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
Funkadelic, Djavan, Lee Dorsey, Female Species, 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
Lee Dorsey, Etta James, The Drifters, Sly & The Family Stone, and more.
July 27th, 2024
Gil Scott-Heron, Dakota Staton, Leon Bridges, The Drifters, and more.
July 20th, 2024
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Van McCoy, Wayne Newton, James Brown, 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
Phil Ochs, Earth, Wind & Fire, Les Filles de Illighadad, Hamied El Shaeri, and more.
June 16th, 2024
The RH Factor, Andy Williams, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, and more.
June 9th, 2024
James Brown, Letta Mbulu, Glen Campbell, Prince & The Revolution, and more.
June 2nd, 2024
Naomi Pilgrim, Twenty One Pilots, The Acid, Haim, and more.
May 26th, 2024
gnash, The Acid, In The Valley Below, Nelson Can, and more.
May 19th, 2024
Jaymes Young, Wet, Liza Anne, Lenachka, 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
Elliott Smith, Labi Siffre, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ichiko Aoba, and more.
April 12th, 2024
Steely Dan, and more.
April 5th, 2024
Papa Bear & His Cubs, The Lijadu Sisters, Betty N' Boop, Nick Lowe, and more.
Flying by the seat of my pants
Townes Van Zandt, Второй этаж поражает, Jose Gonzales, Joni Mitchell, and more.
Spring?
Growing Pains, The Vapors, George Harrison, Talking Heads, 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
The Nerves, Sun Ra, 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, Del Water Gap, TV Girl, Pixies, 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
Pip Blom, Sorry, Fontaines D.C., Khruangbin, 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
Fontaines D.C., Steeleye Span, The Chieftains, 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
Ethics, Nicolas Caballero, Alyans, Альянс, and more.
April 29th, 2022
Liam Harris, Zbigniew Preisner, Ayub Ogada, The Rustavi Choir, and more.
Bliss
Issam Hajali, Alyans, Carthago, Yung Lean/FKA Twigs, and more.
Avril 14th
Phoebe Bridgers, Oneohtrix Point Never, Four Tet, Leon Vynehall, and more.
DISCO COWBOY 2
THE RETURN
Heartbeats?
Petula Clark, Nancy Sinatra, Michael Nyman Band, Phil Ochs, and more.
The Podcast NNPR
Instupendo, Pantha Du Prince, naran ratan, Colleen, and more.
Porch Sittin
Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch
Whoops
Bernard Herrmann, Alabaster Deplume, Brenda Lee, Giles Corey, and more.
Snow
The Smiths, Ssaliva, Kino, Lee Fields & The Expressions, and more.
Staff Picks
Jonathan Richman, Steve Earle, Weezer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, 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