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In a city of 8 million people, you’d think finding someone to date would be easy. There are dating apps, dating events, you can even hire a profess...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 05:13
Art can be an expression of many elements of the self. So what happens when your sense of self is evolving or fluid? That’s something that local ar...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 07:39
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Tooth be told, it’s the symphony you don’t want to hear. Ever.
All too often, we take our modern lives for granted. Is the air conditioning broken...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 07:38
In episode 1, Matt gets down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend, Cait. She happened to have the same idea… on the same day.
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 23:54
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:09
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
I always want to add an extra T when I write Yucca baccata, but no, two Cs and one T is correct. The specific epithet baccata is from Latin and mea...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:59
The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:00
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:42
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is fun. And by the way, it was my friend and Willcox resident Steve Marlatt who reminded me of ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:55
Most of us are used to seeing art framed hanging on walls. In Taos, New Mexico, an outdoor arts festival brings unique, interactive art to the stre...
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
The ‘Lighthouse for Broward’ is a rehabilitation and healthcare resource for the visually impaired in Fort Lauderdale. Its exterior walls are now a...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
An interview with actress Melanie Chartoff, author of "Odd Woman Out"
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 31:07
An interview with voice actor Rob Paulsen (Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 25:12
In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:23
Synesthete Joyce Yang describes the colors of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 31 as she plays.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:37
He wanted larger and louder. The stage was set for Beethoven, but being on the cusp of change had its challenges.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Cómo Ludwig van Beethoven proyectó una gran sombra sobre Haydn y Brahms, dos gigantes de la música que vinieron antes y después de él.
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:14
Beethoven’s teacher, Franz Josef Haydn, was eclipsed by the genius of his young student. Later, a young Johannes Brahms spent decades writing his f...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
La multipercusionista escocesa Evelyn Glennie ha estado completamente sorda desde los 12 años. Compartió con CPR Classical cómo una persona sorda p...
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:07
My name is Delaney Kelser and I am currently a senior at the University of Arizona. I am majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a minor in...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 05:03
