Village Books Presents: The Chuckanut Radio Hour

About Village Books Presents: The Chuckanut Radio Hour

The Chuckanut Radio Hour is a monthly live radio variety show featuring author interviews, performance poetry, a serial radio comedy, and musical performances from Bellingham, Washington. Produced by Village Books in historic Fairhaven and hosted by owners Paul Hanson and Kelly Evert.

Publisher

Village Books

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Aug 2020

Latest episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 85 episodes have a transcript.

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   7 Jul 2026

   Episode 173 - Laurie Frankel, ENORMOUS WINGS (recorded live June, 2026)

   The Chuckanut Radio Hour writers have put together a show that’s sure to entertain and delight… Author Laurie Frankel joins us to talk about her new novel, ENORMOUS WINGS. Interviewer, author Brenda Miller. The Chuckanut Radio Players deal embark on a not so fanciful flight in a new episode of As the Ham Turns… Our resident poet Kevin Murphy gratuitously gyrates his genuine grammar as he performs his original poetry… Our musical guest is songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, ...

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   2 Jul 2026

   Episode 172 - Dane Bahr, THE DEAD RINGER (recorded live April, 2026)

   The Chuckanut Radio Hour has rustled up a show that will keep you in suspense tonight… Author Dane Bahr joins us to talk about his new novel, THE DEAD RINGER. Interviewer, Brian Cope. The Chuckanut Radio Players deal will swap stories in a new episode of As the Ham Turns… Our resident poet Kevin Murphy fabricates fictitious infatuations as he performs his original poetry… Our musical guest is singer, songwriter, and gentleman raconteur Louis Ledford… Hosted by Villa...

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   25 Jun 2026

   Episode 171 - Kim Fu, VALLEY OF VENGEFUL GHOSTS (recorded live March, 2026)

   Author Kim Fu joins us to talk about her new novel, VALLEY OF VENGEFUL GHOSTS. Interviewer, author Jane Wong. The Chuckanut Radio Players deal with an onset of spring fever in new episode of As the Ham Turns… Our resident poet Kevin Murphy exhibits excellent exhortations as he performs his original poetry… Our musical guest is singer, songwriter, and educator Havilah… Hosted by Village Books' Co-Owners, Kelly Evert and Paul Hanson. Rich Donnelly announce...

Inside a recent episode

Episode 138 - Sasha LaPointe, RED PAINT (recorded live April, 2022)

Published 17 Aug 2022 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Buildings climbed up into the sky and more ships came. Kamsha Kohaloish knew that in order to survive, she too would have to change. So when Captain James Johnson asked her to marry him, she said yes. But her survival came with a price. She lost her name. Kamsha Kohaloish became Mrs. Jane Johnson. Thank you for that. It's beautiful. One of the things that I enjoyed about your book was recognizing so many of the places I grew up in Federal Way and you talk about Eastern Tacoma and places in Seattle and the river and it's a gadget and all of these things. The land feels like a very important part of your book, not just in an environmental sense, not in the details, but in each character or each person's relationship to the environment or lack of relationship in a lot of cases. […]

Who has been a guest on Village Books Presents: The Chuckanut Radio Hour

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Renee Erickson
• David Neiwert
• Julie Trimingham
• Jacqueline Winspear
• Elaina Ellis

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

76

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