Radio Free School

By Randy Kay

A 30-minute show by, for, and about home-learners... more

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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.

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February 06, 2024 Making Trails: Ian Reid and the Spencer Creek Trail (Dundas ON)
Making Trails
Series: RADIO FREE SCHOOL
Featured Speakers/Commentators: Ian Reid
Summary: Weekly half-hour radio by, for, and about un-schoolers
Credits: interview - Ian Reid - Spencer Creek Trail (Dundas ON)
ambient - kids on the Spencer Creek trail
music - Everyone, Van Morrison, Moondance
tech - Beatrice Ekoko, Randy Kay

Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever theres trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you cant make a move without a form.

RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners.
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ARCHIVAL INFO (no longer current) BELOW
Every Wednesday at 12 noon to 12:30 pm (EST) on CFMU 93.3 FM - Listen live on the web at http://cfmu.mcmaster.ca;
also on:
Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
Fredericton, New Brunswick on CHSR 97.9 FM www.unb.ca/chsr/home.html
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph Ontario, Canada. www.cfru.ca/
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
and searchable for download at www.radio4all.net
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31min
October 06, 2021 30 Second Promo for Radio Free School
Promo for Radio Free School on CFMU 93.3 FM
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1min
October 06, 2021 Feminist homeschooling with Nina Packebush
Feminist homeschooling with Nina Packebush (of TheEdgycatin' Mama Zine)

interview - Nina Packebush (writer) - Kay children
edits - Beatrice Ekoko

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and then let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker.

RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home
Learners.

First aired on CFMU 93.3 FM
MP3 shows searchable for download at www.radio4all.net

also aired on:

Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
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32min
October 06, 2021 Author Gordon Korman interview
interview - Gordon Korman (author) - interview by Evelyna Kay, Beatrice Ekoko http://gordonkorman.com/
music - Tom Waits, Straight To The Top (Rhumba); Innocent When You Dream (78), Franks Wild Years.
edits - Beatrice Ekoko

"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!"
Ms Frizzle (the magic schoolbus)

RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners.

MP3 shows searchable for download at www.radio4all.net

also aired on:

Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California www.freakradio.org/
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 FM Olympia, Washington www.frolympia.org
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org
Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina main.nc.us/iww/fra/
CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio ears.unbc.ca
Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
...more
31min
October 06, 2021 cartoonin'
cartoonin'

interviews - Gord Pullar, Madeleine Kay, Roy Carless*, Joe Ollman*, Jack Lefcourt* (* from "Tooning In: Political Cartooning in Hamilton and Beyond"), Evelyna Kay on Calvin and Hobbes.

"The Crazy Show" - by Madeleine and Bronwyn

music - "Bubblegum," Sonic Youth, EVOL

trip - mountsberg wildlife centre - http://www.conservationhalton.on.ca/ recounted by Madeleine and Bronwyn

editing - Beatrice Ekoko, Madeleine and Randy Kay

"what, me worry?"
Alfred E. Neuman
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31min
October 06, 2021 RED HILL VALLEY: Lessons from Red Hill
rfs - lessons from Red Hill Valley (First aired Wednesday, November 5 on 93.3 CFMU FM, Hamilton, Ontario)
voices -

Brigette.
Officer Dave Place and Dave Kaoble (chained to a tree).
Susan Byron.
Reverend Canon Patrick Doran (St. Paul's Anglican Church) speaking to reporters before being arrested in the valley, November 4, 2003.
Evelyna on the day's events at Red Hill.
Madeleine (6) and Bronwyn (5) on an afternoon at the Longhouse on their birthdays.
Reverend Patrick Doran after being un-arrested by police after police vehicles were surrounded by peaceful crowd singing "Amazing Grace."
Engineering Professors Brian Baetz and Bob Korol on a new alternative to building an expressway down Red Hill Valley.

