Episodios

  • Sandhills Secrets, Sandoz story, Scott Kirby and more…

    Sandhills Secrets, Sandoz story, Scott Kirby and more…
    Apr 3 2026
    On the April 3 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Mill in Lincoln's historic Haymarket. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Author Alan Bartels, discussing his new book featuring stories about the Sandhills in Nebraska (0:30); Carrie Brown and Karim Muasher, co-artistic directors for the world premiere of Capital City at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts (11:06); Morrie Enders, executive director of the Lincoln Community Playhouse(23:29); Scott Kirby, sharing his traveling Main Street Souvenirs show coming to Red Cloud (46:12). The episode will also feature more poetry by Nathan Ertzner (33:03) and a movie review of Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It by Kwakiutl Dreher (40:52).
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    57 m
  • Extra: Beatrice Community Players' "The Cottage" and Mei Semones

    Extra: Beatrice Community Players' "The Cottage" and Mei Semones
    Apr 2 2026
    This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with musician Mei Semones about her musical process and her upcoming show at the Waiting Room in Omaha. We also visit with Tyler Rinne, managing artistic director of the Beatrice Community Players, about the upcoming production of The Cottage, a show that follows a couple whose secret affair quickly unravels when their spouses unexpectedly arrive, setting off a chain of revelations.
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    15 m
  • Diane Bartels, International Quilt Museum, Ed Love and more...

    Diane Bartels, International Quilt Museum, Ed Love and more...
    Mar 27 2026
    On the March 27 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studios. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Diane Bartels, a pilot and author, about a talk she is giving in Hastings about Nebraska's Aviatrix, Evelyn Sharpe (1:33); Zak Foster and Roderick Kiracofe, about creating and collecting quilts (9:20); and Ed Love, about the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra's upcoming concert that celebrates 50 years of Big Band Jazz music (20:05). We will also feature poetry by Nathan Ertzner (27:30) and a movie review of Natchez by Kwakiutl Dreher (33:11).
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    40 m
  • Extra: Mother Courage and Her Children and Otoe-Missouria panel

    Extra: Mother Courage and Her Children and Otoe-Missouria panel
    Mar 26 2026
    This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with director of the Center for Great Plains Studies Margaret Jacobs, as well as Cory DeRoin, a member of the Otoe-Missouria tribe, about an upcoming Otoe-Missouria History, Activism and Representation panel discussion. We are also talking to Wayne State College communication arts professor Rusty Ruth about their upcoming theatre production of "Mother Courage and Her Children," a play that examines the cruelty of capitalism when placed above human needs.
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    20 m
  • Darrell Scott, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and more...

    Darrell Scott, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and more...
    Mar 20 2026
    On the March 20 episode of Friday LIVE, we're back in the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: country artist Darrell Scott (1:39); Chad M. Olson about an exhibition he is presenting at Lincoln's Kiechel Fine Art (12:41); the Arbor Lodge Mansion Coordinator, Laura Steinman, about its month-long quilt exhibition (27:54); children's book author and scientist Alison Pearce Stevens about her newest book and her life story (37:54); and violinist for the Philadelphia Orchestra Eliot Heaton (45:59). We will also feature more poetry from Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers (23:33).
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    56 m
  • Extra: Jim McKee and Ed Zimmer

    Extra: Jim McKee and Ed Zimmer
    Mar 19 2026
    This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with two Lincolnites who know their local history. Jim McKee and Ed Zimmer are helping put on a speaker series through St. Paul United Methodist Church that explores the history of Nebraska's Capital City.
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    13 m
  • Coro di Flauti, Peter Wilson, Jennifer Kloetzel, Renga and more…

    Coro di Flauti, Peter Wilson, Jennifer Kloetzel, Renga and more…
    Mar 13 2026
    On the March 13 episode of Friday LIVE, we are at the Mill Coffee and Tea in Lincoln's Haymarket with live music! Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Lincoln's flute choir, Coro di Flauti, who will play a few songs for us (1:33); Wakefield's The Little Red Hen Theatre managing director, Adam Goos, about its production of Marjorie Prime (20:18); Karen Shoemaker, about an upcoming workshop that focuses on the classical Japanese form of poetry called Renga (26:46); Nebraska Public Media's Director of Education, Jessica Mitchel-McCullough, about the upcoming Be My Neighbor Day (32:05); and The BrickHouse Duo, who will be bringing their violin and cello to play a few tunes (38:24 and 54:08) It will also feature more poetry from Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers (49:56).
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Extra: Abendmusik and the Nu-Blu Band

    Extra: Abendmusik and the Nu-Blu Band
    Mar 12 2026
    This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, the Nu-Blu band is bringing progressive bluegrass to the Golden Husk in Ord, while Abendmusik director Tom Trenney is talking about what is like bringing one of the most monumental works in the choral repertoire, Bach’s Mass in B minor, to the stage.
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    19 m