radio free school year two
An all-volunteer weekly radio show by, for and about un-schoolers

"What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out." (Holt, John, Teach Your Own, Dell, 1981)

RFS SHOWS May 2003 to May 2004

click on show title for programme information and to play the show (MP3)
  1. "Take chances, make mistakes, get messy": Best of Radio Free School's first year!
  2. play play play! a show about kids playing
  3. Spelunking
  4. Walking
  5. LISTEN! Storytellers
  6. BARBIE!
  7. Around the world with Rex
  8. Red Hill Valley "Camp the Ramp" protest
  9. Are you experienced? Unschooling w/Joanna Wiersma
  10. Resistance at Red Hill Valley
  11. Matt Hern:(part 1 of 2) Self Design and Alternatives to School
  12. Matt Hern:(part 2 of 2) From Warehousing to Field Day
  13. The Buzz about Bees
  14. WICCA
  15. Myths
  16. Tree Talking and Hallowe'en
  17. Lessons from Red Hill Valley
  18. Pat Farenga - The John Holt Legacy (Part one of two)
  19. Pat Farenga - The John Holt Legacy (Part two of two)
  20. The Praise Problem, with Naomi Aldort
  21. Unconditional Love w/Naomi Aldort & The how to be very crazy show
  22. Palaeontology - radio free school visits the Royal Ontario Museum
  23. Climbing & the how to be very crazy show ii
  24. Roald Dahl
  25. Radicals: Young activists at Red Hill Valley
  26. Opera Singing
  27. The Point of Pinhole Photography
  28. "Passing" on family secrets
  29. Racing Downhill, Screaming (Tobogganing)
  30. Creative Kids
  31. Zine World
  32. Learning Black (Pt 1 of 2)
  33. Learning Black (Pt 2 of 2) and tribute to Tooker Gomberg (1955-2004)
  34. Survivor!
  35. Making animation with the national film board
  36. Guerilla Learning with Grace Llewellyn
  37. Knowing your place/saving space
  38. Life Learning with Wendy Preisnitz (pt 1 of 2) (For part 2, click here)

Contact Radio Free School at PO Box 19, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON L8S 1C0