Classic public-affairs radio, issue by issue.
The Ken Robinson Shows moves between practical advice, public health, crime stories, family issues, and civic life. Its episodes pair Ken Robinson's measured interview style with guests who explain concrete problems, from electric cars and credit cards to dyslexia, chronic pain, and African American dentists.
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The Ken Robinson Shows presents a wide-ranging archive of interviews, public-affairs segments, and explanatory conversations. Its center is Ken Robinson's steady broadcast style. The episodes do not chase a single niche. They move from electric cars to credit scores, then from marriage trends to mystery writing, public health, poverty, and local civic history. The appeal is in that range. A listener may hear a credit card analyst explain utilization ratios, a correspondent discuss migration patterns, or a health professional walk through heart disease risks and prevention. Other segments are more local and historical. Sunday Digest material carries the texture of Cleveland-area public service radio, with school health, panic attacks, dyslexia, organ donation, and exercise presented as practical concerns. Black Viewpoint adds another layer, focusing on issues facing Cleveland's black community and the challenges facing African American dentists. The conversations are structured and direct. Robinson typically states the subject, establishes why it matters, and asks guests to translate their expertise into plain language. Crime appears in several forms. Some episodes discuss safety in violent areas, famous murder cases, or the craft behind whodunit stories and thrillers. Family relationships are another recurring lane, especially marriage, divorce, affairs, and counseling strategies. Consumer life is present too, from auto insurance to browsers, Linux, stock trading ads, and personal finance guidance. The result feels like an audio file cabinet of practical American concerns. It is not loose hangout radio. It is not celebrity banter. Its rhythm comes from public-affairs broadcasting: setup, source, answer, recap. That older radio structure gives the show a clear shape even when the subject changes sharply. The collection is strongest for listeners who like interviews with sources, civic context, and a grounded Cleveland-area media sensibility.
Made for: For listeners who like structured interviews, civic reporting, consumer guidance, and radio with a Cleveland-area current. It especially suits generalists who want practical context across health, crime, family, finance, and community topics.
What sets it apart: The show combines classic broadcast pacing with unusually broad subject matter, shifting from consumer questions to local public-affairs archives. Its Cleveland radio lineage gives even general-interest episodes a grounded, historical feel.
Welcome to amazing podcasts from Hall of Fame broadcaster and journalist Ken Robinson in this series of classic entertainment/information programs. The collection contains interviews on a variety of subjects, like social justice, education, crime, technology, consumerism, health care and more. With over four decades of communications experience, Ken has worked for the Urban League, the United Broadcasting Company, Nationwide Communications, iHeartmedia, ABC News, Associated Press, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and the National Black Network. For details visit www.krobcollection.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ken Robinson turns statistics and public policy into direct conversations about the choices, pressures, and consequences people face.
Ken Robinson builds each edition from a sequence of focused interviews, moving between public issues and the private decisions they create. The range stretches from chronic pain policy and access to rare-disease treatment to marriage, Alzheimer's care, burial preferences, prison…
A bobblehead museum, then car insurance: Ken Robinson trusts your curiosity to handle the turn.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical episode that links caregiving, coverage, and treatment access without losing sight of the human cost.
The episode ties caregiving, insurance coverage, and treatment access together with a brief detour into the common cold. Helene Berger's account of an Alzheimer's diagnosis gives it its strongest emotional pull.
Provocative talk with live-wire edges.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Ken Robinson interviews Richard Swiger from Prison Fellowship about helping prisoners reenter society, while also previewing topics on student scams and consumer manipulation.
Ken Robinson interviews Helene Berger on transforming Alzheimer's care with compassion, Randall Ruta on insurance barriers for rare diseases, and Bill Thompson on natural cold remedies and prevention.
This episode explores significant health and social topics, starting with encouraging news on declining cancer death rates in the U.S., including details on lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers.
Jim Garrity of the American Automobile Association says 40 million Americans would consider an electric vehicle next, even though only four in 10 survey respondents think most vehicles will be electric by 2029.
Richard Montaneri says Cleveland is “a terrific place to set fiction” and “so underused.”
Ken Robinson opens with CDC data showing U.S.
["United Van Lines figures in the episode place California, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, Kansas, and Ohio on the outbound side, and ABC News correspondent Alex Stone says California is seeing more people leave than arrive for the first time in almost a decade.", "Stone ties that movement to a $1.3 million median home in San Francisco, a $337,000 median home in Boise, Idaho, lower gas prices, and a local Boise campaign telling Californians not to come with their money.", "Phil Sklar then describes the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame in Milwaukee, which opened on February 1, 2019 with 6,500 unique bobbleheads and includes rare pieces valued at $30,000 to $40,000.", "Toby Stanger gives insurance-saving advice on defensive-driving courses, higher deductibles, bundling, and accurate addresses, while James O'Connor explains why he stopped swearing and divides profanity into 'casual' and 'causal' uses."]
The Ken Robinson Shows installment of Conversations With Ken links chronic pain, teen vaping, and Cleveland poverty through patient testimony and public-policy critique.