WPKN's Mike Horyczun provides a 'Backstage Access' podcast with conversations he's had at music festivals and inside the WPKN studio featuring superstars and soon to be stars on the cutting edge of today's folk, rock, jazz and contemporary acoustic music scene.

Listen to interviews with thought leaders and hear emotional intelligence leader Chuck Wolfe answering calls that teach listeners strategies for managing their own emotions and their emotional relationships with others. Chuck Wolfe is the CEO of Charles J. Wolfe Associates, LLC since 1994, a motivational speaker, leadership coach, consultant, and leading expert in the field of emotional intelligence. His clients include prestigious organizations such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Exxon/Mobil, Marriot, Allianz, Foxwoods, ESPN, US Army, and the Coast Guard. Since 1999 Chuck has been the volunteer host of radio talk show Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel and Control How You Feel on WPKN. He’s a faculty member for the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program.

A weekly aggregation of ecological and climate events occurring around the world.

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” 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.

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.

A monthly podcast that aims to entertain and educate listeners about music and causes that enrich your life - a delicious mix of talking and music we call “Fun-philanthropy” or “Fun-lanthropy” - where the desire to improve the welfare of others is combined with fun and music! My mission is to produce music and content that inspires people to feel safe enough to be generous to nonprofits in our Connecticut community.  Generosity spreads love and growth. Each 55 minute episode features musicians and nonprofit leaders for interactive interviews and live performances.

Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM 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 and culture and other free-form programming which defy genre. WPKN is proud to be listener-supported, commercial-free, community-driven radio available to the public at no cost, any time, day or night.

Interviews from Rob Silber's Rock Therapy show on WPKN. Rock Therapy is a free-form mix of Classic Rock, Punk, Indie Rock, Blues, Reggae, Prog Rock, Americana, and anything else that captures Rob's ear.

A monthly radio hour featuring voices from the WPKN community discussing events and initiatives. Hosted by WPKN General Manager, Valerie Richardson, and Director of Operations & New Initiatives, Brendan Toller.

Jim Motavalli of WPKN features interviews new and archival - artists, movers, shakers, and more.

WPKN's leading public affairs coverage concerning politics, policy, planet and so much more.

Home Page with Duo Dickinson – Whether it is in our homes or on our streets, humans experience what we make. Today we are all compelled to listen to our health in a time of threatened well-being – but what impacts us every day, impacting how we feel in the world we make for ourselves?

The Organic Farm Stand with co-hosts: Richard Hill, Diane Lauricella & friends, presents news & views for and from the organic community; including farming and gardening advice, listener call-ins and interviews with organic and food systems experts and activists.

Economist Michael Zweig discusses recent developments on the labor front and delves into the history of the struggles of working people for union representation and economic justice. The Monthly Labor Report airs the first Tuesday of each month on WPKN and is hosted by Richard Hill.

WPKN’s ½-hour weekly public affairs and community discussion program. Our diverse roster of hosts presents a wide range of topics for discussion: focusing on global, national, and regional issues and their effect on the local Connecticut community. Just as the phrase “Mic Check” was used to mobilize people to create a human microphone during the Occupy Movement, this weekly program will amplify our local community’s many concerns and voices and bring them to the air-waves.

The Resistance Roundtable with host Richard Hill and panelists Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner, & Guest/s. Following the 2017 Presidential Election, The Resistance Round Table, in the Armageddon Report, looks at issues raised by Donald Trump’s Presidency. Particularly on issues of concern to the WPKN Community— issues that receive little, or no, mainstream media coverage.

Cosmic Perspective Radio features live and prerecorded interviews with Astronomers, Scientists, Astronauts, and Historians… NASA & JPL updates on Manned & Unmanned Space Missions… Monthly Night Sky Reports… Local Astronomy & Space Related Events…

The Cultural Alliance’s monthly SPOTLIGHT ON ARTS & CULTURE live on-air interview program is broadcast monthly at noon on the 2nd Monday of each month on community radio station WPKN 89.5FM, based in Bridgeport. Broadcasts are also available as podcasts on all platforms.

WPKN’s daily local newscast covers Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, airing weekdays at 6:35pm EST, and available in this podcast subscription format. The expanded WPKN newscast will focus on state legislative sessions and local politics, immigration rights, climate and environmental concerns, economic inequality, poverty, and cost of living issues, and reproductive rights. Broadcasts will include diverse voices from the respective communities and direct reporting from the field. WPKN’s expanded local news coverage is in part a response to the greater geopolitical significance of world events on the lives of our community at the local, state and national levels. In times of rising media consolidation and local news deserts, the WPKN daily newscast aims to provide a platform for critical stories that may otherwise go unreported.

WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry. WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences for 60+ years, cited by The New Yorker as "the greatest radio station in the world," (David Owen, 2021).

The Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast is a deep-dive interview series with musicians, artists, conduits, collectors, and dedicated fans focusing on 20th century Connecticut music history across all genres. This project preserves narratives, heralds unsung movers and shakers, and defines Connecticut’s influential role in cultural history.

I have been looking over my archives and found some great interviews for you to enjoy. Kevin

Interviews with climate and environmental newsmakers, recordings of important forums, rallies and conversations all about the earth and our place in it.

Design is just one way humanity manifests itself. Our buildings simply express where our culture is. Architects often talk to other architects about architecture, in this time of explosive change, our evolving values are revealed when we understand design. Using the generous grant from The Connecticut Architecture Foundation, WPKN Radio and The Common Edge Collaborative launched the production and recording of the podcast “Our Buildings, Our Selves.” Co-Hosted by architect Duo Dickinson FAIA and Common Edge Founder and Editor Martin Pedersen.

Kevin and his guests dig a little deeper into subjects and issues around growing food, gardening, farming, soil health and the climate crisis facing planet earth.

Digging deep into stories of food, radical love and creative social justice. Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 community radio Bridgeport, CT. Hosted by chef, activist, organizer Tagan Engel