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ws
- Since: 1993
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Avant-retrogarde sub host & NoizAssembly (Incoming Wounded house band). Formerly WEFT Programming Committee chair (2010ish) & secretary (2007ish), engineer/cohost on The Prairie Monk (1993-2011), GDHour/Vault Hour collective (2001-2010), and trainer. Started at 10-watt WOUI-Chicago in 1985.
ws's previous playlists
Feb 15, 2024 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Time Capsule bonus round
Music
With ws
Time Capsule 1974 bonus round
Time Capsule 1974 bonus round - Bill's unsolicited post-season Personal Lost Episode
(Note: Several selections are radio edits.)
Nov 30, 2023 12:30 AM – 2:30 AM
Time Capsule bonus round
Music
With ws
Time Capsule 1973 bonus round Pt 2
Bill's supplement to Todd's Time Capsule 1973 of 12/6/2023 - Pt 2. British invaders and American starters.
NOTE: THIS PROGRAM STARTED AT *12:15 AM* DUE TO EARLIER PROGRAM SNAFUS. TO START, SELECT THE 15-MINUTE MARK (":15") IN THE STREAMING PLAYER ABOVE, THEN CLICK PLAY. And wait about 10 seconds...it's there...
Nov 23, 2023 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Time Capsule bonus round
Music
With ws
Time Capsule 1973 bonus round Pt 1
Bill's supplement to Todd's Time Capsule 1973 of 12/6/2023 - Pt 1. Epics / art rock
Sep 10, 2023 12:00 AM – 4:00 AM
InComing Wounded
Music
With ws
Mr. X subs a 2nd week, against his better judgment
Jan 8, 2023 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
The Prairie Monk closeout + Monk's edu/ERES history 19971228
Closeout: David Monk's writing on clearing out one's family home (IHA 1988 reprint) + Bill's quasi-random selections from the Monk's Junks + David Monk's education narrative, from student and teacher in Australia's agricultural boarding high school system, to the University of Illinois curriculum lab, to the evolution and purpose of Monk's not-for-profit platform Educational Resources in Environmental Science (ERES) [rebroadcast of WEFT interview 19971228]... + The Prairie Monk radio program farewell. Producer (and sound designer): ws.
Jan 1, 2023 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 19971221 & PMonk 20170625 The Southern Tea Rooms/apts + PMonk 20051225 Train home from boarding school [*]
[*Make-up air broadcast of PMonk 20221225.] Rebroadcasts of PMonk 19971221 w/guests Susan, Mary, & Karlyne: backgrounds and origin places, Monk's ERES pop-up shop (before anybody called anything that!) at 111 N Mkt St -> PMonk 20170625: Kay Aston, ToESL, The Southern Tea Rooms era(s) on Green St in campustown + Rebroadcast of PMonk 20051225: Returning home for Xmas -- Dave Monk's father and mother, agricultural high school boarding school at Glenfield NSW, and taking the trains back home for the holiday (summer) break. Producers: ws + dw + dm.
Dec 25, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 19971221 & PMonk 20170625 The Southern Tea Rooms/apts + PMonk 20051225 Train home from boarding school
Rebroadcasts of PMonk 19971221 w/guests Susan, Mary, & Karlyne: backgrounds and origin places, Monk's ERES pop-up shop (before anybody called anything that!) at 111 N Mkt St -> PMonk 20170625: Kay Aston, ToESL, The Southern Tea Rooms era(s) on Green St in campustown + Rebroadcast of PMonk 20051225: Returning home for Xmas -- Dave Monk's father and mother, agricultural high school boarding school at Glenfield NSW, and taking the trains back home for the holiday (summer) break. Producers: ws + dw + dm. [Note: Program did not air on FM on 12/25/2022 due to weather. Program repeated, including on air, on 1/1/2023.]
