Radio Curious

Series produced by Barry Vogel

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Welcome to Radio Curious, now in it 26th year. We have over 600 half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics prepared by host and producer Barry Vogel, Esq. He began interviewing people as a child and has been curious since.

Radio Curious, in its 26th year, offers over 600 half-hour interviews on a curiously wide range of topics including, (but not limited to,) politics; religion; environment; law; culture, travel; self-identity, genetics psychiatry/psychology; food; humor; music; ect.

Radio Curious is based in Ukiah, California. Barry Vogel, Esq. is the host and producer. Christina Aanestad is the assistant producer. Take a look at our website, www.radicurious.org and have a listen, here, or there.


550 Pieces

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Caption: Sudan & South Sudan, Credit: Loststates.com
Genocide by attrition, as explained by Sam Totten, professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas and genocide scholar, is the topic of this edit...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Brenda Mbaabu, an immigrant woman in her mid-twenties from Nairobi, Kenya who shares her Meru tribal history and experien...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious discusses the evolution of women's bodies and why they have curves with Dr. David Bainbridge, author of “Curvology:  The Origins and ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious discusses racial discrimination and cultural gender norms with Josanna Kiggins, a young black woman living in the small, predominantl...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Jaciara Bayer, a transracial adoptee who shares her personal experiences of being told she’s different, growing up in a w...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious discusses the world history of chickens with Andrew Lawler, author of “Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?  The Epic Saga of the Bir...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious honors Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in an archived conversation with Bernard Offen, a survivor of five concentration c...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top-secret, military documents about the Vietnam war in 1971. ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Eben Moglen, a developer of the Freedom Box, which is designed to prevent government and other intruders...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Amei Wallach, producer and director of the documentary “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here,” about the lives of a world ...

  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Felicia Lowe the producer of “Chinese Couplets” a documentary about Lowe's quest to learn about her ancestral history by ...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Ronnie Gilbert memorial, with excepts from her 1996 visit to Radio Curious, and remembrances by Holly Near

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:04
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Radio Curious visits with playwright Don Samson, who discusses his work and creative process and his former life as the author of legal briefs for ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Victoria Patterson,Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, who has wor...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
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Radio Curious visits with Michael Gene Sullivan, the resident playwright, director and a principal actor in "2015: Freedomland," a political and th...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious visits with Ari Berman, a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, who writes regularly on election and voting rights issues.  Hi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits with the last Mexican Governor of California, Pio Pico, as portrayed by historian Roberto Garza. Pico fled California during ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious guest host Martha McCabe discusses Pope Francis and the future of the Catholic Church with Father Tom Reese, a member of the Society ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:02