Greetings--I started out with music by Gabriel Yared/sdtrk to Betty Blue, accompanied by my reading of a poem, "Change," by Kathleen Jesse Raine. Then Courtney Barnett/If I Don't Hear From You Tonight, Aimee Mann/You Fall, Radiohead/Follow Me Around, The Moth and the Flame/Young and Unafraid, Carl Sagan/Symphony of Science/A Glorious Dawn, ANNOUNCE, Parra for Cuva/Your Inner Workings, Patti Smith/Walkin Blind, FaceSoul/Grow, Cautious Clay/Wildfire, Cocteau Twins/A Kissed Out Red Floatboat, Christian Loffler feat. Mohna/Haul, Alaskan Tapes & The Last Dinosaur/Under the Viaduct, Joni Mitchell/Jericho, Jynweythek, ANNOUNCE, Milky Chance/Doing Good, Clinic/I Can't Stand the Rain, Adani & Wolf Feat. Neobe/Onto the Light, Simi/Woman, Mustafa/Air Forces, Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry/7 Seconds (NOVO remix), West Indian Girl/What Are You Afraid Of, ANNOUNCE, Midnight Oil/The Dead Heart, Azure Ray/Nightswimming, Thomas D feat. Franka Potente/Run Lola Run sdtrk, Wye Oak/It Was Not Natural, Future Islands/We Don't Need Another Hero, ANNOUNCE, Syna So Pro/To Worry Isn't Love Doll

     As we settle into our brand new studios in downtown Bridgeport, I want to send special love and thanks to everyone who began early with WPKN, and volunteered for decades. Special note to long-time unofficial Operations Director and sole Technician for quite a while Ray Terlaga, who built and wired the studio we are leaving, and to the late Sid Grinder before him. I grew up in that studio. Many did. There may have been dust and old carpets and ratty couches, but there are wonderful and complex memories for many of us. I learned harshly from the Covid epidemic that I was "aging," but this change, first move in 58 years for the station, really drives it home. We can be extremely hopeful and optimistic for WPKN's future under the newer leadership. The incredible hours of hard work by all those involved in the construction, packing, and move, is inspiring. 

     WPKN was one of the forerunners of non-commercial, alternative progressive radio. We treasure the few remaining other stations around. We humbly accept our new moniker a la David Owen of The New Yorker: "WPKN is the greatest radio station in the world." We are also part of a MOVEMENT. Alternatives to mainstream music, thinking, politics, etc., enable us to breathe and hope. 

      FORWARD IN ALL DIRECTIONS! THANKS TO ALL LISTENERS AND SUPPORTERS!!!!!

      I'm back December 2 with A Miniature World, 10 am to 12 noon.   binniek(at)comcast.net