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A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein January 1 2026 What I LovedWhat is it about New Year's? Signaled by a day? I picture an enormous hourglass--a yearly one-- turned over by a giant force. Another next chance--your seemingly endless chunk of time will too soon dissolve like the grains of sand dripping through the glass. But we are pleased for more, always wanting more! We may or may not meet the resolves we set -- I say forgive yourself ahead of time! Here are some artists I've loved; some discovered in 2025. C'est le vent, Bettye/Gabriel Yared, Adrian Jodorowsky/Dancing to the Radio, Ben Sollee/A Change is Gonna Come...
2026-01-012h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein, Dec 18, 2025 Offering WarmthAre you shivering in your boots? Huddled around a fire? Ordering flannel sheets on sale? We love seasonal continuity and repetition, don't we? Cuz, as they say, what's the alternative? Well, here are 3 hours of seriously and carefully curated new and older music and some words; among them John Glacier, London Grammar, Thylacine, Christian Loffler, Jay Som, james K, Ula, Smerz, Lizzie Weber, Kate Bush, Milkweed, Rattle, Mei Semones, Kinski, Iniko, Half Japanese, Elijah Minnelli, Nalead, SEVN, So, The "Gaia-Gram," a short segment by Kevin Gallagher about threats to our environment, MONG, Robyn & Jamie xx, Hannes Bieger, Blue Man...
2025-12-182h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein December 4, 2025 Cold Moon, Warm HeartCold Supermoon but Warm-hearted host, exploring interstitial spaces. Can be literal, like gaps between yr teeth, spaces between cells, or figurative; can be in-between states, identities. Exists in art--going outside the mainstream. Join me for 3 hours of curated goodness with a film recommendation. The gorgeousness of Elder Island, Nena, Art School Girlfriend, FJ McMahon, May Zoean, Sarah Fimm, Tony Levin, David Baron, Blood Orange, In These Trees and Tartie, Bob Dylan, Asgeir, and many more! RIP Jimmy Cliff. Questions/comments? binnie@wpkn.org. Next show is December 18, 2025. Thanks to all the great musicians and attentive listeners!
2025-12-052h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein November 20 2025 Authenticity"Authenticity sweet spot: when the music resonates with you" -- Susan Rogers, This is What it Sounds LikeHere on A Miniature World it's indie music, outie, inner, outer, sideways, byways, all the ways. Something old, something new, something blue, impressionistic, spoken words, shared emotions, happy/sad, glorious/remarkable...terrestrial...streaming...beaming...podcasting and dreaming...Sevadliza, Alec Benjamin, brux XTN, Yukimi, MILCK, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Quilt, Pyeng Threadgill, Yo La Tengo, Hauschka, Nits, Pumuky, The Pogues, Altered Images, Donovan, Makk, Brian Kelly, Camper Van Beethoven, The Cavemen, A Silent Film, Nation of Language, Will Swinton, Marisa Anderson, Julia Holter, Lae...
2025-11-212h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein - November 6, 2025 - Indie HeavenA Miniature World (words and music) expands today to 3 hours, with poems by Binnie Klein, Tristan Tzara (I always like to be paired with a surrealist!), and a tidbit from Paul Lisicky's memoir about Joni Mitchell. And the most exquisitely curated trip through the work of artists like Banks, Tame Impala, Lolli Wren, Future Islands, Blood Orange, David Bowie, Elbow, with some cool psychedelia, folk, and world music sprinkled throughout. If you'd like to reach Binnie for questions or comments: binnie@wpkn.org.Next episode premieres November 20, 2025! Binnie's songwriting project is In These Trees and Tartie.
2025-11-062h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein - September 18, 2025 - "Only Connect""Only connect" (E.M. Forster) For what else can be done in these times? I can reach you with this curated show of sound and words. Will you open your heart like a flower and be receptive? Music from Beach House, Ivy, Yellow House, Daphne's Demise, Hibou, Peter Gabriel, poem M.C. Escher by Binnie Klein, Basia Bulat, Futurebirds, etc.
