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Complex PTSD describes the existence of long-term trauma. An artist, a therapist, and a researcher seek to unravel the nuances of C-PTSD, while sti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Fandoms have got a lot of media attention for their toxicity. But there’s a big flip side — one that describes the mental health and community bene...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 58:23
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’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:30
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:17
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Listen to Producer Christopher Golab explore his career with The Scene, featuring old and new material.
- Added: May 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:46
Comedians don’t always have good shows, and they know that. But all bombing is not equal. . . sometimes it’s a little worse that others. Here’s a s...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 04:21
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear how immig...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KUNM
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio has been a tonic for almost half-a-century. I have radio obligations to fu...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 02:52:34
Angus Bossenberry's Song Story takes us on a colorful and funny road trip as he hitchhikes up the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 05:43
Kristopher Ohlendorf is a Media Studies grad student and ponderer of big questions. Like, why is that bicycle horn honking in the Beach Boys “You ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2015
- Length: 06:08
Grant Hawkins is a Masters student in Music and a lover of sounds. His Song Story is about love and winter and his song, “Myth” by Beach House, is...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:41
Join in a pub singalong as Brigitte Stamp remembers her Dad, her ear pressed to his chest to hear the resonance of his voice, as he sang one of his...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:13
Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 06:39
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability two years after experiencing an AVM, an Arteriov...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KVSC
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?
- Added: Jan 14, 2014
- Length: 14:26
The image of India has changed in American eyes, yet so has America's image... in Indian eyes.
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
