Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio explore how eminent domain can be a fundamental civil rights issue, why New Haveners past and present eat oysters with such verve, and more.
Filmmaker Lisa Molomot joins host Tom Breen on “Deep Focus” to discuss her 2013 documentary The Hill, about the city’s removal of 94 families from their homes to build John C. Daniels School, and her documentary School’s Out. During the latter half of the show, Breen talks to To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out the station’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, or any podcatcher.
Africa is you! That’s according to Hanan Hameen, who appears on “At The Moment.” She and host Sharon Benzoni discuss her upcoming “Africa Is Me” event at the Stetson branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, her battle with lupus, and view that dance is a form of therapy. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out the station’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, or any podcatcher.
On Alisa Bowens’ “Culture Cocktail,” relationship coach and semi-weekly guest Tonisha Dawson is back to discuss what “spring cleaning” can mean for those unhappy with their relationships. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On “Dateline New Haven,” KellyAnn Day of New Reach, which operates homeless shelters in NewHhaven, talks about how in three months her agency wiped out most of a waiting list for over 100 young women and children seeking shelter. Steve DiLella of the state Department of Housing, which helped provide money for that effort, adds his take on statewide progress in tackling chronic homelessness. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, or any podcatcher.
On a short segment of “Voices from the Campaign Trail,” Paul Bass interviews former presidential hopeful Howard Dean as he stumps for Hillary Clinton in New Haven. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
It’s “This Day in Oyster-Eating History” for hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle. Their quandary of the day: Who says you can only eat oysters in months that contain an “R” in their name? To find the answer, they time travel you back to 1913 to hear the case of New Haven’s oyster industry that a “milky” oyster in “R”-less May or June is still a good oyster and a tasty snack. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out the station’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, or any podcatcher.