Wordy BirdsWordy Birds

Liz Humes | Friday Noon – 12:30pm

Books are wonderful and deeply rewarding but the truth is most people don’t read -very often. They’re also expensive and time consuming. Wordy Birds is a program about books and ideas that airs every Friday at noon on WRIR. Host Liz Humes has read a book a week since February 2005, when the first version of Wordy Birds debuted on WRIR 97.3 FM.

The program brings to the airwaves both local and international best-selling authors. The only limitation in topics covered is that the interviews are done face to face. It’s not high-brow book radio, it’s a book show for people who don’t read, hosted by someone that does. In turn you get researched informed conversations that are informed, engaging and sometimes funny.    

An archive of Wordy Birds can be found on www.wordybirds.org. Publicists and authors interested in interviews can email Liz at liz(dot).(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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Open SourceOpen Source

Will Snyder

I’m Will Snyder, a Church Hill resident and Wall Street Journal writer. I’m hosting a new public radio show called “Open Source.” It’s a one-hour call-in show where we’ll have the Richmond region’s top newsmakers and analysts in the studio every Friday. Each show is divided into two 30 minute segments covering two of the major stories for the week. I picked the name “Open Source” because I want your input, too, via calls, emails and Twitter.

Open Source will be on the air every Friday from 10-11am on 97.3 FM and streaming online at wrir.org. We’ll have podcasts of each week’s show available in the early afternoon.
We can take your questions in three ways:

1. On Twitter by sending them to @rvaopensource
2. Via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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