Past topics on the Friday Focus Show, where you can learn more than you ever thought possible about a specific kind of music. Fridays 7-9pm.
| Date | Topic | DJ |
| 5/17/2013 | Boris: The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Chronicle |
James |
| 5/10/2013 | Weztern Mass |
Rob S-F |
| 5/3/2013 | James Brown's 80th Birthday |
Gary Tyson |
| 4/26/2013 | Morons |
Alex |
| 4/19/2013 | Count Your Lucky Stars: An Intimate Exploration |
Tahoe |
| 4/12/2013 | Teutonic Sh*t w/ House of Brutal |
Alex |
| 4/5/2013 | My So-called Focus Show |
Eric |
| Claire and Eric try to pin down why Third Eye Blind are so impossibly good. | ||
| 3/29/2013 | Charleston |
John Litweiler |
| A Friday Focus Jazz Special Now dance the charleston with WHPK When Jazz Was All Jass! A program of music from back when jazz was a very young art form and Chicago was the Jazz Center of the World. Hear records from 100 years ago*, 95 years ago*, 90 years ago*, and a mere 85 years ago*. And lots of other great jazz. Friday, March 29, 7 to 9 pm ONLY on WHPK, 88.5 FM and whpk.org - Chicago's leading jazz radio station Host: John Litweiler *100: James Reese Europe, Scott Joplin * 95: W.C. Handy * 90: King Oliver w/Louis Armstrong and the Dodds Brothers, Ma Rainey, James P. Johnson, Bessie Smith * 85: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, and early big bands (Ellington, Fletcher Henderson) * AND.... | ||