20240305: Mar 05, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240220: Feb 20, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240206: Feb 06, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240116: Jan 16, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240102: Jan 02, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20231219: Dec 19, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

20231205: Dec 05, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Nkoula Badila: Nov 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Miriam Körner: Nov 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

eteam: Oct 17, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Sy Montgomery: Oct 03, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Mountains: Sep 19, 2023: 10am - 11am

Sounds, recordings, and music inspired by a hike in Catskill Park, an area that rolls out across 700,000 acres and four counties, including Greene County. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his...

Viola He: Sep 05, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Gloria Dickie: Aug 15, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Brian Knauer: Aug 01, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Lukas Volger: Jul 18, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Steve Shunk: Jul 04, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Mellow Marshmallow Hour: Jun 20, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Florist: Jun 06, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Rick Ostfeld: May 16, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Black Holes: May 02, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Earth Day: Apr 18, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Marc Hamer: Apr 04, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Organ music: Mar 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Bob Chuk: Mar 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

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....

Robert and Johanna Titus: Feb 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Fern Apfel: Feb 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

Host Justin Maiman speaks with Kinderhook-based still-life painter Fern Apfel, who focuses on remnants of the past, including diary pages, letters, books, and illuminated manuscripts. The conversation...

Steve Gonzalez, Scott Ketchum: Jan 17, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Leila Philip: Jan 03, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Favorite Songs of 2022: Dec 20, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Best of Ginger Radio 2022: Dec 06, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Hibernation Mixtape: Nov 15, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

David Peña-Guzmán: Nov 01, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Lucy Sante: Oct 18, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Interstellar Space Music: Oct 04, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Sam Sadigursky: Sep 20, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Marc Swanson: Aug 16, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Florist: Aug 02, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Gabriela Hasbun: Jul 19, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Ancient Forest Songs: Jul 05, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Marisa Scheinfeld: Jun 21, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Kelefa Sanneh: Jun 07, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Allyson Levy, Scott Serrano: May 17, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Bob Mankoff: May 03, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Feeling Spring: Apr 19, 2022: 10am - 11am

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 "...

Radio Deprogramming Collective: Apr 05, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Cornelius Eady: Mar 15, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Gary Shteyngart: Mar 01, 2022: 10am - 11am

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,...

Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright: Feb 15, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...

Carla Rhodes: Feb 01, 2022: 10am - 11am

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...