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Arts and Ideas on CAI
Sunday evening from 7 to 11
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Join station founder Jay Allison for an eclectic mix of topics Sunday evenings 7 to 11pm.

Many programs on Arts & Ideas come from the Public Radio Exchange, a project of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole. If you heard something on Arts & Ideas, chances are you can find it on the PRX.

Produced by Viki Merrick fromAtlantic Public Media

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  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Stories of finding your people on a new Moth Radio Hour produced by us, street singer, a gospel traditionalist, and more music and the trains that brought American orphans to new homes.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: A debate on whether Former President Trump is guilty of charges for the attack on the U.S. Capitol, railroad tunes, sea chanteys, and mountain music and a Muslim community’s quest for acceptance after a hate crime.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Holding on and letting go on a New Moth radio Hour which we produce in Woods Hole, marimba music and labor union songs from the Smithsonian, and when music is the only way to share history.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Debating if Artificial Intelligence will kill the future of the creative arts, a legendary blind bluesman, and the state of LGBTQ rights in the U.S.
  • This week on Arts ad Ideas: A brand new Moth Radio Hour with stories of moments and people who changed everything, a musical winter solstice soundscape, and taking a look backward at holiday traditions of yore.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: A songwriter who’s written with pop stars and jazz musicians, a library starts a podcast about book banning, and the Christmas truce of World War I in 1914.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Stories of encounters with the animal kingdom on the Moth Radio Hour, helping people transition out of prison, and the co-founder of the band Steely Dan on what makes a good song.
  • Tune in Sunday night for Arts and Ideas: A look at what we eat and why, how effective Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are, and jazz music from the 1950s to now.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: A brand new Moth Radio Hour, produced by us in Woods Hole, music from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and how a challenge from John F. Kennedy inspired the Peace Corps.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: The story of a soldier’s determination, you don’t need objectivity for good journalism – yes or no, that’s the debate, and The music of Joni Mitchell and Big Bill Broonzy.