WYPR: The Signal Podcast

4.12 & 4.13 on The Signal: Globe Poster’s Bob & Frank Cicero reflect on the past and present of their iconic event posters; music and conversation with the kid-friendly band “Milkshake”; and a profile of Baltimore’s all-female robotice team, The RoboDoves

April 5th & 6th, 2013, on The Signal: Elisabeth Dahl discusses her young adult novel, “Genie Wishes”; we learn the story of a nearly forgotten cemetery on the grounds of the now-shuttered Crownsville State Hospital, where patients buried their own; and writer Eric D Goodman shares the story of a survivor’s pilgrimage to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

March 29th & 30th on The Signal: Film critic Josh Slates on the highlights of the Hong Kong International Film Festival; traditional music with father-and-son duo Ken and Brad Kolodner; and a remembrance of the late poet ‘Blaster’ Al Ackerman.

Exercise, GPS art, traffic lights, music on the MARC, alternative currency, and the library - a surprising collection of stories about 'circulation' this week on The Signal.

This week on The Signal: Childhood lies confessed by guilty grown-ups; experimental electronic duo Matmos; and singer/songwriter Andrew Grimm of June Star.

This week on The Signal: music and conversation with Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi; political cartoonist Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher; Pastor Amy Sens at The Stoop; and a tour of Union Craft Brewing.

In a radio adaptation Rob Roensch’s story, “Henry,” a woman tries to cope with a husband who’s been possessed by Henry David Thoreau; a preview of the 2013 NOVO Festival of Instrumental Music; and a brain researcher asks – can creativity be scientifically measured?

A preview of the Sprout Film Festival, a showcase of movies by and about people with developmental disabilities; a Stoop story about a romantic misadventure atop the Empire State Building; and Arthur Magida on his book, “The Nazi Séance”

Bernice L McFadden's novel, Nowhere is a Place; Ross Kelbaugh's "Maryland’s Civil War Photographs"; Stillpointe Theatre Initiative’s "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin"; and poet Steve Matanle with the Baltimore band Red Sammy.

The oral history project, "For All the World to Hear" Stoop Stories about Parenthood from Joe Sugarman and Debbie Page, poetry from Kwame Alexander, and a visit with and Aerialist Mara Neimanis

February 1st & 2nd, 2013, on The Signal: tour guide Zippy Larsen shares what happens when she takes tourists outside the bubble of the Inner Harbor and into the real neighborhoods of Baltimore; China Martens talks about the intersection of parenthood and political action; Marianne Amoss stares down the specter of her 30th birthday; and Ink Press Productions joins us with a new publication called, “Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today”.

From a cave in Kentucky, to a school in Mississippi, to a prison in Arkansas, Stephen Wade has traveled the country in search of the living roots of iconic Library of Congress records. He joins us with storiees and songs from his book, "The Beautiful Music all around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience."

January 18 & 19, 2013, on The Signal: Punk legend Ian Svenonius reveals the wisdom of post-corporeal rockers in his book, “Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band”; Kevin ‘Kal’ Kallaugher reflects on 35 years as a political cartoonist; and honkey tonk singer/songwriter Karen Collins shares music from her CD, “No Yodeling on The Radio”

January 11th & 12th, 2013, on The Signal: Davy’s Rothbart on his new book, My Heart is an Idiot; a visit with boxing trainer Jake ‘The Snake’ Smith; a radio portrait of longtime Highlandtown resident Eugenie Benser; an exploration of the music and mysticism of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff; and poetry from Rupert Wondolowski

1.4 & 1.5 on The Signal: Mountain music matriarch Ola Belle Reed is remembered in story and song by her son Dave Reed, her nephews Zane and Hugh Campbell, and her friends Burton Debusk and Linda Weaver.