music -
"He's a keeper of the fire" Buffy Sainte-Marie, Best Of Buffy Sainte-Marie.
"All the trees will clap their hands" (?) sung at Red Hill Valley.
"Invention no. 3: Swirling Leaves" by Gordon A. McKinnon, performed by Evelyna (seven-years-old)
Drumming in the Longhouse by Gathering Thunder Drum (St. Catherines, ON)
"Stomp Dance" Robbie Robertson, Contact from the Underworld of Redboy

tech -
Randy Kay, Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
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31min
October 06, 2021 RED HILL VALLEY: RESISTANCE
RESISTANCE AT RED HILL VALLEY - How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
Radio Free School - Originally aired on CFMU 93.3 FM in Hamilton Ontario, Wednesday, August 20, 2003
music - Legal/Illegal, Ewan MacColl, Best of Broadside
interviews - kids aged 8 to 11-years at Greenhill Avenue supporting efforts to prevent the Red Hill Creek Expressway from ruining their play area/lungs/quality of life, etc.
music - parkette, Bob Snider, Caterwaul & Doggerel
interview - Heather Wilson & children at the Greenhill Community Garden of Hope, and Heather at Dufferin Construction Headquarters "cementing our memories"
music - The World Turned Upside Down, Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
interview - Don McLean (Friends of Red Hill Valley) and Larry DiIanni (city councillor and chair Expressway Implementation Committee) about the threat of civil suits levelled at protesters by the city...and anarchy.
music - Out of nothing comes nothing, Randy, You Can't Keep a Good Band Down
interview - The need to act, Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
music - We shall not be moved, SNCC Freedom Singers led by Rutha Harris, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966.
interview - Joe Staruck, neighbour whose property backs onto the proposed construction site for the Expressway on-ramp at Greenhill
music - Know your rights, the Clash, Combat Rock
interview - Brian Tammi, picket at Albright Road on the first day of blockades.
music - Which side are you on? Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
interview - Ken Stone, on the megaphone (that rhymes!)
music - Will the circle be unbroken, Jimmy Collier and the Movement SIngers led by Diane Smith Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966.
tech - randy
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32min
October 06, 2021 RED HILL VALLEY: report from red hill valley "Camp the Ramp" pro-valley protest camp, July 4-6, 2003
RFS report from red hill valley "Camp the Ramp" pro-valley protest camp, July 4-6, 2003.
interviews
mish-mash of sounds including a guided hike in the valley (Don McLean and others), music at the Amp the Camp music festival on Saturday, featuring Rex Barger (singing), Steve Fuller (fiddle) and Tim McCarroll-Butler (singing and guitar) - [Thanks to Teal for filling in with guitar and vocals!]
speech by Hamilton Mayoral candidate David Christopherson.
Interviews with campers and camp visitors about the proposed Red Hill Creek Expressway and efforts to block construction.
tech - sound recordings by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko, Madeleine and Randy Kay, the MMR crew, edits by Randy.
RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Home Learners
"How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?"
Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond.
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32min
April 26, 2021Poo Poo Show
This week the kids want to learn about Poop. So we dive right in...
Interviews:
Ian Kerr-Wilson, curator Museum of Steam and Technology guides us through "Sitting Pretty: the history of the toilet"

Rodrigo Venturelli, Plan B Organic Farm talks about the closed-loop of poop
Music:
"A piece of pie," The Frantics, Boot To the Head.

"The Faucets are dripping," Malvina Reynolds, The Best of Broadside.

"25th Floor," Patti Smith, Easter.
Poetry:
"The Gardener" Shel Silverstein, Falling Up.
Tech:
Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko

Randy Kay
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32min
January 30, 2021 Mike Borrelli on CityCAST podcast
A short clip from a larger conversation on the role of Neighbourhood Associations as advocates in the city.
To hear the full discussion, check-in at https://anchor.fm/citycast/episodes/3--Interview-with-Michael-Borrelli-from-the-Beasley-Neighbourhood-Association-elubc4/a-a3nu52j
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1min

FAQs about Radio Free School:

How many episodes does Radio Free School have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.