RadioACTive

Thank you for your support of RadioACTive, KRCL's community affairs program for grassroots activists, community builders, punk rock farmers and DIY makers and musicians. Tune in weeknights at 6 as the RadioACTive team passes the mic so folks can share their stories and the causes they care about.

If you missed the show or want to listen again, visit the RadioACTive Archives or listen on demand. And catch audio clips from the show every day on RadioACTive Rewinds at 6:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m. & 2:55 p.m.

The views, opinions and statements expressed on RadioACTive are solely those of the respective speakers and do not represent or reflect the views, opinions or positions of the board, staff, and members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, nor its hosts, sponsors, and partners.

Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones 

Producer, Host: Connor Estes

Producer, Host: Asha Pruitt

Volunteer Hosts:

GET INVOLVED: If you have a story idea for RadioACTive and a song to match, then let's hear it! Soundoff to RadioACTive with our mobile app. It's free wherever you get your apps. Under the menu options, you'll find "Talk to KRCL." Click on Sound off to RadioACTive and choose audio, video and/or photos to share with us. 

Email radioactive@krcl.org with your ideas or simply dedicate a song to someone in your life or a cause you support — either way, you may end up on the show. Or call 385-800-1889 and leave a voicemail with your story idea and song to match.

PLAY HOMEGROWN MUSIC ON THE SHOW: We have live homegrown music every Friday on the show and always looking for bands to play. Fill out our form!

HAVE YOUR BEATS USED ON RADIOACTIVE: We try to support all things local in all that we do and that means using locally produced music for our bed music and promos. If you're a beatmaker in Utah send over your work and we might use it behind the scenes on the show! Fill out our form!

Ways to listen:

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Queer History Corner: Indigenous "tüvasa" in Utah

Posted June 18th, 2026

For Pride Month, KRCL and the Mildred Berryman Institute are collaborating to bring you Utah Queer History each Monday and Thursday throughout June. Long before colonialism, Indigenous tribes of what is now called Utah had tribal members who, today, we would call gender diverse. The term tüvasa (now generically referred to in English as a Two-Spirit person) was used by most tribes. Mildred Berryman Institute Board Chair Connell O’Donovan shares the little-known history of these people and their importance in Indigenous tribes.

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More Music Noir with Alexander Galore + Student Voices + Busking in SLC

Posted June 17th, 2026

Wednesday, June 17: RadioACTive passes the microphone to RA contributor Kyle Forbush to share what he's learned about busking in the Capital City. Zakia of Utah International Charter School shares her essay on what America means to her. Plus, Music Noir with Alexander Galore.

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RadioACTive Roundtable of Community, Theatre to Refugees, Animal Welfare to Film + Music Noir

Posted June 16th, 2026

Tuesday, June 16: Talanoa's Stephanie Mahina returns with filmmakers and organizers behind the annual Masima Film Festival @ SLFS. Plus, Music Noir, Animal Rights Awareness Week, World Refugee Day, and Lil Poppet's production of Sam Shepard's True West.

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Queer History Corner: Robert Micheal Painter

Posted June 15th, 2026

For Pride Month, KRCL has collaborated with the Mildred Berryman Institute to bring you Utah Queer History each Monday and Thursday throughout June. The Utah AIDS Memorial Project brings researchers, community members, and memory together to ensure that every name—every life—is remembered authentically and fully in order to build a better present and future. 

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