Dec 18, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
The Prairie Monk in memoriam 2022 pt. 3: Archiving and gratitude
Silkscreen print images as educational resources in environmental science, incl guest Kathy Martin on cataloguing archived Monk/ERES silkscreen prints (2022) + David Monk on the Australian sentinel gum tree image at the vernal pond, careful closeout and salvage rerouting, scoping the natural and cultural setting of the (then-much-prospective-and-unnamed) Kickapoo Rail Trail corridor near Danville, and gratitude for volunteers old and new, excerpted from various Prairie Monk broadcasts 1997-2010. Producer: ws. (This episode will be re-edited for reposting on the WEFT Public Affairs archive. - ws 12/18/2022)
Dec 11, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
The Prairie Monk in memoriam 2022 pt. 2 (ws) + Monk on icons and leadership (PMonk 2008-2009)
Reflections on the life and work of David Monk (d. 2022-12-02) pt. 2, by ws + Monk on icons, leadership, and advocating interdisciplinary participation, excerpted from PMonk broadcasts 20081026 & 20090301 & 20091122. Also, briefly, State Sen. Scott Bennett in mem. 2022. (This episode will be re-edited for reposting on the WEFT Public Affairs archive. - ws 12/18/2022)
Dec 4, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
The Prairie Monk in memoriam 2022 pt. 1 (ws) + PMonk 19921101 Prairies in south Champaign County IL
Reflections on the life and work of David Monk (d. 2022-12-02) pt. 1, by ws + Monk's field descriptions of prairie remnants and restorations in the south part of Champaign-Urbana and Champaign County IL, recorded Nov 1992. (This episode will be re-edited for reposting on the WEFT Public Affairs archive. - ws 12/18/2022)
Nov 27, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20021124 + 20071125 Australian harvest & old roads / droving and driving
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20021124: Australian Harvest festival + old Australian roads: the old convict-built road to Penrith, the stock road, the commons, RRs, exotic fruit in the Blue Mtns, Dunc's droves, Woody Cleaver; + Rebroadcast of PMonk 20071125: Pelicans + edge ecology + rugby union & college phys ed + towering billboards on I-57 + winter stands + osage orange hedgerows + DOT invasives guide. Producer: ws.
Nov 20, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20090607 Prairie plot planting + St. Boniface Bondville + Monticello road cut
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20090607 w/guest co-host Mike Sczerba: Grand Prairie Friends planting the prairie plot at the "Growing In Illinois" sculpture out front of the University of Illinois' College of Veterinary Medicine admin bldg + risks of losing urban prairie projects due to loss of ongoing maintenance, advocacy, and education + a brief history of the St. Boniface Church site south of Bondville upon demolition + Heartland Pathways negotiating a road cut by City of Monticello through prairie corridor near local rattlesnake population. Producers: Mike S (2009) & ws (2022).
Nov 13, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20081019 Elevator Wood Staley
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20081019: Dave Monk interviews "delicate demolition" contractor Mike K from Wisconsin Woodchuck grain elevator wood salvage company during dismantling of the Staley wooden grain elevator just west of Champaign IL, including description of the structural design and grain handling in elevators of the era (early 1900s), and the operation of Old Globe Wood Company dismantling a massive elevator in Superior WI near Duluth MN and the emerging market for salvaged elevator lumber. Producers: PMonk & ws.
Nov 6, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 199311 Bud Baker & Pat Miller - Illinois Heritage Association
Rebroadcast of PMonk 199311: (Willis C.) Bud Baker & Patricia Miller on their book "History in Postcards: Champaign, Urbana, and the University of Illinois" + the museum consulting services of the Illinois Heritage Assocation (IHA); + PMonk 19950903: Bud Baker cont'd incl history of Austin's sporting goods/sportswear shop in campustown and downtown Champaign + UIUC historic preservation organizing w/Monk + Douglas County Historical Museum in Tuscola. Producer: ws.
Oct 30, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20001029 White Heath + Bees
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20001029: Fall foliage gradients + White Heath RR wye & Monticello Railway Museum line + Allerton Park tower retired + bees & beekeeping + INHS field guides. Additional commentary re Rattlesnake Master 5K/10K Run for the Prairie then and now. Producer: ws.
Oct 23, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20081012 Elevator anatomy
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20081012: Dave Monk's self-guided tour inside a square wooden grain elevator near Thomasboro, courtesy of the owners, just prior to its slated demolition. Producer: ws. NOTE: Unrelated additional commentary by producer contained factual errors, excised in archive edition. -ws
Oct 16, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 199510 Don Kurtz "South of the Big Four" (pt. 2) w/Bill Goran
Rebroadcast of PMonk 19951022: Don Kurtz discusses writing fiction and living in New Mexico + Bill Goran discusses working with Don in experiential teaching in Urbana in the 1970s leading to writing a trail guide of the Guadalupe Mountains in the Southwest U.S. + his environmental support career at USACE CERL. Additional 2022 commentary by ws: pitching for WEFT, electronics recycling, noted tidying in front of HP Market St. Producer: ws.
Oct 9, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 199510 Don Kurtz on his novel "South of the Big Four" (pt. 1)
Rebroadcast of PMonk 19951029 recorded 19951022: Guest Don Kurtz reads from his novel "South of the Big Four" + discussion of Midwest cultural, agricultural, and ecological setting. Producer: ws.
Oct 2, 2022 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Prairie Monk (Dave Monk)
Talk
With ws
PMonk 20130519 Marilyn's visit + formation skydiving
Rebroadcast of PMonk 20130519: Dave's niece Marilyn discusses process of skydiving in formation + visiting Rantoul area prairies with Dave + some comparisons to Australian political & ecology cultural perspectives. Producers: dw (2013) & ws (2022).