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 Laura Ekasetya. All rights reserved.
Having just moved across the seasonal threshold of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we continue our focus on land and ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave talks to NASA's Jason Derleth, the executive in charge of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program about some future proposals that are b...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month, one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two thresholds, this ...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dave talks to polar climate expert Jennifer Francis about the hows and whys of the north polar region's dramatic warming is affecting weather here ...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Courtesy of The Maidu Summit Consortium
As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in the balance...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Photos courtesy of Niki Jabbour - all rights reserved.
It’s the first week of March and true spring let alone summer is still a ways off for many of us. This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave investigates two very different but interrelated topics: the deep freeze that sent the power grid in Texas into near collapse and how our citi...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Cultivating Place, we’re back stateside to visit with a longtime gardener and garden writer also engaged in a new level of relationshi...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Hokkaido, a northern Island of Japan to celebrate an amazing intertwining of the wild and cul...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
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Life long amateur astronomer Dave Schlom is joined by professional astronomer Emily Levesque to talk about her recently published book: The Last St...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2