Live Wire is a weekly radio variety program that features interviews with writers, musicians, activists, and other interesting folks, plus musical guests and comedy. The show is taped live in Portland once a month in front of a devoted audience, then broadcast around the country, where it airs on 250 public radio stations, reaching 300,000 unique listeners per episode.
Live Wire's host, Luke Burbank, and Executive Producer Laura Hadden, share over thirty years of Public Radio experience between them. In their careers, they've worked with CBS Sunday Morning, The Moth, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and This American Life. Oregon State University Associate Professor Elena Passarello has served as Live Wire's Announcer since 2018, when she appeared as a guest on the program and had so much fun that she refused to leave.
Passarello will join Burbank and Hadden in a candid conversation about the steps toward making a weekly radio program—finding guests, coordinating episodes, remote editing and recording, and following a progressive and inclusive programming mission. They'll also talk about the unique career paths that led them to making this show.
Presented by the Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts | Center for the Humanities and KBVR FM 88.7.
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