North State Public Radio

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KCHO FM 91.7 and KFPR 88.9 are non-commercial non-profit organizations which are a service of California State University, Chico. We provide listeners with a vast assortment of programs reaching a diverse listening audience. We are affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This allows us to bring our listeners informative, educational and entertaining programs.

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202 Pieces

Conversations exploring where science and pop culture collide. Hosted by Dave Schlom with audio production by Matt Fidler.

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11 Pieces

A 5-part series deeply exploring of the California wildfire problem. Public Radio Veteran, Matt Fidler, combines on-location interviews with experts who understand wildfire the best, and NPR-style story telling to give listeners a non-political perspective on how to best approach a problem that is becoming increasingly destructive and deadly.

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281 Pieces

Essential connections exist between nature, our gardens, and our places in both. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program and podcast that explores what we mean when we garden.


Latest Pieces

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As we tend toward summer’s end, with end of summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we t...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brook Thompson and her father Willie Thompson smoking Salmon, Credit: Brook Thompson
Family plays a pivotal role in this episode as Dave is joined first by Yurok tribal member and environmental engineer Brook M. Thompson. Brook shar...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the throes of fire season in the especially the western regions of North America, this week we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Anglers on the Fall River with the iconic red barns, Credit: Val Atkinson
Dave sits down for a visit with world renowned fly fishing and travel photographer Val Atkinson. They discuss how Val got his first interest in pho...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as wel...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: San Francisco Baykeeper Sejal Choksi-Chugh with Hunter and Alexis Pence, Credit: SF Baykeeper
Dave visits with two time world series champion and four time MLB All Star Hunter Pence about the non profit organization he and his wife Alexis ha...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rot...

Bought by KZYX and KVMR


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Fra Mauro World map created c. 1450, Credit: Museo Correr, Venice4
Dave visits with best-selling author and award winning anthropologist Meredith F. Small to talk about her new book, Here Begins The Dark Sea: Venic...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some down time, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun. This week ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00