Boise Community Radio hitting the airwaves | Boise, Garden City, Mountain Home | Idaho Statesman
Boise writer Amanda Turner never had any great aspiration to host a radio show. But when a friend suggested it might be a good way to promote local and visiting authors and their work, she thought she’d give it a shot.
Every Thursday since last June, Turner has interviewed authors in the office/studio of Boise Community Radio, on the second floor of the Alaska Building at 1020 Main St. She meets her guests at a nearby coffeehouse first.
“I always warn people. ... It kind of looks like a dorm room,” Turner said of the radio station’s tiny studio, decked out with an old futon and plentiful posters on the walls.
Turner’s show, “The Writers’ Block,” airs online at 1 p.m. Thursdays. Her guests have included faculty from Boise State University and award-winning Boise author Tony Doerr.
“I miss academia. That’s how I live vicariously,” joked Turner, a 34-year-old mother of two who majored in linguistics and Russian at the University of Maryland.
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