Listeners’ Voices

Listeners’ Voices airs at 11am alternate Saturdays* and is repeated Monday evenings at 9pm. The show shares written and recorded responses from listeners (writers and non-writers alike) to the prompt of the week. To get on the Voices email list, to submit a response and/or to get more information, email ktwhwriters@gmail.com or call the station at 218-595-6195.

CURRENT PROMPT(s) for the April 26th show:

We have a double-header this time: We invite stories of potential impacts of existing and proposed changes in federal government funding and practices, whether you support the changes or not. This is not inviting political screeds or rants, we have never wanted to be divisive or polarizing. But we want to humanize the sweeping changes happening in real time with personal stories from you or people you know, whether for better or worse. This is a good time to remind you, you may respond anonymously.

If you would rather “not go there”, you are also invited to share thoughts about or practices around Earth Day, past or present. Earth Day is April 22, before our next show airs, but it’s never too late to give the Earth some thought. Responses to both prompts are encouraged by Thursday April 24th, but as always responses to previous prompts are welcome and you can respond to these later too.

 Send your responses, written or recorded, to ktwhwriters@gmail.com by Thursday, April 24th.  Or, bring them to the station.  (An emailed voice memo works.) We will air your replies anonymously if you prefer! Late responses will be shared on the following show.

 ***Responses to previous prompts are always welcome as well as suggestions for future prompts***

*NOTE: alternate weeks between new episodes now feature archived episodes of Listeners’ Voices

ARCHIVED EPISODES

Episode 46: Hospitality, received or provided April 12, 2025

 

Episode 45: Youthful Mischief, or Things I Never Told my Parents March 29, 2025

A bedroom closet, though not the same one involved in either story of mischief to follow…

 

Episode 44: Privacy/Personal Space/Solitude March 15, 2025

Let’s pack one more in! Korea 1974

 

Episode 43: Coincidences, Serendipity, Synchronicity [plus more Hitchhiking stories!]  March 1, 2025

plus a bonus track, an extra hitchhiking story that didn’t fit into the [very full] show: Moose Jaw to Minot with the Mexicans

 

Episode 42: Hitchhiking [memories from decades past, NOT recommended these days] February 15, 2025

 

Episode 41: Fire! February 1, 2025

Greenwood Fire 9/21

 

Episode 40: Looking Back/Forward  January 18, 2025

Frances and her daughter Seneca, Stewart Lake Dec. 2024

Episode 39: Gratitude, reciprocity and community – January 4, 2025(!)

 

Episode 38: Cars! – December 21, 2024

    

a relative of Leslie’s “Tennis Shoe” Chevette, sans the special paint job. And Bill’s first car – 1948 Plymouth 🙂

 

Fran’s Old Rusty – ’63 Ford, now in retirement; and Bill’s Dad’s 1931 Oldsmobile (with wooden spokes!)

 

Episode 37: Unexpected Generosity – December 7, 2024

L’Chiam/To Life, Richmond’s guitar, a product of an employer-friend’s generosity

 

Episode 36: Trains, and other atypical travel – November 23, 2024

The Three Spot – the first locomotive on the iron range, pioneer of the Drummond Grade

 

Episode 35: Handmade – November 9, 2024

Handmade items from the show

 

Episode 34: Encounters with Wild Animals, October 26, 2024 – everything from mice and wildebeests to moose and beluga whales!

   

A meandering moose, by Emma Linn and a Beluga Whale

 

Episode 33: Season Change, October 12, 2024

Season change along the Superior Hiking Trail, October 9, 2024

 

Episode 32: FUNd Drive Compilation, excerpts from previous episodes, October 5, 2024