s first trip to the United States, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis among other...
Christopher Anderson, Executive Director of "MaleSurvivor"
August 17, 2016 07:00 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBChristopher Anderson is the executive director of a national organization called MaleSurvior – an organization dedicated to assisting and advocating for men who have suffered some form of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse of males is a major issue and it often is under-reported, according to Anderson He notes that, at least, one out of every six American males are sexually abused before they reach the age of 18. Some statistics have the number even higher. Often males do not come forward and di...
#008 Sonja Williams, Award-winning Radio Storyteller
August 10, 2016 07:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBSonja Williams has always loved music and that led her to award-winning public radio shows. She now is a professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Howard University and just penned her first book. She has amassed an amazing body of work in broadcast and print since receiving her master’s degree in Communication from at Ohio University. During her career Williams has received three prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards for Significant and Meritorious Achievement for ...
Two Experts on Iran Discuss Nuclear Agreement After One Year
August 03, 2016 07:00 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBDr. Haleh Esfandiari, founding Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Dr. Rober S. Litwak, Vice President for Scholars and Director of International Security Studies at the Wilson Center give their assessments of the multi-national nuclear agreement with Iran -- on its one-year anniversary. The agreement, according to Litwak, is meeting its intended purpose of keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But, the agreement has not a...
Ohio Will Predict Presidential Winner
July 27, 2016 07:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBThe winning presidential candidate has won Ohio in 28 of the past 30 elections – stretching back to 1896, according to Kyle Kondik, the author of a new book The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President. Ohio is not only a “swing state” but better than all other states in predicting the final outcome of presidential elections. In short, how Ohio votes overwhelmingly tells you how the nation has voted. Ohio has a better record than any other state, according to Kondik. His new book, publish...
Confronting Fear, Hate, and Racism in America
July 21, 2016 13:57 - 1 hour - 99 MBA black woman who is a mother of a teenage son, a former prosecutor and a current judge, a Muslim immigrant, and a gay man of Nepalese heritage each have their own daily struggles confronting escalating fear, hate and racism in American. All three tell their extremely personal stories to Spectrum. All three people have different perspectives but all have similar and sometimes shocking stories of being targeted. Judge Gayle Williams-Byers of S. Euclid, Ohio speaks from three different persp...
Ira Flatow, Host of NPR's "Science Friday"
July 20, 2016 07:00 - 17 minutes - 23.3 MBOn this episode of "Spectrum", Tom Hodson talks with Ira Flatow, the host and executive editor of Science Friday on NPR. Flatow’s career dates back to 1969 and he has spent over four decades as an award winning television and radio host of science oriented programming. He also is an author of several books. Recently, he talked with us about science and making it understandable to the average citizen. He said that people love science but concepts need to be made real for people to integra...
Wesley Lowery, Journalist for the Washington Post
July 15, 2016 19:19 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBWesley Lowery covers Black Lives Matter, law enforcement and justice for the Washington Post. He has become a national expert on police shootings. The Washington Post, for the first time in history, is keeping statistics on police shootings in the U.S. As of today, 522 citizens have been shot and killed by police in 2016. Of that group, 128 people were blacks, according to Lowery. That is about one shooting death per day of a black person by police, Lowery says. “Blacks make up betwee...
#007 Sean Peoples, Documentary Filmmaker
July 13, 2016 07:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBSean Peoples is an award-winning international film producer who documents strong and compelling personal stories and weaves them with major global issues and policy questions. It is a unique form of storytelling. Until recently, Peoples was a multimedia producer/program associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he spent 9.5 years. He is now a producer at Think Out Loud Productions. Peoples has been heralded by The New York Times as one of a “new generation of...
#006 Gwen Ifill of PBS NewsHour
July 06, 2016 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBOn this episode of Spectrum, we’re talking with Gwen Ifill, Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week on PBS and co-anchor and co-managing editor for PBS NewsHour. She also is an author. She talks about her career, race and politics. Before coming to PBS, Ifill worked at a number of stellar news outlets, including the Boston Herald American, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC News. Ifill also became a best-selling author in 2009 with the publication of her book, The ...
Martin Walker, ex-Guardian Journalist talks "Brexit"
July 01, 2016 13:40 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBMartin Walker, a noted journalist and author, says that nothing is going to move quickly in the United Kingdom after the recent Brexit vote to leave the European Union. He does not think that any official action will take place until at least September when a new Prime Minister is sworn into office. Walker also reminded Americans that the British popular vote is “not necessarily binding.” Parliament will actually have to vote to withdraw from the EU following the referendum. He says many a...
#005 Nehemia Gordon
June 29, 2016 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBA Jewish Bible scholar and an African American pastor joined in an intellectual and spiritual journey of faith and scholarly inquiry. The result is they say they uncovered the truth about one of the most coveted prayers in the Christian world – the “Lord’s Prayer” and its Hebrew origins. On this episode of Spectrum, Tom Hodson talks with world renowned Jewish scholar, Nehemiah Gordon, about his discovery of a Hebrew version of the Lord's Prayer. On a journey to Israel in 2002, Methodist P...
#004 Paula Poundstone
June 22, 2016 16:23 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBComic Paula Poundstone, a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” spent 30 minutes with Tom Hodson stating her opinions on multiple topics from computers, to writing, to her style of comedy, to unusual dog breeds. Besides being a Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me regular, Poundstone had a role in last year’s Pixar movie “Inside Out.” She also is currently writing her second book to be published by Algonquin next January. While doing all that, she still travels the country doing her u...
#003 Ira Glass
May 31, 2016 20:20 - 30 minutes - 44.7 MBIra Glass, the award-winning creator and host of This American Life, will be in Athens at 7:30 p.m. March 12th at Templeton Blackburn Memorial Auditorium to present “An Evening with Ira Glass: Reinventing Radio.” Recently, he chatted with WOUB’s Tom Hodson about creating radio content, audio storytelling and the mechanics of putting together a weekly national radio program. He talked about the early days of This American Life, being highly selective about stories they choose to air, and th...
#002 Man Behind the Music: Ken Ehrlich, Producer of the Grammy Awards
May 31, 2016 20:18 - 25 minutes - 37.9 MBKen Ehrlich is a master of music media and his brilliant 50 year career was honored recently by the Scripps College of Communication with this year’s Hall of Fame Award. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in Journalism. He met his wife while a student at Ohio University while he was playing cocktail piano at a local tavern on Court Street called the Lantern. After working in Chicago during his early career, he started producing the national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) music series SO...
#001 Susan Reimer: Journalistic Pioneer Recounts Her Career
April 30, 2016 20:06 - 26 minutes - 39.4 MBSusan Reimer, a 1973 alumna of the Ohio University School of Journalism, had a career full of variety and a career that paved new paths until her retirement in June 2015 after 36 years with the Baltimore Sun. She spent her career writing local news, sports, a twice-a-week column about being a mother and family life, a nationally syndicated column about politics and national affairs, a book, and feature articles about food and gardening. Reimer is back on the Ohio University campus to recei...