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Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
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There are many questions related to dark-ness, so many that it is difficult choosing where to start from.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:37
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A game I used to play as a kid. In the dark. With Mario (not his real name).

  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 09:10
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Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
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We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
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When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
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Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
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One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered old hau...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:49
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A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:38
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Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:45
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A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in 2021 with Music and Words.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WVTF


  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Avant 03 | Pamela Schwartz
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
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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
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This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:09