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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

Sly & The Family Stone, Funkadelic, The Supremes, Soul Blenders, 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

Sam Cooke, The Drifters, Charles Trenet, Frank Lynch, and more.

July 27th, 2024

Betty Carter, Dakota Staton, The Beatles, Amazonics, and more.

July 20th, 2024

Linda Lyndell, Sonny & Cher, Van McCoy, Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, 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

Hamied El Shaeri, S.E. Rogie, United Sacred Harp Musical Association, The Rustavi Choir, and more.

June 16th, 2024

The RH Factor, Soul Blenders, Andy Williams, Diana Ross & The Supremes, and more.

June 9th, 2024

Prince & The Revolution, The Beatles, C.W. Stoneking, Vaundy, and more.

June 2nd, 2024

James TW, The 1975, The Acid, Sinead Harnett, and more.

May 26th, 2024

Nick Jonas, gnash, Nelson Can, Kixxie Siete, and more.

May 19th, 2024

Wet, Odessa, Who Is Fancy, JOY., 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

Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Nina Simone, Bejamin Britten, Blondie, and more.

April 12th, 2024

Steely Dan, and more.

April 5th, 2024

Talking Heads, Cortex, The Lijadu Sisters, Papa Bear & His Cubs, and more.

Flying by the seat of my pants

Tyler Childers, The Louvin Brothers, Peggy Seeger, Joni Mitchell, and more.

Spring?

Tír na nÓg, George Harrison, Phil Ochs, 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

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

Bleach Lab, La Femme, TV Girl, Courting, 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

Bloc Party, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, John Carpenter, Bad Nerves, 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

Joan Baez, The Chieftains, Pete Seeger, Fontaines D.C., 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

Slowdive, Alyans, Альянс, Ethics, and more.

April 29th, 2022

The Teskey Brothers, Para One, Ayub Ogada, The Rustavi Choir, and more.

Bliss

Carthago, Clairo, The Cardigans, Men I Trust, and more.

Avril 14th

Aphex Twin, Christopher Jackson, Leon Vynehall, Phoebe Bridgers, and more.

DISCO COWBOY 2

THE RETURN

Heartbeats?

José González, Michael Nyman Band, Jets to Brazil, Sam Cooke, and more.

The Podcast NNPR

Tim Hecker, Air, Pantha Du Prince, Ana Roxanne, and more.

Porch Sittin

Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch

Whoops

Brenda Lee, Bernard Herrmann, Alabaster Deplume, Giles Corey, and more.

Snow

Ssaliva, The Smiths, Bobby Charles, San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, and more.

Staff Picks

Ahmad Al Kosem, Jonathan Richman, Death In Vegas, Townes Van Zandt, 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