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A late-night disc jockey spins records and stories, broadcasting from a pirate radio station somewhere off the coast of British Columbia. Hosted by Ron Reed, the founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Pacific Theatre. ”In theatre we have a tradition; whenever the theatre is empty we are always sure to leave one light on. Typically on a stand in the center of the stage, this light is known as the ghost light. There are many stories about its origin, but it‘s meaning is unmistakable. Though the theatre is empty, WE WILL RETURN. Until then, here’s a ghost light -- to let the world know we will be back.” Dalen O‘Connell, March 16 2020

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Dreams and Such

2026/04/29

The end of the world and the morning after, talking about dreams, schemes and themes here on Ghostlight Radio. Pickles the dog, the good and the bad, and crab apples falling from the sky, complete with zombies, poet priests, and more stuff taped to the bathroom wall.

Written on the Ensuite Walls - Part 1

2026/04/01

The words - and tunes - of the prophets, taped up on the walls of my bathroom. Paul Simon, Lou Reed, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Brian Eno, Gillette Elvgren Jr, Nelson Mandela (I think), James the brother of Jesus (they say), Hunter S. Thompson (purportedly), and more! Playing favourites while we play hookey on April Fools Day.

Soul Food Ghost Light: Letter to a Friend

2026/02/25

Kicking back on the porch tonight with musical guests Taj Mahal and Keb Mo, Daniel Amos and Paul Desmond and plenty more, and even a poet or two. Ghost Light Radio: it's pirate radio, it's a letter to a friend, and it's about time.

Soul Food Ghost Light: Where You Been?

2026/01/01

Happy New Year! The good ship Ghostlight is back, freeform radio that bids goodbye to the first quarter of the twenty-first century. A few farewells, a bit of poetry and a load of tunes to welcome a new year and launch a new season of soul-feedin' sounds.

Soul Food Ghost Light: Good Conversation, Sweet Inspiration

2025/05/21

We're back! The Good Ship Ghostlight is on the air, with musical guests including Zoe Thiessen, Silas Short, Bruce Cockburn, Carolyn Arends, Slim Smith & The Uniques, and a swell new story by Mike Mason about his close encounter of the fifth kind with John Lennon!

Soul Food Ghost Light: SOS! Emergency Transmission! Pirate radio under attack!

2025/04/07

EMERGENCY BULLETIN. Good ship Ghostlight taking on water, may be lost at sea. Mayday! Mayday! All ships at sea - ASSISTANCE REQUESTED!

Soul Food Ghost Light: Rare Treasures & Little-Known Faves

2025/04/01

Today on Ghost Light Radio we'll spring into April with a tasting menu of seasonal Soul Food tunes you've never heard before. Best consumed fresh (like, before Wednesday?), we've got ultra-rare music from the likes of Paul Simon, Johnny Cash, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles (AKA The Quarrymen), and even an off-the-beaten-track track or two from Old Blue Eyes himself. PLUS a heapin' helpin' of obligatory, delectable Canadian Content.

Soul Food Ghost Light: The World Is Too Much

2025/02/23

Here we are, aboard the Good Ship Ghost Light, lost at sea, our mind tossing like the ocean, setting sail for someplace a little less storm-toss'd. Even though it's Saturday, I'm makin' tonight Sunday, searchin' for a relax, pullin' from the jazz stacks...

Soul Food Ghost Light: Overdue Finds

2025/01/22

We're clearing out the Soul Food closet, hauling out all the neglected-but-not-forgotten treasures that didn't quite fit in episodes past. Discoveries old and new: music very old and brand spankin' new, poems about love from many sides - up and down, win and lose, break-ups past and pending - and stories about songs I've been waiting too long to tell. There might even be stuff I found in a book or two that I need to get back to the library...

Soul Food Ghost Light: A Feast of Epiphanies

2025/01/07

A January 6th special broadcast, thinking about kings and princes and rock and roll and even one last helping of festive leftovers - it's the twelfth day of Christmas, after all! Featuring the maiden voyage, the very first spin, of my brand new 1955 disc from Sun Records...

Soul Food Ghost Light: Ghosts of Christmas Presence Past

2024/12/20

This week on Ghost Light Radio, bits and pieces from forty years worth of Christmas shows at Pacific Theatre. First Christmas: An Entertainment, Cotton Patch Gospel, Dreams Of Kings And Carpenters, and of course Christmas Presence itself. From Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Bone Man Slim, seasonal selections with a theatrical flavour.

Soul Food Ghost Light: True North

2024/12/07

Sixty years of Canadian music - and radio! - in an hour and a quarter. We'll take a road trip with the son of a Saskatchewan premier, travel from the Cowichan Valley to Vancouver to Winnipeg to Toronto in search of CanCon, check up on some illustrious expats, and tune in the voices and sounds of a couple generations of north-of-the-49th radio. And you out east, don't worry, we'll pick up the cross-country journey after Christmas. Maybe call it "Strong and Free."

Soul Food Ghost Light: No Particular Place To Go

2024/11/23

We're playing exactly what we feel tonight on Ghost Light pirate radio, from Robert Zimmerman to Doris Mary Anne Keppelhoff, Domenico Modugno to Gary Keillor. The mailbag is full to bursting - Iwan from Cardiff, Tim from Saskatoon, Jack from Des Moines and Norm from Etobicoke - as we ruminate on happenings great and terrible, from Bakersfield to the moon.

Soul Food Ghost Light: Back On The Air!

2024/11/08

We're back! Had ourselves some shore leave - almost three years worth, that oughta do - and it seems like high time to unfurl the sails, unpack the microphone, and start spinning some tunes once again. New releases and really old favourites, requests and discoveries, flotsam and jetsam, just right for this present moment. Or any moment, come to think of it...

Soul Food Ghost Light: Show Tunes (but not THAT kind of show tunes), Pt 2

2022/02/26

Just before disappearing into the rehearsal hall to work on Pacific Theatre's "How The World Began," Ron looks back on some more of his favourite shows, and their music: Mercy Wild, Jesus My Boy, You Still Can't, Godspell, The Disappearing, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Doubt, The Rainmaker. Just keeping that Ghost Light burning...