2025-10-191h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein - October 2, 2025 - Autumn Field Recording from My DeckThere is nothing more glorious than the sight and sound of a dog jumping into a pile of leaves. I recorded this episode out on my deck on one of the few remaining glorious autumn days. Amidst gorgeous music by, among others, MILCK, Bastille, New Order, Kae Tempest, Phish, Perfume Genius, Cold War Kids, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 1958 poem "I Am Waiting," (read by Abu B. Rafique), I water the plants and bug spray gives me a coughing fit.
2025-10-171h 55
A Miniature World with Binnie KleinOctober 16, 2025 - Walking in the WoodsI walk in the woods with my small dog. I talk about a new hybrid bird species. Music includes Ladytron, Not for Radio, Ponybird, Automatic, Antelope, SAULT, The Marias, Winona Oak, In These Trees and Tartie, Christopher Mir, Kate Bush, Lord Huron, etc...
2025-10-171h 55
Crow's Feet: Life As We AgeREINVENTION AS WE AGE IS BASED ON CREATIVITYBinnie Klein is a Renaissance woman. At 74 she has reinvented her life time and again, from poet to psychotherapist to memoirist to songwriter, with several steps in between. She picked up boxing as a sport when she was 55. The red gloves in the corner of the gym caught her eye, and a memoir followed in 2010. A surprise phone call in 2016 triggered memories of a long-ago love, heartbreak, and the radical politics of the 1960s. A six-part audio memoir ensued. In this episode, she talks with host Jane Trombley about creativity being the “sustaining thing,”...
2025-04-0929 min
CV con Judith Vives📚🥇 Los mejores (y peores) libros de 2024! Opiniones y galardonesHello hello! Al fiiiiiiin el mejor momento del año: ver las lecturas favoritas de todo el mundo. Aquí humildemente las mías, pero hechas en formato de gala de premios porque soy quien decide mi propio destino. Feliz 2025!!He mencionado muchos libros durante el capi, os los dejo todos aquí, en orden de mención 😀Un momento de ternura y piedad de Irene CuevasLa segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante de Salomé EsperTerrace story de Hilary LeichterLa segunda venida de Hilda Bustamant...
2024-12-2936 min
Into MusicInto Music: Binnie KleinIn this conversation, Binnie Klein sheds some light on the project "The Quiver" while also discussing creativity itself.
2024-11-2829 min
Zig At The Gig podcastBinnie Klein of In These Trees and TartieInterview with Binnie Klein of In These Trees and Tartie
In These Trees is an alternative indie music project led by Binnie Klein. Klein's lyrical stories are suffused with human longing and memory, and pair gracefully with soulful melodies from the artists who perform her work. With her extensive background in music as a radio DJ and a career in writing, Klein seeks to elevate her words through collaboration with rising artists. "Orchard" is her premier single inspired by her audio memoir, 10 Days in Newark, with music by Australian artist, Tartie. In These Trees and Tartie now...
2024-11-201h 11
Performance AnxietyTartie (In These Trees)Today’s guest should be musically jetlagged. But she’s not. Welcome the mononymous Tartie to the podcast. She’s from Melbourne and has recently collaborated with Binnie Klein out of Connecticut for a project called In These Trees. It’s an emotional journey of an album. But before that happened, Tartie went through a whole lot of other phases. She taught herself piano at age six. She also started writing original music early on. She eventually studied music in college and played some unusual early gigs. Tartie discusses her early music, which is definitely more pop than more...
2024-11-201h 03
That Record Got Me High PodcastJoni Mitchell 'For The Roses' with Binnie KleinAuthor, radio host and songwriter Binnie Klein (WPKN Radio, In These Trees) brings us Joni Mitchell and her stunning 1972 release, 'For The Roses'. Searching for balance in her life after a tumultuous relationship with James Taylor - and trying to escape the craziness of Los Angeles - Joni trekked back up to the Canadian wilderness and wrote most of this, her 5th studio album, while in retreat: "You've got to shake your fists at lightning now You've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky...
