Listeners’ Voices

Listeners’ Voices airs at 11am on 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 218-595-6195.

CURRENT PROMPT of the WEEK: 

Influencers: who in your past has been a personal influencer, whether they knew it or not?

 Send your responses to ktwhwriters@gmail.com or bring them to the station, written or recorded by Thursday noon April 25. (An emailed voice memo works.) We will air your replies, anonymously if you prefer, at 11am on Saturday morning April 27 and the following Monday at 9pm.

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

ARCHIVED EPISODES

Episode 11: Smells and the memories and emotions they trigger April 20, 2024

 

Episode 10: Lake Superior April 13, 2024. The last 10 minutes of this episode also includes a field recording from the solar eclipse totality zone made by two KTWH volunteers near Flora, Illinois

Photo by Richmond Scharf

 

Episode 9: My First Job [Part 2]  April 6, 2024

 

Episode 8: My First Job [Part 1]  March 30, 2024

 

Episode 7: Animal Companions (takes all kinds!) [Part 2]  March 23, 2024

More stories – this time including hamsters, turtles, a guinea pig (Fuzzy Butt), goats (including Buttercup), chickens, a sea and a canoe-tripping pet!

 

Episode 6: Animal Companions (takes all kinds!) [Part 1]  March 16, 2024

We heard about Fritz, Bella, Radar, Goku, Toot the Pigologist and many more – looking forward to hearing more next week. Must be some chicken stories out there…?

Radar the Comforter     

Goku the ball python, prefers his rats fresh, not frozen

Sammi had a good life with Martha

Toot helping out at work

 

Episode 5: Businesses lost and/or longed for, past and present, in Two Harbors [Part 2]  March 9, 2024

 

Episode 4: Businesses lost and/or longed for, past and present, in Two Harbors [Part 1]  March 2, 2024

 

Episode 3: What do you consider to be “My song”? February 24, 2024

 

Episode 2: Ep. 1 – Continued – this weird winter weather! – Part 2 February 17, 2024

 

Episode 1: What do you think of this exceptional winter we are experiencing, for better or worse? February 10, 2024

This episode includes a short audio excerpt from the video, The Story of Winter: Minnesota’s Most Iconic Season produced by DNR climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld and photographer Alec Johnson. It is available on YouTube here.