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
Djavan, Soul Blenders, The Supremes, Sly & The Family Stone, 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
Jimmy Dean, Bobby Darin, The Drifters, Charles Trenet, and more.
July 27th, 2024
The Mamas & The Papas, The Kingsmen, Roger Miller, John Lewis, and more.
July 20th, 2024
Linda Lyndell, Koko Taylor, Jimmy Dean, Ray Charles, 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
Les Filles de Illighadad, Phil Ochs, The Rustavi Choir, Ayub Ogada, and more.
June 16th, 2024
Marvin Gaye, The Staple Singers, The Ronettes, The RH Factor, and more.
June 9th, 2024
Woody Guthrie, Letta Mbulu, James Brown, Pasteur Lappe, and more.
June 2nd, 2024
Naomi Pilgrim, Jack Garratt, Stretch9, The 1975, and more.
May 26th, 2024
Nick Jonas, matoff, Oh Wonder, The Acid, and more.
May 19th, 2024
Odessa, Jaymes Young, Alberta Hunter, The Paper Kites, 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
The Smashing Pumpkins, The Lostines, Maddy Prior, Elliott Smith, and more.
April 12th, 2024
Steely Dan, and more.
April 5th, 2024
Talking Heads, Terry Hall, Hamid Al Shaeri, Papa Bear & His Cubs, and more.
Flying by the seat of my pants
Kimya Dawson, Odie Leigh, Tyler Childers, The Kinks, and more.
Spring?
Rosalie Sorrels, Men At Work, Talking Heads, Woody Guthrie, 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
TV Girl, The Police, Cocteau Twins, Cage The Elephant, 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
Sorry, Khruangbin, Dead Pretties, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, 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
The Chieftains, Fontaines D.C., Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, 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
Kanye West, Alyans, Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, Keith Mansfield, and more.
April 29th, 2022
Hatef Mehraban, Ayub Ogada, The Rustavi Choir, Zbigniew Preisner, and more.
Bliss
Carthago, Issam Hajali, Кино, The Cardigans, and more.
Avril 14th
Leon Vynehall, Four Tet, Green-House, Phoebe Bridgers, and more.
DISCO COWBOY 2
THE RETURN
Heartbeats?
Nancy Sinatra, John Williams, Jon Brion, Leonard Cohen, and more.
The Podcast NNPR
Instupendo, Ana Roxanne, Oneohtrix Point Never, Visible Cloaks, and more.
Porch Sittin
Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch
Whoops
Burzum, Seatbelts, Brenda Lee, Kristian Anttila, and more.
Snow
Kino, Miles Davis Quintet, Seatbelts, Chet Baker, and more.
Staff Picks
Various Artists, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Douaa, Death In Vegas, 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