2024-10-261h 11
Stereo Embers: The PodcastStereo Embers The Podcast 0400: Binnie Klein (In These Trees)"The Quiver"
A poet, a radio host on WPKN and a memoirist, the New Haven based psychotherapist Binnie Klein is also a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale. Her 2010 memoir, by the way, Blows To The Head, How Boxing Changed My Mind, is a revelation, But let's get back to the poetry. Klein started the indie music collective In These Trees back in 2019 and her friendship with Australian singer/songwriter Tartie that resulted in an exchange of poetry, augmented that collective's strength with a ten-song album of heart-stopping beauty that is some of the most compelling and sonorous...
2024-09-1157 min
The Watt From Pedro Show2024-08-12 The Watt from Pedro Showhour one:
"paul's pal" (excerpt from private jam in detroit 1958) john coltrane
"mother is born again" binnie klein
"not right now" binnie klein
"block out the sun" thousand dollar movie
"complexity uv be'eng" model home
"burning like candles" (home demo) project daywalker
"vida blue" mamaleek
"the rodents in paradise" ∞ + inyan & corina retzlaff + hatsune miku
"ledger" jeb bishop + pandelis karayorgis
"white haired person" dtr
"simone" (demo) in these trees
hour two:
"orchard" in these trees and tartie
"fingerprints" finom
"from the hip" corker conboy
"garden of forgotten things" alvidrez
"your tracks are too dark" pollution opera featuring zuli
"dilemma" in these tr...
2024-08-123h 00
First Voices Radio10/15/23 - Binnie KleinBinnie Klein hosts “A Miniature World,” a music and interview show at WPKN 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT. WPKN streams at wpkn.org. (WPKN is the former “home” of “First Voices Radio” and a longtime, treasured affiliate). Binnie maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in New Haven, CT, and has been a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She also is an author and publishes in many publications. Binnie’s latest creative project is an indie music collaboration, “In These Trees and Tartie.” While sorting through submissions for her radio show, Binnie was particularly captivated by an Australian s...
2023-10-1657 min
WPKN Community RadioJeff Pevar EXTENDED Interview with host Binnie Klein July 2023An in-depth interview with virtuoso guitarist Jeff Pevar, who has played with Ray Charles, David Crosby, Laura Nyro, Joe Cocker, Bette Midler, James Taylor, Phil Lesh, Donald Fagen, and many more. He is a sought after session musician and composer for tv and movies, and has co-written many songs that have appeared on recordings of David Crosby, Graham Nash and other artists. Jeff is a great storyteller and shares exceptional musical moments and tales of collaborations.
2023-07-2448 min
Under the SisterhoodBinnie Klein on language and the art of psychotherapy.Today we’re getting under the hood of Binnie Klein a daughter, sister, friend, author, songwriter, radio show host, and psychotherapist. Binnie wears many hats and wonders why she isn’t growing taller! She’s a psychotherapist in New Haven, CT. She’s been a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She’s an author of poems, essays, and a memoir about her unusual venture into boxing. She hosts a music radio show, “A Miniature World” twice a month at the alternative station WPKN, out of Bridgeport, CT, and streaming globally. Most recently...
2023-07-061h 17
Harmonious WorldBinnie KleinOrchard starts and finishes this week's episode of Harmonious World, as I discuss the writing and recording of the track with writer and radio host Binnie Klein.Binnie's brand new collaborative project is very exciting and includes a video for Orchard, which features the voice of Australian artist Tartie.Thanks to Binnie for allowing me to start and finish this episode with the single alongside our conversation.Follow me on instagram.com/hilaryrwriterFollow me on facebook.com/HilaryRobertsonFreelanceWriterFollow me on twitter.com/hilaryrwriterGet in touch to...
2021-12-1323 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for March 12, 2019This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss If Cats Disappeared from the World, SHOUT, When the Irish Invaded Canada, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson, out now from Grove Press, and ThirdLove.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a com...
2019-03-1237 min
Yale University: Books & Authors"Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind"Yale lecturer Binnie Klein will read from her book "Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind."
2010-03-1900 min