(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Larry Stein interviews Karen Allen, back to our Film Festival for the second time. She stars in Year By the Sea and talks about the film along with director Alexander Janko and producer Laura Goodenow.
(First airdate: October 4, 2016) Sheila Ramsey talks with Center Valley Animal Rescue about the plethera of animals they have at the farm and how they are cared for.
This week on the Compass, we take a voyage from Half Moon Bay, CA to the edge of the continental shelf with legendary pelagic birding expedition leader Debi Shearwater, and encounter not only rare birds, but whales — many of them.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Larry Stein and Marcia Perlstein preside over the opening of our PT Film Festival Broadcast. Then Larry talks with Film Festival interviewer, Robert Horton, the film critic for the Seattle Weekly and the Everett Herald. and a frequent contributor to our Film Festival.
(first aired September 28, 2016). Host Nan Evans welcomes to the studio Kristin Wilkinson, NOAA Marine Mammal Stranding Network Coordinator, to talk about what can be learned from marine mammal strandings. Closing music is “Stranded,” performed by Van Morrison.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Larry Stein speaks with Johnnie Jameson, the subject of the short film Mile 19. Johnnie is a long-time letter carrier in Los Angeles, and a Vietnam Veteran. He has run every Los Angeles Marathon since the first race, more than 30 years. He talks about the importance of the Marathon in his life, and the healing and calm it has brought him. Director Vincent DeLuca gets his mail delivered by Johnnie, and learned of his story.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Cris Wilson interviews Phil Volker, subject of Phil’s Camino, and Annie O’Neil, director of the film. Phil Volker used walking as part of his treatment for cancer and set up a course referring to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, but at his property on Vashon Island.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Marcia Perlstein interviews Brian and Amy Storkel, producers of The Dean Scream, which analyzes the fateful “scream” of excitement by candidate Howard Dean in his presidential bid. News footage of that event effectively doomed his campaign.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Marcia Perlstein talks with Sheila Canavan, director of Compared to What: The Improbably Journey of Barney Frank. The film follows long-term congressman Barney Frank, in the year he retired from his seat in Congress.
(first aired September 20, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Sammamish, Washington writer Michael Dylan Welch via telephone, and discusses his career writing poetry, publishing anthologies of poems and translating poetry from Japanese.
