WLIW-FM hosts interview writers of all kinds during live broadcasts and in studio.

WLIW-FM In Conversation is a new half-hour public radio program featuring dynamic conversations with voices from the East End and beyond. Launching with four episodes, WLIW-FM In Conversation will air weekly beginning Sunday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. on 88.3 WLIW-FM and wliw.org/radio. The program will encore Mondays at 11:30 p.m.

Long Island Morning Edition host Michael Mackey provides regional news stories and special features that speak to the body politic, the pulse of our planet, and the marketplace of life.

DOG TALK® (and Kitties, Too!) originated on the only NPR station on Long Island, WLIW-88.3, where it has been on the air for 13 years and numerous consecutive shows. This Gracie® Award-winning show (for “Best entertainment and information program on local public radio”), is produced and hosted by pet wellness advocate Tracie Hotchner. Each show features Tracie’s interviews with authors and pet experts from around the world, discussing far-ranging topics involving practical and philosophical ...

Behind the Headlines is a new one-hour, weekly public radio program featuring conversations about the local and regional news of the week. Providing analysis of the latest local and regional and cultural issues, Behind the Headlines is hosted by Express News Group editors Bill Sutton and Joseph P. Shaw. To bring listeners a diversity of perspectives, voices and views, each week Sutton and Shaw will host a rotating panel of esteemed guest journalists and colleagues, from a robust collection o ...

The morning show on Long Island’s only local NPR radio station, 88.3 WLIW-FM, hosted by award-winning multi-platform journalist, Gianna Volpe, features music from all decades & genres, as well as folks from all walks of life. The Heart airs LIVE 9am to 11am weekday mornings, with a nightly replay at midnight streaming at wliw.org/radio

The Afternoon Ramble is a unique mix of music custom made for Long Island. Listen live by tuning into 88.3 fm on Eastern Long Island and Southern Connecticut, 96.9 fm in Western Suffolk, or stream live at wliw.org/radio, radio streaming apps. Also available on smart speakers by asking for WLIW-FM.

Previews of interviews on Heart of the East End

A Tale of Two Teachers is a WLIW-FM special program and a part of Chasing the Dream: Poverty, Justice and Opportunity in America, a public media initiative from PBS flagship station, WNET in New York. Bob McKinnon, host of the podcast Attribution, talks with two married Long Island teachers. They share their extraordinary experiences teaching in different Long Island schools over the course of this challenging year.

Goes behind-the-scenes of your favorite public television programs featuring conversations with the people who make them.

Peril and Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change is a special WLIW-FM half-hour program focusing on the unique challenges and choices confronting eastern Long Island. A reporting initiative from the WNET Group, the program is hosted by veteran journalist and Planet Forward creator, Frank Sesno. Together with a panel of experts and local officials, he explores the effects climate change is already having on eastern Long Island, what communities are doing about it now, the challenges ahead, ...

Award-winning editor Bridget LeRoy and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Alec Sokolow were prom dates back in 1981. Now these Hamptons denizens host conversations with others on the East End of Long Island who cast their own interesting shadows. Whether it's famed artist/activist April Gornik, astrologers Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, actress Julie Andrews, musicians like G.E. Smith and Sophie B. Hawkins, the focus is always on the creative process, and what sparks passion and joy in their lives. ...

Exploring Hate on Eastern Long Island is a special WLIW-FM 30 minute program and part of “Exploring Hate,” a reporting initiative from The WNET Group on antisemitism, racism and extremism. Host Julian Phillips moderates a panel of experts who have devoted their careers to addressing the issues of hate on Long Island and their on-going efforts to eradicate this multi-faceted dilemma. This special broadcast will examine some of the deep-seated roots of hate which exist on Eastern Long Island—b ...

George Hirsch Lifestyle Radio explores how people from all walks of life are woven together through food and culture. No matter who they are or where they’re from, the experience of sharing a meal and exchanging tradition is a language everyone understands. In an extension of his long-running public television series, chef George Hirsch shares his holistic approach to lifestyle and food through compelling conversations with a broad array of distinctive guests – on topics ranging from nourish ...

Why do some people make it, while others don’t? How do the facts of our lives differ from our perception of it? And how does our psychology shape how we view ourselves and others? Attribution is, where people from all walks of life, reflect on who and what has contributed to where they ended up. Our hope is after each episode, you feel a little more inspired, grateful, or supported, than when you first hit play.