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Turn That Dial Productions

Please join us for the last ever season of Turn That Dial Productions. Each week our studio team lead by DJ FriendOfTheShow embarks on an exploration of the world's music curated to a different theme, genre, or location. Our talented team of reporters, correspondents, time travelers, and magicians have traveled to the edges of the earth and depths of history collecting interesting sounds and songs for you, our dear listener. From the African Sahel to the mountains of Paraguay, The US Civil War to Detroit House, tune in and hear it all only on WRBB

# of Episodes

58

Host

DJ FriendOfTheShow

First Aired

February 4th, 2022

Last Episode

August 17th, 2024

Previous broadcasts

August 17th, 2024

Bobby Darin, Soul Blenders, Lee Dorsey, Rita Lee, and more.

Fare the well and Goodbye !!

This is our last show ever ! Thank you for listening, I love you all !! Goodbye !!!!

August 3rd, 2024

Charles Trenet, Gil Scott-Heron, Jimmy Dean, Lee Dorsey, and more.

July 27th, 2024

Bill Withers, Billy Preston, Gil Scott-Heron, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and more.

July 20th, 2024

Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, James Brown, Sonny & Cher, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and more.

The Last Stretch

Getting back into the groove in the stuido, playing some new music, and learning how to play some vinyl

June 23rd, 2024

S.E. Rogie, Les Filles de Illighadad, Ayub Ogada, The Rustavi Choir, and more.

June 16th, 2024

Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Andy Williams, Aretha Franklin, and more.

June 9th, 2024

The Beatles, Pasteur Lappe, Vaundy, Al Green, and more.

June 2nd, 2024

Stephen, Haim, Twenty One Pilots, James TW, and more.

May 26th, 2024

gnash, Jon Bellion, matoff, Porches, and more.

May 19th, 2024

Trent Dabbs, Neon Trees, Twenty One Pilots, Kita Alexander, and more.

Into the Summer

Last show before the summer. But not the end yet !!

Solidarity in Song

Today's show will be a discussion of the campus protests in support for Palestinians and a collection of topical songs from the 1960s.

nearing the end

Modest Mouse, Nina Simone, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Labi Siffre, and more.

April 12th, 2024

Steely Dan, and more.

April 5th, 2024

Rockpile, Papa Bear & His Cubs, Talking Heads, Betty N' Boop, and more.

Flying by the seat of my pants

Второй этаж поражает, Charlie Parr, The Kinks, Kimya Dawson, and more.

Spring?

Tír na nÓg, Phil Ochs, Jonathan Richman, The Vapors, and more.

No Labels

another show just sifting through the archive on a rainy day

Free Wheeling Spring Breaker

shooting from the hip this week

March 1st, 2024

Sun Ra, The Nerves, and more.

History of the Strings

This week we attempt to deliver a history of string instruments, starting in 13,000 BCE.

Dispatch from the Symphony

Our correspondent will be runnin into the studio after a rousing afternoon at Boston’s finest Symphony with a report on what really goes on in those vaulted halls

Uranium Fever

Songs about the Bomb.

February 2nd, 2024

Donald Byrd, Courting, TV Girl, Jordan Dean, and more.

The Beginning of the End

We're back to say goodbye

Backseat Tractor

Last Show for a longtime ! We've flown a special guest out here to the studio so join us and The Warrior Queen for an hour of throwback jams.

episode 6.75 - lobotomy in panera

Lauren from Lobotomy in Panera subs for Turn That Dial Productions.

TTD In The Valley

A collection of 60s french tunes to close out a rainy Sunday here in Boston

Appalachian Day Dream

As we get ready to head home for thanksgiving we put together some songs from the most beautiful place on earth. The colour is orange and the cider is hot

Blood in the West

The beginning of some reflection on the long violent history of The West

Staff Picks

Letting the chimps of the studio pick out CDs from a pile and playing what they find

Songs of the Sea

Head of the Charles weekend and we're looking at boats here at the studio

October 16th, 2022

Bad Nerves, Sorry, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Bloc Party, and more.

Heartworn Highways and Homesick Byways

Returning to the roots this week witha country show and a tribute to Loretta Lynn

Dispatch From The Other World

This week we turn the show over to our Office of Interplanetary Affairs who let their remaining interns fill us in on what it sounds like way out there.

The Return

Turn That Dial Productions returns to the Radio with a survey of what might get covered this season

THE LAWMEN REVOLT

This is the end of summer, the end of summers

Overflow

Some extra songs found while researching previous episode. Playing them now before the summer season finale next sunday.

Songs of the Defeated

Usa, Waylon Jennings, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and more.

The Paraguayan Harp among other things

An intro to Paraguayan harp music and some digressions around the globe

Dispatches from the West

Music from that Great American Frontier, compiled in a Town called Freedom.

A Brand New Season

Intro to the show and a bit of an over view of some upcoming segments

All Things Must Pass

Keith Mansfield, Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, Clairo, Kanye West, and more.

April 29th, 2022

Liam Harris, Zbigniew Preisner, Philippe Jaroussky, The Bulgarian Voices, and more.

Bliss

Issam Hajali, Men I Trust, Syd Barrett, Brotherly, and more.

Avril 14th

Abc Dialect, Green-House, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Christopher Jackson, and more.

DISCO COWBOY 2

THE RETURN

Heartbeats?

Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek, Jonathan Richman, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, and more.

The Podcast NNPR

Instupendo, Ana Roxanne, Visible Cloaks, Colleen, and more.

Porch Sittin

Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch

Whoops

Giles Corey, Seatbelts, Brenda Lee, Kristian Anttila, and more.

Snow

San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, Chet Baker, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Ssaliva, and more.

Staff Picks

Death In Vegas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Weezer, Douaa, and more.

America's Favourites

Broadcasting live from Burpelson Airforce Base, it's Football Week in America. Bringing you the best from the Greatest Country in the history of the world. There is only one flavour: Freedom.

Episode 1: Jacques Camembert

Regatably French