Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

This week we are reading, watching, and listening to the ridiculous! All suggestions offer the audience something just a little silly, odd, or well... ridiculous. Remember, all items are available at your local library or freely online! Let us know what you think of our suggestions!

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Lauren Walker, Assistant Director of the Coventry Public Library and self-proclaimed Official Poutine Correspondent for Rhody Radio, sits down with Anne Conway, Director of the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, to discuss their annual Francophonie celebration and the 6th Annual Poutine Indulgence. Then, Lauren indulges and reviews all 7 poutine contestants.

For more information about the Museum of Work and Culture, visit https://www.rihs.org/locations/museum-of-work-culture/

To buy tickets to the 6th Annual Poutine Indulgence or the Salute to Spring, visit https://www.shopmowc.com/

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay.

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For this week's episode of Rhody Radio, we are delighted to share an interview with Dyanna Morrison White, a local author who recently published the play, Justice, which imagines the framers of the Constitution witnessing a modern trial, discussing the ramifications of their Bill of Rights. We are also honored to present an excerpt from the play read by members of the Bristol Shakespeare Readers. We hope you enjoy!

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Special thanks to the Barrington Public Library for hosting our recording session, and for their time and technology assistance.

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Theme music for this episode is Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Paavali Jumppanen

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

Check out something from the segment? Be sure to let us know what you think!

Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

We explore RI Craft Beers and Brewing with Matthew Gray of Ragged Island and the RI Brewers Guild. Learn more and participate in RI Craft Beer Week which begins Saturday, March 5, 2022. Download the RI Brewers Guild App to track your adventures visit all the great breweries in Rhode Island during this special week, and all year long! See you out there.

Please drink responsibly.

Ad music: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

Theme music: Youth by Muzaproduction

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

Check out something from the segment? Be sure to let us know what you think!

Click here to read a transcript of this episode

Join host Aimee Fontaine from Providence Community Library for an author talk with TJ Klune, award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and Under the Whispering Door. For more TJ Klune, visit the PCL YouTube channel to watch the Q&A following his author talk.

Borrow The House in the Cerulean Sea from your library, or visit RI eZone for the ebook or audiobook. 

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

Check out something from the segment? Be sure to let us know what you think! 

Click here to read a transcript of this episode

For this week's episode of Rhody Radio, we're bringing you a presentation by Michael Fine, M.D., who joined the Cranston Public Library on January 11, 2022, to read from his newest book, Rhode Island Stories. This collection of short stories provides marvelous insight into some very unique personalities and situations in our home state. You can purchase Rhode Island Stories at Dr. Fine's website - michaelfinemd.com - or request it from your local Ocean State Library.

Thanks for listening! Please rate and review Rhody Radio wherever you get podcasts, and if you enjoyed this episode we’d be honored if you would share it with a friend. Theme music for this episode is Inner City Smiling by John Bartmann. Rhody Radio is proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book and is brought to you by library staff and community members all around the Ocean State.

Michael Fine, M.D. has been an advocate for communities, healthcare reform, and the care of under-served populations worldwide for 40 years. His career as a community organizer and family physician has led him to some of the poorest places in the United States, as well as dangerous, war-ravaged communities in developing countries. His experiences across the globe have enabled him to craft numerous short stories, novels and healthcare policy books about how we can change the world by empowering, caring for, and educating one another.

“Literature and imagination can build a better world. Imagination can help us see one another and envision what we can do together when we stop fighting and start dreaming,” says Fine. “I don’t think I know anything that other people haven't known for years. I just think of myself as a man who is too stubborn to accept the world as it is, and too pigheaded to accept no for an answer when someone asks if there is a better way."

Lauren Walker, Assistant Director at the Coventry Public Library, sits down with her husband, Nathan Walker, who worked as Key Production Assistant (PA) on the set of Hocus Pocus 2, filmed here in Rhode Island. Nathan talks about the film and what it’s like to work on set.

Music courtesy of Pixabay Music.