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Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
It’s always fun to have a quest when headed into the hills. It’s okay if the search doesn’t work out. It’s like the great old line, “getting ther...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen i...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 05:07
Calliandra is a beautiful plant name. I like the way a genus name can sometimes become the common name as well. I wonder how many baby girls of bot...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
A first-person account of being a standardized patient and discovering the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 09:07
An audible explanation of the series, "Tuned to Yesterday". Intended for PD's.
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:40
"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler's account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches "Great American Horse Drive". Eight...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
David Hendy on the comforts and irritations of next-door's noise. Episode twenty-four of Noise: A Human History, ‘Life in the City'.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 1
How recording technology made it possible to catch the fugitive moment. Episode twenty-five of Noise: A Human History, Capturing Sound'
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 14:47
- Purchases: 2
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 2
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:49
- Purchases: 3
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 3
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 3
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 4
David Hendy begins his thirty-part series in the prehistoric cave
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 14:38
- Purchases: 2
