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live national broadcast of Whad’Ya Know? in Roanoke on Saturday,
June 18 will feature guests Roddy Moore, director of the Blue Ridge
Institute, Ralph Berrier of The Roanoke Times, A. Roger Ekirch, Virginia
Tech history professor and author of “At Days Close: Night in Times
Past;” with music by the Dry Hill Draggers from Ferrum, Va.
Whad’Ya Know?, the popular public
radio comedy/quiz show, hosted by Michael Feldman, is celebrating its
20th anniversary with a bus tour dubbed Michaelpalooza. The first stop
on the tour is the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre. Subsequent stops
include Harrisburg, Pa. on Wednesday, June 22 and Trenton, N.J. on Saturday,
June 25. In addition, the tour will be making stops at five listener
households along the way, including one in Roanoke.
Fans will be updated on tour progress
with regular installments on the Whad’Ya Know? website at www.notmuch.com.
Tickets for the Roanoke show, which begins
at 11 a.m., are still available through the Roanoke Civic Center Box
Office, by calling 1-888-397-3100 or at www.tickets.com.
Whad’Ya Know? airs each Saturday
on WVTF and is distributed to more than 300 stations each week by Public
Radio International (PRI) with an audience of approximately 1.4 million
listeners. The Whad’Ya Know? show was last in Roanoke in April
1994.
WVTF Public Radio is a National Public
Radio (NPR) member station and PRI affiliate broadcasting locally-produced
and national news and information, public affairs, classical and jazz
music, and entertainment programs, 24 hours a day on 89.1 (WVTF) in
Roanoke, 88.5 and 89.3 (WVTW and WVTU) in Charlottesville, 91.9 (WVTR)
in Marion, and 90.5 (WISE-FM) in Wise, and on the World Wide Web at
www.wvtf.org.
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