Programs A-Z

The origins of Afterglow are rather misty now, but dogged detective work based entirely on an offhand reply from creator Dick Bishop leads us to believe that the program debuted on WFIU sometime in the late 1970s
Dick took the...

A Saturday afternoon of jazz classics from 2-5 with a mix of new jazz releases.  Doug lets you hear everything from Miles and Cannonball to brand new releases by celebrated and new artists. Keep track of what's new, grounded in the knowledge of...

These weekly Saturday operas are rebroadcasts of some of the nations best.

American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and...

WBNI's Janice Furtner and Dick Ver Wiebe survey more than 100 years of recorded opera.

Culminated from countless hours spent in musty basements, dark garages, record store bins and the occasional cross country jaunt, Black Light Radio focuses on the greatest and most obscure Psychedelic, Progressive and Avant Garde Jazz titles of...

The Blue Plate Special is a weekly one-hour long program recorded and produced in Fort Wayne, IN. Hosted by Dylan McElhoe and Jack Ankenbruck, The Blue Plate Special focuses primarily on blues music and its influence on history, culture, and...

Hailed as the number one US Orchestra in the world by the venerable British publication Gramophone, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues this quarter with more concerts from Symphony Center, the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Classical music from our vault, hosted by Doug Gruber.

There are those festivals that take place in the cities where the composers were born or worked and thus stake a special claim to authenticity: the Handel Festival in Halle, the Bach Festival in Leipzig and of course the Beethoven Festival in...