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 River Jordan hosts Clearstory Radio on 107.1 Nashville Wednesday at 12:00pm and Sundays at 6pm!Best-Selling, Award-winning, and Debut Authors from every limb of the literary tree visit on Clearstory to talk about words – where we find them, what inspires them, why we write them, need them, breathe them!  Join us  for Conversations that celebrate our life stories and the writers who live to tell them so well. TUNE IN TODAY THROUGH www.radiofreenashville.org Listen Live LinkComing soon: listen to this show on demand and at your leisure!

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BACKSTORY on CLEARSTORY

Jordan’s passion for the power of story can be traced back to her southern roots where porches and fireside gatherings were the theatre stage of the day. At an early age she developed an ear for a story well told. The ride through the countryside to visit Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and a bevy of cousins in her mother’s ’63 Bonneville convertible magnified that experience. The sound of the announcer’s voice filtering through the moonlit night from the ‘magic box’ was mesmerizing. Year’s later journalism and radio broadcasting made a serious impression on the young high school student who was intent on producing award-winning radio programs at an early age. Her seriousness won her a scholarship in Journalism and her life in Radio continued as she produced the local news and learned the in’s and out’s of live radio at a college station.

This is also the experience where much of her Southern accent was professionally erased by well-meaning Professors preparing her for a national career. Little did they know that the future held other plans and that other forms of Storytelling would soon capture River Jordan’s time and talent.After writing plays, four novels, and a collection of essays River Jordan still couldn’t leave the airwaves behind. For the past three years she has collected authors and all manner of creative souls to share their stories on the radio. Today, Clearstory Radio combines Ms. Jordan’s passion for the written word and her love of the ‘magic box’. In the end it’s all about the story, where we find it, what inspires it, how to write it, and why our passionate celebration of the word must continue. Each Clearstory Studio session includes interviews with best-selling and newly discovered writing talents and has featured such notable authors as Clyde Edgerton, Terry Kay, Barry Eisler, Janis Owens, Joshilyn Jackson, JT Ellison, Tasha Alexander, Silas House and many others.

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