Ginger Radio Hour: Nkoula Badila: Nov 21, 2023

Nkoula Badila works with the earth and the community. She founded Grow Black Hudson a few years ago and still runs its day-to-day focus on food and people. Badila will discuss growing your own food, t...

Ginger Radio Hour: Miriam Körner: Nov 07, 2023

In this broadcast, a conversation with Miriam Körner. Körner is the author and illustrator of the new book Fox and Bear, a modern fable about progress, production, the natural world, and quiet reflect...

Ginger Radio Hour: eteam: Oct 17, 2023

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Sy Montgomery: Oct 03, 2023

Naturalist and writer Sy Montgomery has a new book called Of Time and Turles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell. Did you know that turtles can regenerate nerve tissue? That they literally co...

Ginger Radio Hour: 20230919: Sep 19, 2023

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Viola He: Sep 05, 2023

Viola He, a Wave Farm 2023 Resident Artist, is a true maker: a maker of art, music, participatory audio experiences, and quiet spaces for play and communication. He chats with media theorist Natasha C...

Ginger Radio Hour: Gloria Dickie: Aug 15, 2023

Gloria Dickie's fascinating new book is called "Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future." It's packed full of stories and nuggets about the eight species of bears left on Earth. Dickie, an envir...

Ginger Radio Hour: Brian Knauer: Aug 01, 2023

Brian Knauer has been painting for almost his entire life, concentrating on oil painting since 1995. He's a tremendous artist and also my friend. He recently moved his primary studio from Brooklyn to...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lukas Volger: Jul 18, 2023

Chef and cookbook author Lukas Volger sets the table for a summer filled with veggie burgers — grilled, baked, sautéed, and fried. His impressive book "Veggie Burgers Every Which Way" has just been re...

Ginger Radio Hour: Steve Shunk: Jul 04, 2023

Steve Shunk knows woodpeckers. He's also a naturalist, conservationist, birder, and guide, based in Oregon. We chat about the seven or so woodpecker species that live in the Catskills and Hudson Valle...

Ginger Radio Hour: Mellow Marshmallow Hour: Jun 20, 2023

Thirty years ago, host Justin Maiman pitched my college radio station a new music show called "The Mellow Marshmallow Hour." It never came to be — for many reasons. So today marks a second chance: to...

Ginger Radio Hour: Florist: Jun 06, 2023

A celebration of Florist featuring an interview excerpt and their music. The Catskills-based band Florist continues to tour around their self-titled album from 2022. The 19 tracks, recorded in a rente...

Ginger Radio Hour: Rick Ostfeld: May 16, 2023

It's May — prime tick time in the Hudson Valley and Catskills — so we're talking tick prevention and more with Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecologist and senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem...

Ginger Radio Hour: Black Holes: May 02, 2023

According to physicist Janna Levin: "Black holes are nothing. Black holes are special because there's nothing there. There is no thing there." Sounds special indeed, but also lonely. So we've made a p...

Ginger Radio Hour: Earth Day: Apr 18, 2023

In celebration of Earth Day, a show focused on gardens, soil, sun, and starting over. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features mu...

Ginger Radio Hour: Marc Hamer: Apr 04, 2023

Gardener, artist, and writer Marc Hamer has a new book called Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens. In many ways, it's a guide book for a life well-lived, given up to love and forgiveness. Our convers...

Ginger Radio Hour: Organ music: Mar 21, 2023

The Hammond B-3, the Wurlitzer, the Clavinet, the TONTO synthesizer — all featured in our playlist because we couldn't get enough organ music into the last show! Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, sha...

Ginger Radio Hour: Bob Chuk: Mar 07, 2023

In 1978, musician Bob Chuk sat down and recorded a set at his Wurlitzer in Chicago, Illinois. The tape still exists and we'll play the whole thing and a new recording of his memories of that evening....

Ginger Radio Hour: Robert and Johanna Titus: Feb 21, 2023

Robert and Johanna Titus are collectively known as "The Catskills Geologist" and have been writing, conducting research, and walking the trails of the Catskill Mountains for decades. As they put the f...

Ginger Radio Hour: Steve Gonzalez, Scott Ketchum: Jan 17, 2023

A few years ago, Steve Gonzalez and Scott Ketchum moved Sfoglini Pasta from Brooklyn to Coxsackie. The company was built around a passion for pasta made in a traditional way and with organic ingredien...

Ginger Radio Hour: Leila Philip: Jan 03, 2023

Writer Leila Philip has written the definitive book about the beaver and its role in shaping the Hudson Valley and North America: "They've been taken for granted or considered a pest or a nuisance, an...

Ginger Radio Hour: Favorite Songs of 2022: Dec 20, 2022

In this broadcast, host Justin Maiman shares his favorite songs of 2022, from Alabaster dePlume, Rosalía, Weyes Blood, The Weekend, Mdou Moctar, Florist, The Smile, PJ Harvey, and more. Host Justi...

Ginger Radio Hour: Best of Ginger Radio 2022: Dec 06, 2022

In this broadcast, new highlights from four inspirational moments captured on the show over the past year, including poet Cornelius Eady, an extended interview with the band Florist, the Ginger Collec...

Ginger Radio Hour: Hibernation Mixtape: Nov 15, 2022

The black bears, bats, hedgehogs, turtles, skunks, and tree frogs of the Catskills are getting ready to bed down for the long winter. Host Justin Maiman has produced an hour-long mixtape to get them t...

