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Gulf Coast Live!, is a live, locally produced call-in radio show focusing on issues that matter to Southwest Floridians. It's your chance to share your thoughts and connect to your community, live on the radio. Thursdays show focuses on the Arts around Southwest Florida. Whether produced on location, with a live audience or in our radio studio, Gulf Coast Live! invites you to interact with experts, decision makers and each other via phone calls, emails, texts, on Facebook and blogs
Post-Election Analysis
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Join our discussion of the results of Tuesday’s Republican Presidential Preference Primary election before a live studio audience. Our panel of political science experts, journalists and Southwest Florida Republican party leaders will provide in-depth analysis of the Florida Primary results and prospects for the GOP presidential field moving forward.
You can watch today's show LIVE on our website as we livestream video from our TV studio.
Leukemia Donor Drive/ Blue Revoltion: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Award-winning journalist and Florida author Cynthia Barnett returns to Gulf Coast Live for a look at her new book Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis. The book details America’s misconception about water abundance and wasteful water habits and lays the ground work for developing a new water ethic.
Plus, each year in the U.S., ten thousand patients require a bone marrow transplant to live and nearly half of those will die while waiting for a matching donor. We’ll explore the National Donor Transplant Registry’s need for a more racially and ethnically diverse pool of donors.
John Kaplan - Not As I Pictured
Monday, 30 January 2012
At the age of 48, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan found out he had a potentially deadly form of lymphoma. The diagnosis motivated Kaplan to turn the lens on himself and begin documenting his experience battling cancer. Now he’s sharing his personal and moving story in the new award winning film, Not As I Pictured.
Join our conversation with Kaplan ahead of the film’s local premiere on WGCU WORLD Monday, January 30th at 8:00 p.m. We’ll find out what prompted him to share his deeply personal journey, how the diagnosis has changed his life, and how he’s doing now.
Arts Edition - “Nick Danger: Third Eye” / Photographers Matt and Rebecca Larson
Thursday, 26 January 2012
“Nick Danger: Third Eye” a parody of the 1940’s radio detective shows originally written and performed by The Firesign Theatre in 1969 comes to Sarasota. This bit of theatrical history is the first ever fully dramatized presentation of ‘Nick Danger’. It will be performed at the Powel Crosley Estate. "Nick Danger: Third Eye is produced by Larry Barrett of Sarasota, owner of Simply Gourmet Caterers. Barrett has transformed the event into a total immersion experience, including an historic dinner as served a Delmonico’s of New York.
Then husband and wife photographers Matt and Rebecca Larson use a 23 foot Flying Cloud Airstream RV as their gallery. They bring their moving studio to the In One Instant Gallery in Fort Myers this weekend.
GUESTS:
Larry Barrett
David Osman
Matt Larson
Rebecca Larson
Sexual Abuse Awareness
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, one in four girls and one in four boys are sexually abused before they reach their 18th birthday and the number of actual cases of abuse is predicted to be much higher as children are often afraid to report the abuse.
We’ll talk with childhood sexual abuse survivor turned advocate, Lauren Book as she comes through Southwest Florida in her third annual Walk in My Shoes campaign raising awareness about childhood sexual abuse and encouraging victims to speak up. Book’s journey of more than 1,000 miles through the sunshine state will end in Tallahassee where she’s been lobbying legislators.
We’ll find out about her priorities for the state’s 2012 legislative session, plus well talk with local abuse victim advocates through the Children’s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida and Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc.
Plus, the A.C.T emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence is in great need of items such as diapers. We’ll take a look the increased need for supplies and what that could indicate about the prevalence of domestic violence and abuse in Southwest Florida.
Florida Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-96-ABUSE (962-2873)
Children’s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida
239-939-2808
Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc.
24-Hour Hotline: 239-939-3112
Emergency Shelter: 239-939-3112
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