KUT RADIO, TEXAS MONTHLY COLLABORATION REFLECTS ON SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING UP IN TEXAS
Contacts: Erin Geisler 512-475-8071, egeisler at kut.org, or Emily Donahue, 512-471-1631, edonahue at kut.org
Date: May 24
KUT RADIO, TEXAS MONTHLY COLLABORATION REFLECTS ON SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING UP IN TEXAS
Laura Bush, John Phillip Santos, Shelby Hearon and Many More Share Personal Stories
AUSTIN, Texas-KUT’s award-winning news team has partnered with Texas Monthly to produce “Where I’m From,” a one-hour special featuring famous and not-so-famous Texans sharing their thoughts on how where you come from defines who you are.
Produced by KUT News Director Emily Donahue, the special is hosted by Texas Monthly’s Jake Silverstein.
Some of the Texans interviewed include: former first lady Laura Bush, musician David Lee Garza, and writers Roger Hodge, Bryan Burrough, Shelby Hearon and John Phillip Santos.
“We believe this project will provide audiences with delightful, yet thought-provoking, intelligent listening that will help us fulfill public radio’s commitment to engage citizens in considering who we are, where we’re going and how we’ll get there as a community and a state,” said Donahue.
The program will air on KUT 90.5 at 3 p.m., June 4, and at 6 p.m., June 6. It will be available at kut.org starting June 4th.
About KUT Radio
For 50 years, KUT Radio, 90.5, Austin’s listener-supported public radio, has striven to be the most trusted radio source for news and music in Central Texas. A founding member of NPR, KUT established a news department in 2002. Since then, KUT News has won more than 50 state, national and international awards for journalistic excellence. KUT is nationally known for playing a unique blend of hand picked, homegrown and uniquely Austin music, while its signature music journalism program, Texas Music Matters, uses the highest standards of public radio journalism to report on Texas music.
