The Gary Henderson Show

Schedule
88.5-2
Monday
12:00 pm
Tuesday
2:00 am
Saturday
8:00 am

Gary Henderson, 1999 IBMA Broadcast Personality of the Year and co-founder of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, has been involved in bluegrass programming at WAMU 88.5 since 1967. Gary has recorded shows for WAMU’s Bluegrass Country from its inception and beginning 9/22/07 on alternate Saturdays you can hear Gary LIVE in the studio taking your e-mail and phone requests. Studio phone requests: 202.885.8860.

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Arts & Culture

WAMU 88.5

Art Beat With Lauren Landau, October 7

You can explore one calligrapher's modern take on Korean handwriting, or see two shows that require a little help from the audience.

Food

NPR

Fairfax Schools Pull All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

No End In Sight: Shutdown Showdown Enters Week Two

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will go back to work on Monday, but many government operations remain suspended.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.