Fletcher Powell
Production Director | All Things Considered Host | You’re Saying It Wrong Host and Producer | Movie Reviewer | Wichita’s Early Edition Host | The Range Executive ProducerFletcher Powell has worked at KMUW since 2009 as a producer, reporter, and host. He's been the host of All Things Considered since 2012 and KMUW's movie critic since 2016. He also co-hosts the PMJA-award winning show You're Saying It Wrong, which is distributed around the country on public radio stations and around the world through podcasts. Fletcher is a member of the Critics Choice Association.
Fletcher was recently honored with state wide Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards for You’re Saying It Wrong: The Words of 2023, 'Poor Things' is a world of delights, Newscast June 13, 2024, and the Substance Use Resource Page.
Fletcher can be reached by email at powell@kmuw.org.
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KMUW's Beth Golay speaks with author Annie Hartnett about her novel "The Road to Tender Heart," and KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin visits with author Jason Bailey about his biography of the late actor James Gandolfini. Plus news from Wichita and around the state. -
1985 may not seem like a long time ago, but people back then had some pretty different ideas about how to speak "properly." -
Five For Fighting's John Ondrasik was initially disappointed when his songs stopped becoming Top 40 hits but he says that he soon discovered that there was more than chart success. More on that, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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April May Webb won the 2024 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in part based on her performance of a notoriously difficult John Coltrane composition. Even her husband, trumpeter Randall Haywood had his doubts. We have Jedd Beaudoin's conversation with Webb, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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Fletcher Powell says to stop him if you've heard this one before. -
Jazz musician Peter Erskine has seen a number of changes in the genre since he began playing professionally in the late 1960s when, he says, he was aware of a changing of the musical guard that drew a line between him and one of his musical mentors. More on that, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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When researching the 15th century, author Jo Harkin noticed that sometimes there are holes in recorded history, opening the door for imagined history. KMUW's Beth Golay speaks with Harkin about her work of historical fiction, "The Pretender." Plus we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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What does the stock market have to do with piracy in the West Indies? The Dutch, of course! (Really!) -
Yasmin Nur recently released the album "Slaughter." She says that throughout her life she's been told that she's too sensitive and wants to push back on that notion through her music. More on that, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and writing songs for other artists. He's also just released his second solo album, "The Melancholy Season" and although he says some of the lyrics on the album have their roots in poetry he's in no hurry to declare himself a poet. We have Jedd Beaudoin's conversation with Tench, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
