Pioneer Radio
Pioneer Radio is a bi-weekly, one hour mosaic of stories, interviews, research, music, sound art, and more. Each episode centres loosely around a theme - but we stray pretty far, sometimes. We're based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2014
Last But Not Least
Episode Sixty-Two — Last But Not Least
Here it is! Our last episode ever. A look back on 4+ years of Pioneer stories, as well as two new pieces to take us into the sunset.
Please Don’t Tell
Episode Sitxy-One — Please Don’t Tell
This week: truths are revealed. We cover secret hobbies, coming-of-age angst, sex talk, the Switch Witch, and low-level illegal activity. Shh….
There’s No Accounting for Taste
Episode Sixty – There’s No Accounting for Taste
From food to romantic partners, hobbies to insensitive jokes: this episode aims to discover whether or not taste is something you can calculate.
What’s Your Problem?
Episode Fifty-Nine — What’s Your Problem?
A math problem that holds out for 358 years, tech support bruhaha (told through sound art), obsessive neuroses, an Ontario town called Swastika that refuses …
Special Episode – CATOUCH
Why are we drawn to touch, stroke, pat, nuzzle, scratch, and “scoogie” our pets? What lies beneath the tactile bond between humans and non-human animals? (Produced by Rachel…
Over My Dead Body…
Episode Fifty-Eight – Over My Dead Body
Stories of cemeteries, explicit lyrics, patents and podcasting laws, driving and old age, and what it’s like to imagine one’s own wake…
Featuring stories from …
Are You Gonna Finish That?
Episode Fifty-Seven — Are You Gonna Finish That?
Our theme for today is…“Are You Gonna Finish That?” We’ll hear stories of collecting, recollecting, unfinished projects of various types, and a story …
Oh! The Humanity
Episode Fifty-Six — Oh! The Humanity
This week: stories inspired by (and parodying) the Hindenburg disaster, parallels between ‘real human life’ and literature, physics and human evolution, and the p…
No Really…You Shouldn’t Have
Episode Fifty-Five — No Really You Shouldn’t Have
This week: things that you probably shouldn’t have done (but maybe you don’t regret). We’ve got invasive species, hijinx, potentially rabid kids, SUP…
Speak of the Devil
Episode Fifty-Four — Speak of the Devil
This week on Pioneer Radio: stories of bearing witness to pure evil, gossip, dangerous plants, cursed canoes, common misconceptions of Satan v. the traditional…