Ginger Radio Hour: David Peña-Guzmán: Nov 01, 2022

David Peña-Guzmán writes that "dreams are odes the animal mind sings to itself during sleep." In his new book When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, he lays out a convincing arg...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lucy Sante: Oct 18, 2022

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Interstellar Space Music: Oct 04, 2022

On September 5, 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 into space. 45 years later, it is careening around interstellar space and still sending data back to Earth. Aboard that spacecraft is the Golden Record, f...

Ginger Radio Hour: Sam Sadigursky: Sep 20, 2022

In this broadcast, a conversation with clarinetist and composer Sam Sadigursky was so inspired by the Catskills and Borscht Belt that he created a three-volume work of music about the place called The...

Ginger Radio Hour: Marc Swanson: Aug 16, 2022

In this broadcast, a conversation with Catskill artist Marc Swanson. Swanson has a new show titled, "A Memorial To Ice At The Dead Deer Disco." The series of installation pieces is jointly presented a...

Ginger Radio Hour: Florist: Aug 02, 2022

Catskills band Florist has released a self-titled album, the fourth full-length album from the quartet in a decade. The 19 tracks, recorded in the summer of 2019 in a rented house the band shared in t...

Ginger Radio Hour: Gabriela Hasbun: Jul 19, 2022

Photographer Gabriela Hasbun's new book The New Black West: Photographs From America's Only Touring Black Rodeo tells the story of cowboy and cowgirl culture of the American West through photographs a...

Ginger Radio Hour: Ancient Forest Songs: Jul 05, 2022

In 2019, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s oldest fossil forest in Cairo, NY, after uncovering the root systems of 385 million-year-old trees. This evidence reveals Earth's original fo...

Ginger Radio Hour: Marisa Scheinfeld: Jun 21, 2022

In this broadcast, a conversation with Catskills photographer and author Marisa Scheinfeld about her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland. After spending yea...

Ginger Radio Hour: Kelefa Sanneh: Jun 07, 2022

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Allyson Levy, Scott Serrano: May 17, 2022

This broadcast features a conversation with Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano about their quest to create a living textbook of plants that can be grown in the Hudson Valley. From Pawpaws to Korean Stone...

Ginger Radio Hour: Bob Mankoff: May 03, 2022

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Feeling Spring: Apr 19, 2022

Inspired by spring, the broadcast will feature the sounds of the season, including music, field recordings, poetry, and more. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "...

Ginger Radio Hour: Radio Deprogramming Collective: Apr 05, 2022

This broadcast was inspired by a recent workshop led by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow Andy Stuhl, the first in a collection of curated community audio uploads featuring recorded sound, music, readings...

Ginger Radio Hour: Cornelius Eady: Mar 15, 2022

In this broadcast, poet and musician Cornelius Eady will discuss writing and recording music in the Catskills, and will read from his book of poetry, Hardheaded Weather. Plus, music from the new Corne...

Ginger Radio Hour: Gary Shteyngart: Mar 01, 2022

Writer Gary Shteyngart talks about his new book "Our Country Friends" — centered on eight friends riding out the pandemic in a country house in the Hudson Valley. It's "a story about love, friendship,...

Ginger Radio Hour: Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright: Feb 15, 2022

Hudson Valley-based writer Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright talks about his new book "The Door-Man." A mix of historical fact and fiction, the novel tells the story of the flooding of the town of Gilboa...

Ginger Radio Hour: Carla Rhodes: Feb 01, 2022

Catskills-based wildlife conservation photographer Carla Rhodes helped host Justin Maiman to discover the special qualities of the Dark-Eyed Juncos frolicking along the ground. Rhodes shared some stor...

Ginger Radio Hour: Music and sounds for extraterrestrials: Jan 18, 2022

In this broadcast, 45 years ago, NASA launched the Golden Record into space aboard the Voyager I. On the record: popular music and a message to aliens from the people and animals of Earth, as produced...

Ginger Radio Hour: Bird Songs: Jan 04, 2022

This week: The first "Ginger Radio" of the new year features bird songs from Cornell's Library of Natural Sounds, related music, and much more. Show Notes Starring: The songbirds from Cornell Uni...

Ginger Radio Hour: A Celebration of the Solstice: Dec 21, 2021

A countdown to the winter solstice with music, poetry, and much more. Host Justin Maiman is live from the WGXC Acra studio. More info about Justin Maiman and Ginger: Ginger Newsletter Host Justin...

Ginger Radio Hour: A Celebration of the Solstice: Dec 21, 2021

A countdown to the winter solstice with music, poetry, and much more with host Justin Maiman, live from the WGXC Acra studio.. More info about Justin Maiman and Ginger: Ginger Newsletter Host Jus...

Ginger Radio Hour: 20211130: Dec 07, 2021

Host Justin Maiman is live from the WGXC Acra studio. More info about Justin Maiman and Ginger: Ginger Newsletter Host Justin Maiman shares his latest inspirations on the Ginger Radio Hour. The s...

Ginger Radio Hour: Kathy Stevens: Nov 16, 2021

In this broadcast, Kathy Stevens from the Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties sat in a meadow with host Justin Maiman and braved the gnats to talk about the horses, goats, pigs, and more. More...

Ginger Radio Hour: Peter and the Wolf: Nov 02, 2021

In this broadcast, listeners will learn more about the enduring power of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Actor and writer Jeremy Nicholas speaks with host Justin Maiman about his knowledge of t...

Ginger Radio Hour: WGXC 10th Anniversary Radio For Open Ears Pledge Drive: Oct 19, 2021

The second broadcast of this show takes place during the WGXC 10th Anniversary Radio For Open Ears PLedge Drive, live from WGXC's Acra studio. Host Justin Maiman shares his latest inspirations on t...