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Friday Morning Connections

Connecting People, Issues, and Ideas - 08:30 am to 09:30 am

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Connections:

Joel Edelstein founded the program, as the show's only producer, when the US decided to invade Iraq during the first Gulf war. January 18, 1991 was the program's first airing. Back then it was called War Talk.
War Talk offered a review of developments in the war that week and provided a forum for discussion. In that time of war fever, it was a place where members of the community who opposed the war could gain support from the knowledge that they were not alone. As a community forum in a time of war, Joel decided there would be no guests other than callers. As this was another difficult period in the history of American foreign policy, the telephone lines remained full throughout every broadcast! After the hostilities had ceased, at the end of March, the program's name was changed to Peace Talk.
After one year, Joel invited other producers to join him to create a new show. Connections first aired on February 21, 1992. It's mission: "Connecting People, Issues, and Ideas." Over the years there's been a small but stable "collective" of volunteers who produce the program each Friday morning. Generally we also rotate telephone duties between ourselves but have also been lucky to have regular assistance from folks like Eva Mesmer, Nikki Kayser, and others who have "pitched-in" when needed.
Currently, our collective consists of Joel Edelstein, Duncan Campbell, Kathy Partridge, Liz Lane, Roger J. Wendell and Leilani Rashida Henry. Sadly, early volunteer Paul Klite passed away in June, 2000 but is fondly remembered by not only our Connections collective, but the entire KGNU family as well! Connections has been around a long time and remains a vital and important feature on KGNU - We hope you'll tune in and join us this Friday morning!