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This episode features two guests who are journalists by trade, that forged a path as stewards of Midwestern storytelling. Meet James Norton, the ed...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 54:01
This show is the second and final episode in our series about unique agricultural and food education programs based in the Midwest. We will return ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 54:01
Get to know two women with a connection to the Midwest who are both are blazing a trail in their own unique way. Mary Pellettieri, founder of Top N...
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 54:03
This episode is all about cookbooks that celebrate the flavors and culture of the Midwest. Paul Fehribach joins the show to discuss his new cookboo...
- Added: Mar 05, 2024
- Length: 54:04
This week, the show travels to Kansas to explore some hidden cultural gems in the state. We head to Heartland Farm, a retreat founded 35 years ago ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 54:03
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History ...
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- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This week we're checking out some fun and unique food festivals in Nebraska and Kansas. Local fairs and festivals have great value to small communi...
- Added: Oct 05, 2023
- Length: 54:04
Critic Eric Deggans says TV offers him a wide canvas for engaging with culture, and comedian Sara Schaefer decides Twitter isn’t the best place to ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 51:59
Meet two women who are culinary stars in the Midwest and have made a name for themselves nationwide. Grace Goudie, who competed on Chopped in 2022,...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 54:06
It was a summer day when Nancy and Kim found out they could get married. They both had other plans for lunch, so they waited till 3. Stories of lov...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 52:32
A lot of people who’ve quit jobs lately thought they were sticking it to the man. But their employers - and coworkers - apparently didn’t realize. ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 52:31
Scholar and writer Ava Tomasula y Garcia tells the story of the Calumet Region, how the gas boom started with a bang, brought major industry and ne...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 52:29
A conversation with novelist Jacinda Townsend about her new novel, which tackles the subject of motherhood from two perspectives on different sides...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 52:00
Marissa Gencarelli is the co-founder of Yoli Tortilleria in Kansas City where they make tortillas using traditional Mexican methods. Damarr Brown i...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 54:04
Three stories. One about the challenges of accessing books in prison. One about how overlooking a neighborhood’s history has affected the place. On...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 52:00
Writer and teacher Michael Martone on fiction without narrative, teaching without grades, and writing about Indiana beyond corn, basketball, and su...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 52:02
Abra Bush, the new dean of the Jacobs School of Music, says conservatories are going to have to go beyond the Western canon to stay relevant to up-...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 52:30
Jack was studying vocal performance when he met Seigen at the local Zen center. They became good friends. They took walks, stopping to look at ever...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 52:31
Philosopher Susan Neiman on why the left should be wary of wokeness, how Germany’s reckoning with its past has become more complicated, and why the...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 52:30
Two stories about people using art to remember the past and, ideally, change something in the present.
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:31
Hector wants to run the best wastewater treatment plant in the country. He seems to be inspiring the people he works with in that direction, too. T...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:28
This week, producer Avraham Forrest finds Welcome to Night Vale co-creator Jeffrey Cranor in a radio, and ascends to another plane of existence. Bu...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:31
Leah Johnson writes romance novels. But not THAT kind. She writes award-winning YA books for queer Black kids and others. We talked about drag show...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:30
Parapraxis is a new magazine that examines the psychic mechanisms of our social lives. This week, a conversation with its founding editor, Hannah Z...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:00
There's a meadow in eastern Kentucky where people sometimes hunt mushrooms, get married, attend a music festival. Something that's not happening? T...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:33
