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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203 Pieces

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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283 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.


Latest Pieces

Caption: Photo courtesy of Rebecca Schiller, all rights reserved.
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
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Zepherine - Zee – Hanson is an Air Force Veteran who after 8 years serving as a military photo-journalist took a medical retirement in 2004. As par...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave gets to talk about one of his most favorite things in life: dogs. British Author Jules Howard joins the host of Blue Dot to talk about his lat...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are chorophyll...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with one of the true heroes of environmental activism in the U.S. and the world -- Bill McKibben. His 1989 book, The End of Nature, McK...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a historic ho...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave is joined by Clare Fieseler, the co author of a new National Geographic kids book, No Boundaries: 25 Women Scientists and Explorers share Adve...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Photo by Ian Hughes, courtesy of Louesa Roebuck, all rights reserved.
Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead, we are entering into the season of gratitude - running from now through the W...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with Oxford University climate scientist Tim Woollings about his book, Jet Stream: a Journey through our Changing Climate. The jet stre...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1