Public affairs, in-depth interviews, special broadcasts, community engagement and more from WPKN - a leading freeform community radio station.
Shows
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WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast
The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunteers, WPKN offers a unique and eclectic mix of live and recorded music, news, public affairs, spoken word, arts & culture and other free-form programming which defy genre. -
Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher
“Digging in the Dirt” is a podcast and radio show featured on WPKN (wpkn.org) with climate change experts and activists, promoting organic and regenerative farming techniques, showing the way to grow healthier food in a way that respects the planet’s health. In addition to nationally known movers and shakers in this niche, Kevin loves to feature food authors, local farmers and gardeners pushing the envelope by encouraging us to take personal responsibility, as consumers and gardeners, toward the environment on our properties and urban lots. These guests give us methods, ideas and recipes for creating a better environment for people, our children, animals, insects and the plant life of our planet’s ecology — one backyard at a time. -
Counterpoint with Scott Harris
Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. This show airs weekly on WPKN (wpkn.org) and streams here in podcast form.
Latest Episodes
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Rock Therapy with Rob Silber: Artist Interviews Podcast
Dennis Diken of The Smithereens
Dennis Diken talks about The Smithereens current tour with Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms as guest lead vocalist, their current system of having rotating lead singers and future plans. -
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Resistance Roundtable
Election post-mortem with John Nichols and Norman Solomon
The Resistance Roundtable interviews Nation Magazine correspondent John Nichols, and Roots Action co-director Norman Solomon about the decisive issues in the Harris/Walz defeat in the 2024 election. They also address strategies for resistance in the coming extreme right wing political landscape. Also: an interview with Chunjang Bruynder, a college student who volunteers with Bridgeport Generation Now, a multi-generational group which promotes civic engatement.Hosted by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner -
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Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher
Peter Byck Director, producer and writer of the Film "Roots so deep you can see the devil down there". Plus, Gloria Frazee of RewildLongIsland.org on their community gardens grant program.
My guest on Digging in is Peter Byck director, producer and writer of a 4 part documentary series called Roots so deep, you can see the devil down there. He’s also currently producing an on-going series of short films called Carbon Cowboys. The film documents a $10 million research project comparing Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing with conventional grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 farm families, focused on soil health & soil carbon storage, microbial/bug/bird biodiversity, water cycling and much more. Its all about the inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a path to solving climate change with hooves, heart and soil. Plus, Gloria Frazee of RewildLongIsland.org on their community gardens grant program. -
Immigrant Advocacy Groups Vow to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Pledge
Interview with Dulce Guzman, executive director of Alianza Americas talks about her groups' recent call for justice and unity, conducted by Scott Harris.Dulce Guzman’s recent call for justice and unity after Donald Trump’s election victory, and nationwide preparations are being made to resist Trump’s campaign pledge to deport 11+ million immigrants living in the U.S. -
Assessing Media’s Failures in Covering the 2024 Election
Interview with Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy and co-director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, conducted by Scott Harris.Victor Pickard assesses corporate media’s coverage of the 2024 election with a focus on the decline of legacy media outlets such as newspapers and cable TV news, the growing strength, reach and influence of right-wing “Bro” social media and podcast sphere, and the lack of funding support to develop a progressive counterpart and alternative.
Hosts
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Kevin Gallagher
Host of Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher