Radio Free Kaslo — with host RG Morse

There's an assumption that everyone in a small town knows what everyone (else) is thinking. Like most assumptions, this one has some serious holes in it. That certainly became evident during last year's controversy surrounding the (ongoing) saga on the fate of Kaslo's South Beach. What do locals really think about their village? What do they appreciate about their home town? What do...

On today's show, host Randy Morse muses on the need for more "compassionate competence" in the world as he walks along the Kootenay Lake beach in Kaslo with his dogs. He tosses in some new year's poetry, a little woodchopping, and an all-Canadian playlist by artists that include Caribou , The Fugitives , Bruce Cockburn , and the one-and-only Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadia...

Lennart becomes a publisher. 

The first show of the new year finds host Randy Morse musing on 2025, and includes a moving essay by Frantisek Strouhal and Chantal Robert , a suggestion that we measure the passage of time all wrong, courtesy of Justin R. Joffe , and some suitably seasonal songs by Loreena McKennitt . Happy 2026!

Here's a look back — waaay back — featuring family matriarch Charlotte Morse, and Sue & Merle Williamson. Recorded on September 13, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.  This recording is especially dedicated to Charlotte's grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces. Listen — and learn!

On today's show, host Randy Morse and pal Harel Challmie wander down to the Kaslo Adventure Store on Christmas Eve, to sing some carols and chat with co-owner Daphne and some patrons. Happy Holidays!

Today's show features a conversation with Hilary Schroeder , director of the Kaslo Library Association's production of A Christmas Carol , a theatrical reading by local spoken-word actors at the venerable Langham Theatre , as well as an inside look at Kaslo Food Hub' s Christmas hamper program, and a performance by Kaslo's Kuimba Choir from the ensemble's recent Songs for...

For 182 years and counting, Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol , has touched the hearts of generations around the world. On Friday, December 19, 7 PM at Kaslo's historic Langham Theatre, the Kaslo & District Public Library's New Library Project is hosting a theatrical reading of Dickens' immortal seasonal story of redemption. Randy Morse , host of Kootenay Co-op Radio&apos...

The holidays are upon us. Here in tiny (but oh-so lovely) Kaslo, we've put the Christmas Market at the Canadian Legion and the Lightup Parade down Front Street behind us.  Next up? On today's show, host Randy Morse reminds listeners that Songs for a Winter's Night , Kaslo's Kuimba Choir's holiday concerts, happen Friday December 12, at 7 PM, and Sunday December 14, at 2 PM...

Lennart discusses dogs and death with Delilah.

There aren't many tiny, isolated mountain villages that can boast of having a vibrant, long-running community choir like Kaslo's Kuimba ! Come and join your friends & neighbours for the annual Kuimba Choir holiday concert — Songs for a Winter's Night — this Friday, December 12th, 7PM at Kaslo's historic St. Andrew's United Church, and/or this Sunday, December 12th, 2PM...

A team of intrepid artists, artisans, and craftspeople, tucked away in the forest in Argenta, British Columbia, are creating astonishing — and very large — wooden sculptures, all of them ultimately destined to go up in flames. Metaphors for the fleeting nature of life? Or simply really cool sh*t? Or perhaps both? You be the judge!

Winter is here. And for those of us who live in Kaslo, British Columbia that means a Kuimba Choir concert must be just around the corner! Radio Free Kaslo host Randy Morse sits down with Kuimba conductor Tamara Sunsong for a conversation that covers Tamara's musical background, and some of the highlights of the choir's upcoming Songs for a Winter's Night performances at Kaslo's...

Lennart muses about what it might be like to be a dog; he muses on what it takes to be a man; he meets alluring English librarian Delilah Freemantle. Enjoy!

On today's show, American Thanksgiving and Chapter Nine of The Man Who Became a Dog are featured. Enjoy!

On today's show, a conversation with Zia Fehrenbach about the upcoming Kootenay Roots Artists Showcase, and Chapter 8 of The Man Who Became a Dog , Enjoy!

A conversation with Zia Fehrenbach , Program Manager at Kaslo's Langham Cultural Centre and organizer of the upcoming Kootenay Roots Emerging Artists Showcase (Saturday, November 22, 7 PM at the Langham Theatre).

On today's show, how to help save a brave and indispensable weekly newspaper, The Valley Voice , and Chapter Seven of the RG Morse novel-in-progress, The Man Who Became a Dog.

On today's show, host Randy Morse muses on the role the arts could play in rural revitalization, and reads Chapter Six of his forthcoming novel, The Man Who Became a Dog.

Perhaps the world would be better off if it went to the dogs.... Lennart Lovecraft Larsson is a round peg in a world of square holes. From his boyhood in first Sweden, then Oregon, through his career as a publisher, first in New York, then Portland, Lennart nurtures his uncanny ability to communicate with canines.  Meanwhile, as America spirals down the MAGA drain, his faith in humanity begins to...

As (the hilarious) Lucas Myers prepares to bring his latest one-man edition of Randy from Creston to Kaslo, BC's venerable Langham Theatre November 7-9, Kootenay Co-op Radio's Randy Morse sits down to chat with Myers about the upcoming show. LUCAS MYERS, in Randy from Creston Friday, Nov. 7 Saturday Nov. 8 Sunday November 9 All shows 7 PM, at the Langham Theatre. Tix available at Sunnysi...

On today's show, Chapter Five from Radio Free Kaslo host Randy Morse 's forthcoming novel, The Man Who Became a Dog . Plus a conversation with the very funny Lucas Myers , who brings the latest version of his wildly popular character, Randy from Creston , to the stage at Kaslo's venerable Langham Theatre , November 7-9.

Remember when there was no internet? Not even TV? Only radio?? The answer, for most of you, is "No. Of course not!" Well, here's a taste of what it was like back in the 1950s. Today's show consists entirely of host RG Morse reading Chapter Four of his novel-in-progress, The Man Who Became a Dog. Get all cozy, curl up in front of your device, and be transported to the slightly s...

" It is always said that however many wonderful and happy years a dog lives, you know that one day — the die he dies — your dog will break your heart. "              — James Herriot Unless one happens to be a billionaire oligarch, the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place. Reactions to an unraveling of civility and common sense vary from joining cult-like reactionary movements,...

On today's episode: the next wave of No Kings protests are slated across the U.S. this weekend, the final instalment of Jim van Horne 's annual live old-time music concerts take place in Kaslo's historic Langham Theatre on Friday October 17th and Sunday the 19th, and Chapter Three of RG Morse 's novel-in-progress, The Man Who Became a Dog . With music by Bob Dylan , Weird Al Ya...