WKMS Wired Newsletter January 2, 2007

WKMS proudly presents the 2007 Music From the Front Porch Concert, Saturday, January 20 at Robert E. Johnson Theatre, near the corner of 15th and Olive Streets on Murray State's campus.

This year's event features the acoustic bluegrass rhythms of Kentucky favorites Bawn in the Mash and The McKendree's. Seating begins at 6 p.m. and music begins at 7 p.m. We encourage folks to arrive early for the show as seating is limited!

Tickets are $10 at the door only. We look forward to seeing you there!

WKMS hosts a silent auction prior to the concert at 6 p.m. featuring items ranging from beautiful handmade jewelry to lawn mower engines, donated by area businesses. So before you grab your seat, be sure to drop by. All proceeds benefit and strengthen your public radio station.

A special thanks to our Music From the Front Porch concert sponsors, Woodall Agency of Princeton and Trigg County Insurance Agency of Cadiz.

To learn more about Music From the Front Porch, visit our web site at wkms.org or click here.

PROGRAM SPECIAL
A Scientific Approach

This Friday at noon, WKMS debuts a new five-part science series, Radio Lab.

Hosted and produced by Jad Abumrad, and co-hosted by NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich, Radio Lab is designed for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder, who are curious about the world but also want to be moved and surprised.

This series airs at noon every Friday in January, the first Friday in February. You can also hear the series in its entirety Monday, February 5 through Friday, February 9 at noon.

Friday, January 5 at Noon - Detective Stories
What can 1,000 years worth of trash tell us about ancient human behavior? Radio Lab hears the story of 2,000 year old paper found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in 1896 by two Oxford graduate students, B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. The findings may surprise you!

Friday, January 12 at Noon - Musical Language
What is music? Why does it move us? Why do some of us make music better than others?
Radio Lab examines how the brain processes sound and the line between language and music.

Friday, January 19 at Noon - Morality
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Radio Lab peers inside the brains of people contemplating moral dilemmas, watches chimps at a primate research center sharing blackberries, observes 3 year-olds fighting over toys, and tours the country's first penitentiary.

Friday, January 26 at Noon - Where Am I?
Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. But where are you, really? How does your brain keep track of your body? Radio Lab examines the bond between brain and body and looks at what happens when it breaks.

Friday, February 2 at Noon - Space
In the 60s, space exploration was an American obsession. But the growing reality of space has turned the romance to cynicism. Radio Lab charts the path from then to now.

You can see the entire WKMS schedule at wkms.org.

WKMS Around the Globe

During the December launch of our new internet radio service link live365, the stream reflected 139 hours of WKMS listening time, mostly from Kentuckians, with the remainder scattered nationwide including 10 hours of listening in Missouri, and 8 1/2 hours of
listening in Indiana. To access live365, click here.

WKMS even has listeners abroad, like Anne Faust of Germany who sent the station a lovely Christmas letter complimenting several songs she recently enjoyed from a show produced by Program Director, Mark Welch. Ms. Faust writes, “Merry Christmas to the staff of WKMS and a Happy and Healthy New Year 2007."

Our thanks to Anne Faust and all of our listeners.

Happy listening in 2007!

WKMS thanks the following businesses for becoming underwriters or renewing their underwriting during December 2006. For information about becoming an underwriter on WKMS, e-mail ronda.gibson@murraystate.edu or anne.bidwell@murraystate.edu
or call us at 1-800-599-4737.

We can’t do without you!

A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Paducah	Edward Jones, Murray
Rehab Associates, Paducah	Taylor & Associates, PLLC
Trigg County Insurance Agency, Cadiz	West Kentucky Community & Technical College, Paducah
Woodall Agency, Princeton