RadioACTive

Thank you for your support of RadioACTive, KRCL's community affairs program for grassroots activists, community builders, punk rock farmers and DIY makers and musicians. Tune in weeknights at 6 as the RadioACTive team passes the mic so folks can share their stories and the causes they care about.

If you missed the show or want to listen again, visit the RadioACTive Archives or listen on demand. And catch audio clips from the show every day on RadioACTive Rewinds at 6:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m. & 2:55 p.m.

The views, opinions and statements expressed on RadioACTive are solely those of the respective speakers and do not represent or reflect the views, opinions or positions of the board, staff and members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, nor its hosts, sponsors, and partners.

Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones 

Producer, Host: Connor Estes

Producer, Host: Asha Pruitt

Volunteer Hosts:

GET INVOLVED: If you have a story idea for RadioACTive and a song to match, then let's hear it! Email radioactive@krcl.org with your ideas or simply dedicate a song to someone in your life or a cause you support — either way, you may end up on the show. Or call 385-800-1889 and leave a voicemail with your story idea and song to match.

PLAY HOMEGROWN MUSIC ON THE SHOW: We have live homegrown music every Friday on the show and always looking for bands to play. Fill out our form!

HAVE YOUR BEATS USED ON RADIOACTIVE: We try to support all things local in all that we do and that means using locally produced music for our bed music and promos. If you're a beatmaker in Utah send over your work and we might use it behind the scenes on the show! Fill out our form!

Ways to listen:

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RadioACTive Celebrates 2025 Utah Book Award Authors

Wednesday, Nov. 19: Nick @ 6 talks with the Utah writers behind Wat Kept Playing (illustrated and Children Utah Great Reads Selection), Battletech: A Question of Survival (speculative fiction),  Path of Light (memoir and Adult Utah Great Reads Selection), and Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath (general non-fiction). Jack Stauss of Save Our Canyons on more trees, less SUVs in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Plus, Giving Tuesday Spotlight: Fit to Recover.

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How to Keep It Local This Holiday Season

JUST ADDED: City Weekly's Best of Utah + Art Haus Market. Tuesday, Nov. 18: Shop Small Saturday is the alternative to corporate America's Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Roundtable Tuesday has you covered so you can keep it local this season, from Central City Gift Exchange to Maven District, Art Haus Christmas Market, and more. Plus, Art for the Recovery Community Seventh Annual Festival, and the Utah Filmmaker Showcase: There Was, There was Not.

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Homegrown, Live+Livestreamed Music with West Max

Monday, Nov. 17: RadioACTive Pop's Olivia Jaramillo breaks down the zeitgeist. Plus, Love Your Block, USANA Kids Eat, more NHMU tickets, and the music of Max Young.

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Fresh & Homegrown -- It's Dad Bod on Punk Rock Farmer Friday

Friday, Nov. 14: Punk Rock Farmer Friday shines a light on a new farm incubator program with James Loomis of Wasatch Community Gardens. The Downtown SLC Winter Farmers Market starts tomorrow at a new location. Lady Façade and Phoenix Park invite you to the inaugural Iconique Awards. Plus, Skywatcher Leo T, Friday Night Fall Out Cold Weather Drive, and the homegrown music of Dad Bod.

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