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RadioWest commemorated its 20th anniversary this week with a live show celebrating the human voice. If you couldn’t join us, don’t worry — we recorded the…
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Plan-B Theatre and RadioWest are back with a new hour of live radio theatre! Please join us for Utah-based playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett's adaptation of…
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In 1906, an earthquake destroyed scientist David Starr Jordan’s collection of newly discovered fish. His life’s work was utterly ruined. And yet he tried,…
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If trees could speak to us, what might they say? In The Overstory, 2019’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Richard Powers, a tree tells a woman, “Your kind…
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Have you ever felt like an outsider, feeling that you don’t quite fit in with the group around you? That feeling, says science writer Olga Khazan, might…
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Take a breath. Like, right now. Did you use your nose or your mouth? Turns out, that matters.Journalist and author James Nestor is our guest this week.…
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One of Utah’s many oddities is its state bird: the California Gull. But did you know that the humble gull is the hero in its own miracle tale?This Friday,…
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Summer is usually a time of travel and exploration, but the age of COVID-19 has brought our adventures closer to home. Instead of traveling, many of us…
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In March, as the COVID-19 pandemic started sweeping the world, plague fiction soared onto bestseller lists, with Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague…
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We are not letting a pandemic get in the way of our favorite bi-annual show, even though, this time around, we won’t have the pleasure of seeing our…
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The writer Bill Buford wanted to learn the secrets of French haute cuisine. So, he went native. Buford and his family moved to Lyon, France, where he…
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In 1906, an earthquake destroyed scientist David Starr Jordan’s collection of newly discovered fish. His life’s work was utterly ruined. But he tried,…