Brown University honored fiction writer Robert Coover this month with a three-day festival, “International Fiction Now: Celebrating the Unspeakable…
Chuck Hinman
Morning Edition Host
Chuck became part of RIPR in 2012 after a career on commercial radio. He got his broadcasting start as an announcer for Off Track Betting Corporation in NYC. He’s been a news director, music director, production director and morning personality on radio stations in Providence and Boston.
A native of New Jersey, Chuck attended the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in Mass Communications.
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Providence’s Peace Ambassadors
As the National School Walkout movement to fight gun violence continues across the country, RIPR’s Chuck Hinman talked to two members of Providence’s…
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It’s A Guitar Weekend!
Rhode Island is awash in acoustic guitar performances for the weekend of April 6-8. The University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival kicks off its 3rd…
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Artscape: Talking With Oscar-Winner James Ivory
The American director James Ivory has been a filmmaking success story for more than 30 years, mostly with his company Merchant/Ivory Productions. Now 89…
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Thousands Attend ‘March For Our Lives’ Demonstration In Providence
Thousands of people thronged the lawn of the Rhode Island Statehouse in Providence Saturday afternoon. They came together as hundreds of thousands of…
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Thousands Without Power, Coastal Damage And Death From Powerful March Storm
A man has died in Newport after being hit by a falling tree during the powerful winter storm that lashed the region Friday. Robert Beaver, 72, was…
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Striking A New Chord, Part 3: Performance
In October last year, RIPR’s Chuck Hinman joined a group of adults learning to play stringed instruments for the first time, with the Community String…
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Artscape: Re-imagining Gershwin, ‘Porgy & Bess’ and African-American Influence
In the summer of 1934, George Gershwin was staying in a cottage on Folly Island, South Carolina, working on his folk opera “Porgy and Bess.”
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One Square Mile: New Bedford’s ‘Grand Panorama’
As part of our series One Square Mile: New Bedford, we look at the “Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World”, painted by New Bedford artists…
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One Square Mile: New Bedford’s Abolition Row
As part of RIPR’s One Square Mile: New Bedford series, RIPR’s Chuck Hinman talks with Lee Blake, the president of the New Bedford Historical Society,…
