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Constant Wonder - A Family Crosses the Color Line

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Her family had to swear on paper to be entirely white in order to have civil rights. Rachel Webster, recalibrates everything she thought she knew a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP

Constant Wonder - My Father's Brain: A Doctor Reckons With Alzheimer's

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

A brilliant scientist starts exhibiting erratic behavior in this poignant father son story. It's our latest episode of Constant Wonder.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Constant Wonder - Getting Giddy in the Quiet World of Plants

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

He's not easily deterred, but this day of bug bites and fog almost got the best of him. Mike Dilger tries to hunt down 1,000 flowering plants on th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Top of Mind - Facing the Rising Flood Problem in America

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Floods are the most destructive natural disasters in the United States. Their damage is also the most preventable.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMXT

Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.

Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

Constant Wonder - Glimmers of Awe: The Fascinating World of Fireflies

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Facing the loss of her cabin in the Smokies, Lynn Faust began to pay more attention to the synchronous fireflies there, sparking a lifelong passion.

Constant Wonder - Love and Loss and Elephants

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

How a stylish Parisienne came to be the owner of an elephant and rhino sanctuary in South Africa.

Constant Wonder - One Man's Quest to Restore A Beloved American Tree

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Meet the people who lived under, built with, and were fed by the great American chestnut tree. Also, meet those determined to save it.

Bought by WVTF

Constant Wonder - Shared Solitude: The Life-Changing Epiphanies of a Children's Writer

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Before he became an acclaimed children's writer, Douglas Wood often felt like a failure. A letter from a famous wilderness guru changed all that.

Constant Wonder - Freediver Welcomes All to a World of Wonder

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Raised in landlocked Soweto, South Africa, this Black woman's first ocean dive felt like coming home. She wants all to feel welcome beneath the waves.

Constant Wonder - Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

What can turtles teach us about what it means to be human?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Constant Wonder - Owls and Awe

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

A conservationist rescues an owl, who, five years later, still calls to and visits him in his backyard.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Constant Wonder - A Normal Childhood with Down Syndrome

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

An anthropology professor makes unexpected discoveries about his profession and himself when his second child is born with Down Syndrome.

Constant Wonder - Snorkeling Right in Your Own Backyard

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Is snorkeling just for a tropical vacation? Well, Keith Williams wants people to look into their local freshwater, literally look into that water w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Top of Mind - Why We Take Water for Granted – But Really Shouldn’t

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

It’s easy to take clean water for granted in America. But drought and decaying pipes mean it’s time to think differently about H2O.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KMXT, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Constant Wonder - The Next Everest

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Imagine being caught in an earthquake on Mount Everest!

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Constant Wonder - Saving Wild Sounds

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

David Haskell is one of the world's most attentive listener's to nature. You'll want to hear what he's hearing, on our next episode.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Constant Wonder - Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

A belief in elves–or in the possibility of elves–could change the way we care for our planet.

Bought by KUHF, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP

Constant Wonder - Eat, Poop, Die

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

The island of Surtsey is a compelling example of the way that animals distribute nutrients around the globe through their poop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

The House, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan

Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

Constant Wonder - Compassion in the Aftermath: Recovering from Horrific Hallucinations

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

When gathering accurate descriptions of the world is crucial to your work, how do you navigate a reality full of hallucinations?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP

Constant Wonder - Book of Delights

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.

Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Constant Wonder - Changing the Face of Ballet

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Constant Wonder - Death-Defying Botanists Brave the Colorado

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

How a pair of courageous botanists became the first women to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP

Constant Wonder - A Humble Farmer Walks the Globe and Meets the World's Elite

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder

By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida

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