Youth Expression Showcase

Our weekly radio program invites students in Grades K-12 to perform live on the air. Hear young musicians, singer/songwriters, photographers, writers, poets and other people who express themselves through the arts.

Oral History

SLB Radio’s Oral History Program connects teens with adult role models in their communities. Click here to listen.

Callers

Since 1978, The Saturday Light Brigade has broadcast LIVE spontaneous on-air phone calls from kids and adults as part of its Saturday morning radio program. Now you can hear some of the most memorable calls from people participating in on-air games and other participatory features or simply calling to tell us about something exciting.

Performance

Join us as we celebrate the original talent in our midst with these weekly archives of in-studio performances by regional and national musicians and artists. Folk, bluegrass, jazz, singer/songwriter, international, storytellers and more!

Interviews

Audio replays from the hundreds of arts, human services and other non-profit organizations interviewed by SLB each year.

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Pittsburgh King 2016: Audio Message Exchange – Episode #2

May 10, 2016 – 2:04 pm
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Students at both Pittsburgh King and Clairton Middle School continued to send each other audio messages these past two weeks, asking about their school cafeteria food, school basketball teams, and what is the best place in their neighborhood?

Pittsburgh King 2016: Blackman V Dr. Truth – Dawn of the Odd Squad

April 26, 2016 – 10:36 am
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Middle schoolers at Pittsburgh King revisited the radio studio, this time writing character biographies for their very own super hero alter-egos (names, powers, weaknesses). The students then told the story of their dramatic origins, as well as that of their arch-villain’s!

Pittsburgh King 2016: The Maltese Falcon

March 29, 2016 – 11:34 am
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Middle school students from Pittsburgh King returned to the Saturday Light Brigade radio studio to record the hair-raising opening from the film noir classic, “The Maltese Falcon.”

Pittsburgh King 2016: Studio Visit

March 15, 2016 – 6:00 pm
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Students from Pittsburgh King Radio Club visit the SLB studio and talk about their favorite cartoon shows and movies.

Pittsburgh King 2016: The Nathan & Rydell Show! – Football

March 8, 2016 – 11:37 am
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Tune in to the inaugural episode of the Nathan & Rydell Show! They’re two 8th graders at Pittsburgh King with a tremendous passion for all things sport. On this week’s show they discuss some of the best players from this past football season, predict next season’s AFC/NFC Champions, and breakdown Peyton Manning’s retirement and his place in NFL history.

Pittsburgh King 2016: Radio Plays 101 – Escape! “The Abominable Snowman” Episode #1

February 23, 2016 – 12:15 pm
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Students at Pittsburgh King performed the first third of an “Escape!” radio drama, “The Abominable Snowman!”

Pittsburgh King 2016: “Three Things About Me”

February 2, 2016 – 1:52 pm
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For our first day of After School with Radio Club, we learned a bit about each other by sharing Three Things about ourselves.

Pittsburgh King After School 2015-16: My Neighborhood

December 1, 2015 – 11:34 am
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After School Radio Club students at Pittsburgh King participated in a round table discussion about their neighborhoods–what they about them liked, what they didn’t like, and what they would change.

Pittsburgh King After School 2015-16: “What’s Important to Me”

November 10, 2015 – 2:22 pm
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Students at Pittsburgh King were given a variety of writing prompts ranging from: “What would you change if you were president?” to “What is an important issue in your life?” After writing, they then made these recordings. One student even recorded a brief preview of a TV script she had written in her spare time!

Pittsburgh King After School 2015-16: Three Things About Me

October 6, 2015 – 11:49 am

On our first day of Radio Club, students at Pittsburgh King were asked: “How would others describe you?”