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Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: Chris Lee
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
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Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 04:56
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I enjoy hearing friends talk about the plants that they’ve seen on walks or hikes and when we share our enthusiasm the jabbering is so sweet.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:49
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In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s probabl...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
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Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 04:52
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Whenever I do of my “pictures and stories” presentations I always show some photos of our chickens, followed by photos of some of the wildlife they...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:16
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Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:50
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I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour of stories all about growing up, and learning lessons from family members.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
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This week, Petey talks about his experience at the March on Frankfort.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:28
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There are five species of mistletoe found in Arizona and they all can be found somewhere in southern Arizona at various elevations and on different...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:12
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Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:46
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Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
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Eumorpha typhon or the Typhon sphinx moth is out and about from June to August in the borderlands. I realized very quickly that we had everything t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:10
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There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or special wild place that mak...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
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This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
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I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:39
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We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30 years ago…kids and dogs and Christmas trees.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:51
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Can you believe I was whining about rainfall? It’s funny because as Ms. Mesquitey and I were driving to and from Cascabel we talked about coming ba...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
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Well, first of all I should explain why I set live traps for pack rats (Neotoma albigula) around our little homestead or maybe it needs no explanat...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
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White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
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Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the titl...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
Caption: The Statue of Liberty - Tokyo, Japan - Travel photography, Credit: Photo by Giuseppe Milo.
The American Dream . . . Fact or fiction? For those who come to the U.S. undocumented as children, the future can seem uncertain.

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1