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Wordplay Podcast

Current Show
Air Date: January 31, 2025
When Is ”Work Naked Day” Celebrated?

WordplayJanuary 31, 2025
00:00 / 29:28

Last Week’s Show
Air Date: January 24, 2025
Polar Death Vortex

WordplayJanuary 24, 2025
00:00 / 29:00

More past shows listed below

Now You Can Listen to Wordplay On Demand!

For the last 15+ years, the half-hour Wordplay poetry program has been aired live on the WJCU FM radio waves to the University Heights community of Cleveland, Ohio. Now you can access the show here and on-demand — from anywhere and any time.

Wordplay presents an offbeat mix of poetry, comedy, and an ongoing exploration of the possibilities of the spoken word. Wordplay’s opening monologue blends music and language into a surreal, funny, often darkly serious meditation on the state of one man’s struggles to live in the bewildering world of contemporary America.

 

Co-hosts George Bilgere and John Donoghue read short, interesting poems by important writers. They banter about poetry, argue about it, and generally give each other a hard time. The Plain Dealer called Wordplay  “the Car Talk of poetry.” 

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George Bilgere and John Donoghue at their weekly recording session in George's dining room.

Past Wordplay Shows

Original Air Date: April 19, 2019
Easter Clothes

WordplayApril 19, 2019
00:00 / 29:52

For information about poetry readings or reprinting George’s poems, please contact him at:
George Bilgere
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WORDPLAY PODCAST
George and John Donoghue have hosted their poetry show Wordplay for fifteen years! You can listen to “the Car Talk of poetry” Fridays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on 
WJCU.

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