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, educator Tagan Engel

Second Saturday Magazine; Vibes and Verses Podcast with co-host singer-song writer Julie Derrick.

On North Fork Works, Hazel Kahan interviews her neighbors on the north fork of the East End of New York’s Long Island. Listen to their conversations about the local environment, overdevelopment and civic activism, all focused on saving what’s left.

With her monthly Tidings Hazel Kahan brings us interviews with people all over the United States and the world about their groundbreaking ideas, brave new projects and insightful reflections.

A radio show and podcast that discusses power and politics in Bridgeport, CT through an anti-corruption, anti-racist, and pro-democracy lens. Airs the 2nd Saturday of every month at 9:00am on WPKN 89.5FM community radio. Hosted by Bridgeport Generation Now Votes’s Co-Directors Gemeem Davis and Callie Heilmann.

Broadcast monthly on WPKN 895.FM Bridgeport and streaming at wpkn.org and via fabulous free listening apps - The Connecticut queen of beehives, blue-eyed-soul, and SNL singin’ takes to the WPKN airwaves presenting a soul power-hour of treasured trax deep in the Queen’s 45s and stax o’ wax. Tune in for a themed ride through the foundations of American soul and song. Hi, Stax, Goldwax, Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, Drummers, Songstresses, and Hucksters they’re all here poised with cigarettes and coffee.

Broadcast on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport and streaming at wpkn.org and via our fab free listening apps - “Is it a band? Is it a public relations firm? What does it do, and what is it?” A tour of glam, punk, funk and Connecticut junk accruing speeding tickets on the expressway to your SOUL! Doo-dah.

I like music and dogs more than humans. That said, dogs don’t speak so I will have some interesting humans as guest and hopefully get a few stories out of them. I also plan on playing many styles of sounds. You can’t beat the power of music, stories and laughter. I try to combine and share all of these on my show.

State of the Arts features guests from the Connecticut and tristate area in theater, visual arts, film, music and more.

Writer’s Voice is a weekly national radio show and podcast, on the air since 2004. Each week brings in-depth conversation with writers who challenge, inspire and inform. Check out our archives with journalists like James Risen and Jane Mayer, novelists like Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver and Louise Erdrich, poets like Richard Wilbur and Maxine Kumin, and many more notable guests.

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport! howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President

Broadcast on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport (wpkn.org). So Many Records So Little Time is a sprawling mix of styles and eras, starting in the ’50s, heating up by the ’60s and onward, right through to the present. A favorite challenge is crisscrossing genres. I love it all, I play it all.

My musical tastes swerve through Euro-pop, trip-hop, electronica, indie-rock, singer-songwriters. You might hear Icelandic rock, World music, Radiohead, Bjork, Tricky, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, The Books, Caroline Polachek, weird cover tunes, Milosh, Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Owen Pallett, Hot Chip, Dandy Warhols, Kae Tempest, In These Trees and Tartie, Perfume Genius, Brian Eno, Karsh Kale, War on Drugs, Moby, Patti Smith, Juana Molina, Peter Gabriel, to name a few. And poetry. And words. My interviews have included Chris Frantz, Jeff Pevar, Dick Cavett, David Denby, Harry Shearer, Katha Pollitt, Bert Randolph Sugar, Abigail Thomas, Carl Safina, Matthew Klam, Gretchen Rubin, Tig Notaro, Ophelia Eisenberg, and many more! Many will be available on my Interview podcast, coming soon.....

A forum for exploring design in our culture – not just its role in our lives now, but focusing on the radical changes that are happening. Hosted by Duo Dickinson, FAIA