North State Public Radio

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KCHO FM 91.7 and KFPR 88.9 are non-commercial non-profit organizations which are a service of California State University, Chico. We provide listeners with a vast assortment of programs reaching a diverse listening audience. We are affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This allows us to bring our listeners informative, educational and entertaining programs.

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Conversations exploring where science and pop culture collide. Hosted by Dave Schlom with audio production by Matt Fidler.

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A 5-part series deeply exploring of the California wildfire problem. Public Radio Veteran, Matt Fidler, combines on-location interviews with experts who understand wildfire the best, and NPR-style story telling to give listeners a non-political perspective on how to best approach a problem that is becoming increasingly destructive and deadly.

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282 Pieces

Essential connections exist between nature, our gardens, and our places in both. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program and podcast that explores what we mean when we garden.


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Dave visits with British born Thailand resident Fred Hogge about his new book, Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity. In it, Ho...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Many listeners will remember an earlier conversation I had with Cris on Cultivating Place in April of 2021, when Cris was the Board Chair of the Ca...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Apollo 17 image of the Earth "The Blue Marble."    NASA
We conclude our Apollo@50 series of looks at the Apollo missions to the Moon with looks back and forward. With the recent success of the uncrewed A...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivating Place listeners! Maria Popova is the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known a...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Night Launch of Apollo 17, December 7, 1972(NASA)
Blue Dot's Apollo@50 series nears its conclusion with part one of our look back at the final lunar mission, Apollo 17. The final of three spectacul...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This week – we visit and learn from gardeners past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian, author, and...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Mag...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave talks to the three winners, out of 14, 000 entrants for the Young Engineers/NASA Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest. Austin Pritts, Taia Saurer an...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
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Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and author of: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, A Memoir of Coming Home to My...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Blue Dot spotlights the amazing career of one of America's greatest space scientists, Ed Stone. Stone was the Project Scientist for the Voyager mis...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
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