Chris Boros
Program DirectorChris Boros is WMRA’s Program Director and local host from 10am-4pm Monday-Friday.
He’s been working in public radio for more than 20 years. Originally from NE Ohio, Chris has worked at five public radio stations and had a short stint in commercial rock radio. He’s been a production and operations director, music host and programmer, reporter, behind the scenes producer, technical director, and he studied radio/tv production at Kent State University. Chris enjoys b-movies, progressive rock music and pondering mysteries.
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Eastern Mennonite University professor, Mary Ann Zehr Zair chronicles her time in China teaching English through a new book called “Doors Cracked Open." -
When Quiana Lynell takes the stage, she guides the listeners on a journey where “jazz collides with soul.” She performs at the Forbes Center in Harrisonburg on Sunday, March 2, 2025, as part of the New Orleans Songbook from Jazz at Lincoln Center. -
Harrisonburg novelist Rebecca Kauffman tells a modern and classic story of family in her new book, I'll Come to You, which chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year. -
Virginia author, Earl Swift, tells an often forgotten story of a mass killing in 1921 that brought revelations about debt slavery to the public. -
David Hirschman writes about environmentalism through the eyes of an FBI agent in his new novel The Tenacious Bloom. He's our speaker for Books & Brews on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. -
James Madison University professor of history Evan Friss writes about the history of the American bookstore in his new book called The Bookshop. -
The Division of Perceptual Studies is an academic group from the University of Virginia that is devoted to the evidence for extraordinary human experiences. Founded in 1967, the group investigates the mind’s relationship to the body and the possibility of consciousness surviving physical death. -
A VPM News investigation found a Richmond City Council candidate who identifies as a lawyer may not be licensed. —— The Virginia Department of Health reports that we're currently in a lull between waves of respiratory illnesses. -
Virginia author Abigail Cutter’s new book deals with a Confederate soldier whose own personal war follows him into the afterlife. -
Since the early 1900’s, Massanetta Springs in Harrisonburg has served tens of thousands of people each year as a National Historic District anchored around the original Springhouse and the 1910 Historic Hotel.
