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00:00: Sam Ferrante, opening. 02:28 - "Object Permanence" by Nicole Sealey, read by Sam Ferrante 03:35 - Korie Griggs 09:23 - Skylar Dingledy 13:42 - Katie Hilton 18:05 - Aaron Thomas 22:47 - Bek Primrose 28:10 - WQRT Acknowledgment, Sam Ferrante 28:18 - Cayden Crouch 34:05 - Logan Taylor 39:28 - Butler MFA and Indy Reads acknowledgment, Sam Ferrante 39:55 - Shepherd 44:35 - Rob Stapleton 50:05 -...

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview Pauline Moffat on the origins of IndyFringe and The District Theatre. The scene provides ongoing opportunity for emerging playwrights and actors on a repurposed block of Mass Ave in Indianapolis. 

Radio Free Book Club starts the new year the same way it started last year: talking about the latest winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. This time, it’s David Szalay’s novel  Flesh.  Robin Beery, Sarah Layden, and Matt Gonzales join Ken Honeywell for the discussion.

Aurora PhotoCenter Director Mary Goodwin in conversation with 2025 Aurora Project Resident Cali M. Banks (Munsee Lenape/Scottish), who uses her artistic practice to reclaim identity through auto-ethnographic, experimental photography and filmmaking. Her work explores personal and collective histories, relational intimacies, and the expansion of narrow, flattened definitions of indigenous art.

Readers will find a whole lot of characters riding  The Paris Express,  Emma Donaghue’s latest historical novel. How much fun is it to ride with them? Barb Shoup, Laurel Judkins, Kate Shoup, and Ken Honeywell have opinions on the December 2025 edition of Radio Free Book Club.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview Big Car Collaborative’s Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh. Hear how the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is emerging as a cultural campus in the Garfield Park neighborhood—the culmination of Big Car’s 10-year vision.

Real Life, Revised - A reading series of "stories, poems & other truths" featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT Radio, part of the Garfield Park Creative Community from Big Car Collaborative. This show was recorded Dec. 14, 2025. Our next live event, featuri...

    Real Life, Revised - A reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT Radio, part of the Garfield Park Creative Community from Big Car Collaborative.     This show was recorded Nov. 9, 2025. The final episode in ou...

Hear a discussion between Kimi Katada, curator at Kansas City’s Charlotte Street, and artist Amy Kligman as they discuss Amy’s exhibition ‘Shrines of the Luminous Halo’.

FLICK FIX | BUGONIA | with Anne Laker & Tracy Ball Five-time Flick Fix guest and queen of rabbit holes Tracy Ball eats up the full-throttle sci-fi absurdity of Stone and Plemons in BUGONIA (2025, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos), while Anne reflects on the film’s politics. Discussed: Christian Louboutin shoes, self-delusion, KILL BILL, Noxema, crafting, and AIR FORCE ONE. Tracy rewinds to the golden age...

Radio Free Book Club - A university researcher in a dystopian 2119 searches for a famous poem that was read only once and disappeared without a trace. That’s the intriguing subject of Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know— which is the subject of the November 2025 meeting of Radio Free Book Club. Steve Woods, Christine Hudson, and Craig Von Deylen join Ken Honeywell for the discussion.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview authors and photographers, Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin. Their new book, “What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen,” expands the narrative of modern architecture and its legacy in the American Midwest.

Real Life, Revised - A reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT. This show was recorded Oct. 26, 2025. Other shows in the "Real Life" series, which include featured readers and open mic slots, are scheduled for N...

Vladimir Nabokov’s  Lolita  has been described as a moral fable, a moral outrage, a censor’s temptation, a formal maze, a parody, an exposé of male desire, a resplendent romance, a catalog of sexual abuse, a redemption tale, and a black comedy. How do you deal with all that? Ken Honeywell asked writers Susan Neville, Dan Barden, Anne Laker to give it a try on this month’s meeting of Radio Free Boo...

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk to Scott Travis, vice president of development for Simon Property Group, They discuss the 50-year evolution of retail design and development, from urban/suburban to total live-work-play destinations.

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST | guest: Jarrod Dortch | air date 9/13/25 | FLICK FIX | WQRTDr. Dortch offers some tough love for both Spike and Denzel in a wide-ranging confab with Anne re: HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (2025, dir. Spike Lee) — an action-packed moral quagmire of class, money, and murky redemption. Jarrod’s *YOU'VE NEVER SEEN* pick is HIGH AND LOW (1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa), Spike Lee’s springboard for his...

On this month’s episode, Ken Honeywell reunites the team of Radio Free Book Club members Robin Beery, Jen Bingham, and Alex Mattingly to deal with the many bad decisions made by the cast of Jess Walter’s latest novel,  So Far Gone.  Have you read it? Join us for the discussion.

Indianapolis-based visual artist Jamila Martin discusses her ongoing photographic project, Caregiver’s Journey, and the 2025 Aurora Workspace Residency with Mary Goodwin, Director at Aurora PhotoCenter. Caregiver’s Journey documents the lives of those who care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Jamila Marin has a BFA in Photography, with additional studies in Psychology a...

In this episode of Create Hear, Big Car Collaborative Co-founder & Director of Programs & Exhibitions Shauta Marsh speak with guest curator Yashi Davalos about her practice and curating her upcoming exhibit SOMA at Tube Factory artspace.

Flick Fix: SORRY, BABY   Artists Megan Hart and Rachel Leigh huddle with Anne to dish on the dark corners, goofy laughs, and flat wit of SORRY, BABY (2025, dir. Eva Victor), a no-filter, post-#MeToo story of will, irony, and healing on one’s own terms in a world of friends, strangers, and stray cats. And also a mouse.  

Lens-based artist Shawn Bush speaks with Mary Goodwin from Aurora PhotoCenter about his series  Land, Sea & Air , his August 2025 Aurora + Herron Residency in Indianapolis, publishing photobooks, and being an artist/educator/father.  Land, Sea & Air  uses layering and collage techniques to explore how corporations and governments use visual media to shape public opinion and policy regardin...

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk to Bill Brooks, editor and publisher of the downtown Indianapolis newsletter, Urban Times. “The lowdown on Indy’s historic neighborhoods” is now in its 31st year. They discuss urban sociology and the evolution of downtown Indy through the lens of a newsman.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer talk with Emily Krueger, President and CEO of 16 Tech Innovation District, about what it takes to lay the groundwork for Indianapolis’ future economy.

On this month’s edition of Radio Free Book Club, we take off for the seedier side of Denver to meet up with Patrick Hoffman’s  Friends Helping Friends. Speaking of which: Friends Alex Mattingly, Jen Bingham, and Robin Beery join Ken Honeywell at the scene of the crime.

Imagine an alternate America in which our government decides to round up citizens of Vietnamese decent and put them in concentration camps. That’s what happens in Kevin Nguyen’s novel   My Documents, which is the subject of this month’s meeting of Radio Free Book Club hosted by Ken Honeywell and featuring club members Steve Woods, Christine Hudson, and Tim Taylor.