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Wake-Up Call: The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations

Jaime Kurtz, PhD

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Sean McCord talks with local author Jaime Kurtz about her latest book The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations.

Jaime Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at James Madison University, where she focuses her research and courses on the science of happiness and savoring. Her passion for research and travel — Jaime has been to 29 countries — inspired her to write a practical, research-driven advice on how to travel well.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: The Haus of Belle and Victory Hall Opera’s Drugsong

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts David Vaugh Straughn and Leslie M. Scott-Jones welcome Miss Dreama Belle, drag artist from the Haus of Belle, and they talk about the artistry of drag and how performing as a character can be a presentation of yourself that you don’t get anywhere else.

After that, Victory Hall Opera company returns! Miriam Gordon-Stewart visits with tenor Corey Bix to talk about Victory Hall’s latest piece of opera experimentation — it’s a play based on a novella by Thomas Mann that uses music from Wagner’s opera Tristan & Isolde. Drugsong. Is it an opera within a play? Is it a play surrounding an opera? What’s it like for trained, professional opera singers to work like stage actors?

We open two more windows into the worlds of two more artistic groups on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 AM to 11 AM.

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Apropos Of Something: Talk Isn’t Cheap; Student-Driven, Student-Infused Volunteerism

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Freddy Jackson, founder of The Love No Ego Group, on how to put your heart into a conversation and take your ego out; and Faran Saeed, a senior director at Madison House, on the power of student-driven, student-infused volunteerism in their community.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Wake-Up Call: Books and Summer Reading at JMRL

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Meredith Dickens, Collection Manager, Jefferson Madison Regional Library and Lindsay Ideson, Northside Library branch manager about their summer reading list. Also, the library as a community center.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Blokes on the Bench

Blokes on the Bench host Andy Richardson and the blokes talk about the world of soccer. This week: Chelsea are League Champions, but with a lot of high scoring games this Championship / survival Sunday the 16/17 Premier league season went out on a high, but who will get top four? We’ll be back Sunday August 6th for a special show, and Sunday August 13th for the 17/18 season kick off.

Have a great summer!

The blokes are Andy Richardson, Ryan Gregg, Mark Coffman, Jeremy Lamm and Alex Gomaa.

Blokes on a Bench is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m. The station is looking for volunteers.

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Wake-Up Call: Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Bri Warner from The Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau about the many attractions that make Charlottesville a destination for tourists from around the world.

The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Home Grown: Before the Flood Offered by LEAP & Local Comic Books (Slate & Ashe) by Ethan Murphy with Susan Holland

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts David Vaugh Straughn and Leslie M. Scott-Jones talk about energy efficiency and Leonardo DiCaprio’s sufficiency (with bears) as Kellie Hocking from the Local Energy Alliance Program visits the show in anticipation of LEAP’s free screening of National Geographic’s climate change documentary, Before the Flood. Also it’s the ins and outs of local comic writer Ethan Murphy’s and comic editor Susan Holland’s Slate & Ashe. Spoilers! It’s all about the doorknobs! Ethan and Susan also talk about their upcoming book, Screen Boy and about representation in comics. It’s a show about a man named Robinson … and he “caroosed!”

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 AM to 11 AM.


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Apropos Of Something: Foster Parent Advocacy; Art Empowers All

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Jason Showalter and Ryan Hathaway, who, having completed the process to become foster parents, are now outspoken advocates; and Chicho Lorenzo, ebullient artist and educator, who leaves his mark on his city of Charlottesville in vibrant color, to match his smile.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Oak Grove Theatre, Death of a Salesman, and Devon Sproule

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts David Vaughn Straughn and Clinton Johnston talk to Morgan Smith and Jenny Howard about Oak Grove’s unique model of outdoor theater. Then David and Devon Sproule reconnect after having been in the same high school choir. (Whoa!) Finally director and assistant director Bill Rough and Kelley de Villa thrown down some serious drama talk about one America’s great playwrights — Arthur Miller. Two shots at theater with a touch of great music on this Sunday’s Home Grown.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10am to 11.

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To Your Health: Community Based Agriculture

To Your Health host M.C. Blair Talks with Alice Radley about the benefits of community based agriculture and also Mike Clark of Planet Earth Diversified on the same subject.

Each week To Your Health host M.C. Blair talks to local growers and food producers. Join him on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville every Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon.