
Ozarks At Large


Dave Barry is coming to the Fayetteville Public Library next month. We’ll include an interview with him on a future edition of our program, but to kick off spring break week, a small preview of that conversation.
To learn more about Dave Barry’s appearance in Fayetteville: www.faylib.org.
Just a few years ago there was no such thing as a winter season when it came to TV. Now, as Wayne Bell explains, it is an important part of networks’ planning.
Although Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers is a little bitter about those who get a Spring Break, she still has fun entertainment suggestions for them today.
A recent public forum brought city and transportation fellows together to discuss the future of alternative travel in the region.


To close out today's show, we have another traditional Irish song by musicians Carol Widder and Richy McCusker.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with two former Congressmen about the partial federal government shutdown. Plus, plans to develop a Northwest Arkansas Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan are beginning to take shape.
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.
Dr. Estes from Mercy's Bella Vista clinic discusses how to protect yourself against heat, ticks, and more.
A new theatre group brings a new take on Romeo and Juliet at the Gulley Park Gazebo and it promises to be good fun.
Snake Eyes and the Bug Band will perform this afternoon at 2:00 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here, the band performs “Sew What You Reap”
Here are our ten clips celebrating horse for our Sunday Montage:
1. The Rolling Stones cannot be dragged away by Wild Horses.
2. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.
3. Michael Martin Murphy climbed the charts with Wildfire.
4. Alan Young can't seem to figure out it is Mr. Ed's birthday.
5. Cliff Nobles & Company perform the instrumental EVERY high school band in north Arkansas played at halftime in the 1970s, The Horse.
6. The Marx Brothers crack wise in the funniest horse racing movie ever made, A Day at the Races.
7. Lyle Lovett praises Trigger in If I Had a Boat.
8. The masked man rides Silver at the beginning of The Lone Ranger.
9. Hailee Steinfeld and Dakin Matthews negotiate in the latest film version of Charles Portis' True Grit. (A blast of Arkansas)
10, And we end with a double-blast of Arkansas as Arkie native Johnny Cash sings Tennessee Stud, written by Arkie native Jimmy Driftwood.
Apologies to: U2, Patti Smith, Seabiscuit, the band America, Black Beauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, War Horse and that big fake horse rolled into Troy. Maybe next time.