Special: Rabbit Box Radio - My Life in Black & White

WUGA | By Chris Shupe

Published October 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM EDT

Rabbit Box Radio is a collection of recordings of live story telling done right here from the stages of Athens Georgia. This debut episode titled "My Life in Black and White" features stories about race relations in the south. Audio was pulled from the Rabbit Box archives of over 500 stories. The show includes a story from A.R. Killian (one of the two first black police officers in Athens), Alfred Cooper (band member of Otis Redding and Percy Sledge), and many others.

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Chris Shupe

Chris Shupe was the Program Director of WUGA from 2014-2022. Shupe may be best known as The Athens King, a tribute to Elvis Presley, which often included an 8 piece show band! After two years as a part-time announcer, Chris Shupe joined WUGA full time as the station’s Morning Edition Host and Assistant Operations Director. He was later promoted to PD in 2014.

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