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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

Funkadelic, Sam Cooke, The Miracles, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, 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

Etta James, Frank Lynch, Shirley Horn, Brenda Lee, and more.

July 27th, 2024

Dakota Staton, Leon Bridges, The Beatles, John Lewis, and more.

July 20th, 2024

Wayne Newton, Sonny & Cher, Nat Turner Rebellion, Al Green, 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, Charlie Parr, Townes Van Zandt, Earth, Wind & Fire, and more.

June 16th, 2024

Diana Ross & The Supremes, Etta James, The RH Factor, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and more.

June 9th, 2024

Fontaines D.C., Woody Guthrie, James Brown, The Beatles, and more.

June 2nd, 2024

Låpsley, Josef Salvat, Sinead Harnett, Twenty One Pilots, and more.

May 26th, 2024

In The Valley Below, Jon Bellion, Nelson Can, Oh Wonder, and more.

May 19th, 2024

The Paper Kites, Jeremih, Jaymes Young, Liza Anne, 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

Ichiko Aoba, Neutral Milk Hotel, Labi Siffre, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more.

April 12th, 2024

Steely Dan, and more.

April 5th, 2024

Cortex, Ana Frango Elétrico, Broder Daniel, Rockpile, and more.

Flying by the seat of my pants

Charlie Parr, Odie Leigh, The Louvin Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, and more.

Spring?

Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers, Squeeze, Growing Pains, The Kinks, 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

Bleach Lab, Cage The Elephant, 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

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Bad Nerves, The Chats, Queens Of The Stone Age, 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

Phil Ochs, Usa, Woody Guthrie, Steeleye Span, 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

Holden, George Harrison, Françoise Hardy, Ethics, and more.

April 29th, 2022

Philippe Jaroussky, Para One, Zbigniew Preisner, The Bulgarian Voices, and more.

Bliss

Cortex, The Cardigans, Syd Barrett, Clairo, and more.

Avril 14th

Ana Roxanne, Green-House, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Leon Vynehall, and more.

DISCO COWBOY 2

THE RETURN

Heartbeats?

Willie Nelson, Bobby Charles, Leonard Cohen, Jets to Brazil, and more.

The Podcast NNPR

Elliott Smith, naran ratan, Visible Cloaks, Air, and more.

Porch Sittin

Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch

Whoops

Seatbelts, Bernard Herrmann, Giles Corey, Kristian Anttila, and more.

Snow

Lee Fields & The Expressions, Ssaliva, Bobby Charles, The Smiths, and more.

Staff Picks

Ahmad Al Kosem, The Honeycombs, Hamid Al Shaeri, 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