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
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Clarence Clemons, Shirley Horn, Djavan, 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
Brenda Lee, Charles Trenet, James Brown, Bobby Darin, and more.
July 27th, 2024
Tony Orlando & Dawn, The Drifters, Dakota Staton, Roger Miller, and more.
July 20th, 2024
Van McCoy, Sonny & Cher, Al Green, Wayne Newton, 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
Etran de L'AÏr, Les Filles de Illighadad, Hamied El Shaeri, Phil Ochs, and more.
June 16th, 2024
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Otis Redding, Shirley Horn, The RH Factor, and more.
June 9th, 2024
Pasteur Lappe, The Beatles, Fontaines D.C., James Brown, and more.
June 2nd, 2024
Mikky Ekko, Stretch9, Tei Shi, Twenty One Pilots, and more.
May 26th, 2024
Tei Shi, Kixxie Siete, matoff, gnash, and more.
May 19th, 2024
Neon Trees, Liza Anne, The Paper Kites, 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
Nina Simone, The Lostines, Ichiko Aoba, Elliott Smith, and more.
April 12th, 2024
Steely Dan, and more.
April 5th, 2024
The Lijadu Sisters, Rockpile, Talking Heads, Betty N' Boop, and more.
Flying by the seat of my pants
Adrianne Lenker, The Louvin Brothers, Mabel Ye, Townes Van Zandt, and more.
Spring?
Cliff Richard, Jim Croce, Rosalie Sorrels, 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
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
Del Water Gap, Dominic Fike, Pixies, Donald Byrd, 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, Dead Pretties, John Carpenter, Pip Blom, 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, Waylon Jennings, Pete Seeger, Usa, 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, Márquez, Clairo, Holden, and more.
April 29th, 2022
Philippe Jaroussky, Hatef Mehraban, Ayub Ogada, Liam Harris, and more.
Bliss
The Cardigans, Cortex, Townes Van Zandt, Syd Barrett, and more.
Avril 14th
Four Tet, Green-House, Hailu Mergia, Leon Vynehall, and more.
DISCO COWBOY 2
THE RETURN
Heartbeats?
Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Tammy Wynette, Phil Ochs, and more.
The Podcast NNPR
Elliott Smith, Tim Hecker, Instupendo, Kurt Stenzel, and more.
Porch Sittin
Relaxin tunes for sittin on your porch
Whoops
Brenda Lee, Seatbelts, Bernard Herrmann, Burzum, and more.
Snow
San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, Kino, Ssaliva, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, and more.
Staff Picks
Jonathan Richman, Douaa, 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