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Wednesday Programs:
6-7am French Toast
Hosted by: Brian Thompson
Bonjour, Boston! Start your morning with music from the French-speaking world (mostly in French), presented in both English and French. World music with a French accent, as it were.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 6:00 am  
Wed Dec 11 6:00 am  
7-8am Morning Wood
Hosted by: Tim Reardon
Take a stroll through a forest of distorted guitars -- the Morning Wood.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 7:00 am Playlist
Wed Dec 11 7:00 am Playlist
8-10am Breakfast of Champions
Hosted by: Rebecca, Jeremy, Ted, Becca, Abby, Erik, and Jon
Start your morning off right with a bowl full of sugary sweet pop goodness, sprinkle on some tasty punk influences, and help yourself to the buffet of sumptuous soundscapes, melancholy melodies, quirky cadences and raucous rock.

Twitter Feed: @bocwmbr
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 8:00 am Playlist
Wed Dec 11 8:00 am Playlist
10am-Noon Late Risers' Club
Hosted by: Joanie, Mark, Mook, Nick, Tapedeck Tommy, and the Tuesday Alumni
It's like sewing your ear to a vacuum cleaner.

Twitter Feed: @laterisersclub
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 10:00 am Playlist
Wed Dec 11 10:00 am Playlist
Noon-2pm Lost and Found
Hosted by: Lawrence Azrin, Bob Dubrow, Brother Wayne, Mark Francis, Alex McNeil, Rick Roth, Christopher Vyce
Rock, pop, and soul from the ’60s and early ’70s, but not the same old songs you hear every day on commercial radio.

Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 12:00 pm  
Wed Dec 11 12:00 pm  
2-4pm Space Is Deep
Hosted by: Sue, Lisa
What does space sound like?  Are supernovas psychedelic?  Are pulsars electronic?  Are nebulas ambient? Star Pilots Sue and Lisa will help you find the answers.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 2:00 pm Playlist
4-5:30pm In the Margin of the Other
Hosted by: Sue (sMs)
A singer, the song they sing, “come here where your ears cannot hear.” The beauty of the sky, perhaps someone to love. Cry out, troubles they flow.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 4:00 pm Playlist
Wed Dec 11 4:00 pm Playlist
5:30-6pm WMBR Nightly News
Hosted by: WMBR News Department
News and analysis from independent national journalists as well as local news and events in Cambridge and Greater Boston. Our weekly line-up of programs focuses on under-reported issues, marginalized communities, and struggles for social change.

Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 5:30 pm  
Wed Dec 11 5:30 pm  
6-7pm Tender Hooligans
Hosted by: Mercado
Motherly Motherf@#!3r$. We're kind, not nice. 80's College Rock.
Upcoming shows:
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 6:00 pm Playlist
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Sublimation Station
Hosted by: Alex Simoes
Transport your mind on a journey of global hypnotic rhythms. From pulsing krautrock to Brazilian psychedelia and West African rhythms we'll weave a tapestry of driving music to transcend borders. Tune in, drift away and let the music take control.
Upcoming shows: Dec 25, Jan 8
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 11 6:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm Lentil and Stone
Hosted by: Valentina Chamorro
Where is home? Is it in a lentil? A stone? A poem? Tune into Lentil and Stone Wednesdays at 7PM and find out!
Upcoming shows:
none available
7-8pm
Alternates Weekly
What's Your Weird?
Hosted by: punkyzebra + nikiminasha
what's your weird? jam out to what's spinnin' at MIT. Live DJs? Improvised rap? Habibi Funk? Afro Pop? Disco? Grunge? Reggaeton? Tune in to find out...
Upcoming shows: Dec 25, Jan 8
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 11 7:00 pm Playlist
8-9pm Vibe Killers
Hosted by: Amanda Miyares & Tessa Uviedo
Are we vibe killers or do we just have a killer vibe? Come hang out and let us know! Tune in for lots of indie and bedroom pop, with some alternative rock and R&B sprinkled in there as a treat.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 8:00 pm Playlist
Wed Dec 11 8:00 pm Playlist
9-10pm
Alternates Weekly
Music by Dead People
Hosted by: Brian Sennett
Classical music, old and new, to calm, uplift, and inspire. After 14 years, this is our last season!
Upcoming shows: Jan 1, Jan 15
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 9:00 pm Playlist
9-10pm
Alternates Weekly
Let's Talk About Sax
Hosted by: Jeffrey Robinson
Listen to some of the songs from the podcast "Let's Talk About Sax." Here are the songs that the guest on the podcast loved and made the cut this month for the WMBR 88.1 show.
Upcoming shows: Dec 25, Jan 8
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 11 9:00 pm Playlist
10-11pm The Froot Loops
Hosted by: Mateo and Temkin
Chill vibes. Chill people. Tune in for a mix of everything!

Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 10:00 pm Playlist
Wed Dec 11 10:00 pm Playlist
11pm-Midnight Beyond the Beats
Hosted by: Ishaq Balogun
A modern rap experience with chill vibes featuring big names like Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole, and Anderson .Paak as well as exploring a plethora of other artists of similar genres.
Listen to past shows: Wed Dec 18 11:00 pm  
Wed Dec 11 11:00 pm  
Midnight-1am what just happened
Hosted by: Sam Natarajan
The show name is exactly what you'll be thinking after you listen to whatever I decide has been the soundtrack to my week of suffering— *ahem* I mean psets— featuring indie, pop-rock, punk, electronic, and much more!
Listen to past shows: Thu Dec 19 12:00 am Playlist
Thu Dec 12 12:00 am Playlist
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