Pieta Brown will be phoning in to talk with James Moore at 2:15pm about her upcoming show at Cafe Paradiso (next weekend Friday May 23rd), accompanied by Lucinda Williams' guitarist and bandleader producer/guitarist Bo Ramsey. She'll be performing in New York City this Saturday night at the Bowery Ballroom.

Pieta is an artist who brings together the unvarnished humility of Loretta Lynn, the frank, modern rock punch of P.J. Harvey, the country sass and poetry of Neko Case, the urbane sophistication of Norah Jones or Rickie Lee Jones, and the soulful Southern grit of Bobbie Gentry, and - coloring it all - a deep abiding saturation in folk and blues that’s beyond her years.

BBC filmmaker Stuart Tanner will join James in the studio during the 3pm hour. Stuart has been working in Iraq doing reconciliation work. A prolific and riveting documentary filmmaker, he has made films in Palestine, Iraq, China, Ghana, and the Amazon rainforest. He is a regular KRUU correspondent often phoning in from his home in Oxford, England. His insights and grasp of world events are formidable.  read more »

This Friday on Planet Erstwild at 3pm, James Moore interviews Professor Norman Finkelstein about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor Finkelstein has written several books on the subject including The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah.

His scholarly research has been praised by Noam Chomsky, among others. Though his tenure was denied at DePaul University last year after an organized effort to discredit his work by detractors, which the school says played no part in its decision, he retired and in a settlement the university officially declared him a great scholar and good teacher. He recently spoke at Grinnell University.

At 4pm, Steve Cooperman joins James to talk about the upcoming May Artwalk and interview Junkyard Jonny of Junkyard Symphony and other performing artists.  read more »