The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour End-of-Year Extravaganza '25
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Host Scot Bertram sits down with Hyperion Knight, concert pianist and distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College, and discusses the newest Hillsdale College online course: "The History of Classical Music: Chopin through Gershwin." Also, we count down the most popular episodes of 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.7 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdingham Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:33.8 | This, the special year-end extravaganza for 2025. As we say goodbye to 2025 and usher in |
| 0:41.3 | 26. We'll recap the most listened to programs from 2025 later on in this program. We'll also talk |
| 0:49.2 | with Hyperion Knight, who is your teacher for the brand new Hillsdale College online course, |
| 0:54.9 | History of Music, Part 2. First, I want to thank you for making 2025 the biggest year to date |
| 1:03.0 | in the Radio Free Hillsdale Hours history, meaning more people listen to programs this year |
| 1:10.0 | than ever before for the Radio Free Hillsdale |
| 1:13.2 | hour. And it's a joy and a blessing to continue to be a growing entity here in the podcast space |
| 1:19.6 | in 2025. More people are hearing the program. That means more of you are telling people about |
| 1:24.8 | the program, and we thank you for that. |
| 1:28.0 | Well over half a million people listen to the radio-free Hillsdale Hour during the course |
| 1:34.3 | of this past year, and more than two million listen to Hillsdale College Podcasts across the |
| 1:41.4 | board. You can find more at podcast.hillsdale.edu, but that includes |
| 1:46.7 | the Larry Arn Show, Imprimus, Hillsdale Dialogues, the Hillsdale College Online |
| 1:52.6 | Courses podcast, all available there, all available where you get your audio. We invite you to |
| 1:59.4 | experiment. Try new things. Find new favorite podcasts |
| 2:03.7 | inside the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. This year, also, we expanded our radio profile, |
| 2:11.9 | too. This is also a terrestrial radio show. You can hear it on some of your favorite radio stations. |
| 2:19.0 | It is now on 53 radio stations all across the country. In almost 30 states across the country, we continue to expand. |
| 2:27.8 | If this show is not on your favorite radio station, you can ask nicely, the program director, the person in charge of the |
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