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, Music Editor: Connor Estes

Producer, Host, Arts Editor: Asha Pruitt

Volunteer Hosts:

GET INVOLVED: If you have a story idea for RadioACTive and a song to match, then let's hear it! Sound Off to RadioACTive via the KRCL Public Radio App—free wherever you get your apps. Click Menu > Talk to KRCL > Sound Off to RadioACTive. You can use it to send us audio, video, and pictures. It's about 60 seconds, so make it count!

  • SAY MORE: If you've got more to say than the app gives you time for, then record a message on your smartphone and email it to radioactive@krcl.org. Share your feedback, ideas for the show, or dedicate a song to someone in your life or a cause you support — either way, you may end up on the show. 

PLAY HOMEGROWN MUSIC ON THE SHOW: We have live homegrown music every Friday on the show and are 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!

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The Living Document Isn't the Constitution. It's 'We the People' and What We Do Next

Posted July 23rd, 2026

Thursday, July 23: RadioACTive Workshop's America 250 Book Club wraps its exploration of our founding documents, the stories we hear about them, and the storytellers themselves. This week, Lianna Manibog of The Threadwork Collective leads us in a discussion of The Living Document -- it isn't the Constitution; it's We the People. Plus, Meet Your Maker, Great Salt Lake Hopeline, and 'Sounds Like the 1st Amendment' with The Utah Investigative Journalism Project.

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New Art Museum Opens + Gallery Favorite Gets a Glow Up

Posted July 22nd, 2026

Wednesday, July 22: RadioACTive with Nick @ 6 heads to the art gallery, with the brand new Salt Lake Art Museum and a brand new location for Art Access Gallery, a nonprofit that creates a space where art is for everyone. Plus, long summer days and baseball games go hand in hand. Tune in for the RMCR Regional Roundup to hear about a summer collegiate baseball team that's keeping a decades-old tradition alive, and other stories from independent media in the region.

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Singing Resistance to Prayers for Rain

Posted July 21st, 2026

Tuesday, July 21: Roundtable Tuesday with Risshan Leak gets a sneak peek as Singing Resistance SLC prepares for its Storm Mountain Canyon Concert to benefit Comunidades Unidas. CU's Dominque Byrd updates us on ICE's impact in the community and ways to help. Plus, The Variants @ GSL Fringe, and Prayers for Rain.

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RadioACTive Pop! Kicks Off Days of '47 Week with a Pioneer in the Art Community

Posted July 20th, 2026

Monday, July 20: Just as KRCL Digs Everyone's Individuality, we also believe that everyone has their own pioneer story. So, as we roll toward Pie & Beer Day, we talk with a unique cast of characters. Tonight, RadioACTive Pop!'s Olivia Jaramillo hosts the one and only Cat Palmer: photographer, artist, Utah Queer Film Festival program director, and now host of The Cat’s Meow SLC.

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