Radio Curious

Series produced by Barry Vogel

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Welcome to Radio Curious, now in it 26th year. We have over 600 half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics prepared by host and producer Barry Vogel, Esq. He began interviewing people as a child and has been curious since.

Radio Curious, in its 26th year, offers over 600 half-hour interviews on a curiously wide range of topics including, (but not limited to,) politics; religion; environment; law; culture, travel; self-identity, genetics psychiatry/psychology; food; humor; music; ect.

Radio Curious is based in Ukiah, California. Barry Vogel, Esq. is the host and producer. Christina Aanestad is the assistant producer. Take a look at our website, www.radicurious.org and have a listen, here, or there.


546 Pieces

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As a follow up to last week's program, Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a two-part 1999 conversation with Mike Frost, a retired Canadian spy and author of “Spy World:  Inside the Canadian and Amer...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
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Radio Curious revisits a 1995 conversation with Wesley Swearingen, former FBI agent and author of “FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose.”

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about shamanism in the Ecuadorian Amazon with Dr. Juan Martinez, Professor of History and Anthropology at the...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Melissa Buron, art historian and curator of the French Impressionist exhibit, Impressionists on the Water, currently at t...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.”

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a two part, 2006 conversation with Dr. Daniel Levitin about the relationship between music and the brain. Dr. Levitan is au...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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Radio Curious discusses the rights of families to care for their dead and the funeral industry in this two-part interview with Lisa Carlson and Jos...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
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Radio Curious discusses incarceration and solitary confinement from the prisoner's perspective with Steven Czifra, a 38 year old undergraduate stud...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
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Radio Curious continues it's series about the funeral industry in a conversation with funeral director and mortician, George Leinen, owner of Empir...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious assistant producer Christina Aanestad speaks with Leonard Benally, a Navajo elder who shares his life's experiences of growing up and...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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The Day of the Dead, as it's celebrated in Mexico, is the subject of this archive edition of Radio Curious in conversation with Gregorio Luke, the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious visits with organic grape grower Charlie Barra, founder of Barra of Mendocino Organic Wines.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with local singer, songwriter Mary Buckley, who shares songs from her new CD “What Are You Afraid Of.”

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious discusses Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, two holidays which intersect this year. Our guests are Mark Binder, author of "A Hanukkah Presen...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious visits with Rob Schroeder, a water well driller and dowser, as he hunts for water in the northern California mountains. Dowsing is a...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious visits with Don L. Brown, author of “Morphine Dreams: Delusions of Grandeur or Relentless Ambition?  Sometimes it’s Hard to Tell the ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with identical twins, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who were separated as infants and reunited in 2003 at the ages of 35. ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:00