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Through The Lens: 'Public Trust'
June 19, 2020 22:23 - 50 minutes - 2.96 KBWhat and who are America’s public lands for? We continue our monthly film series with a documentary that asks that question, and explores the precarious balance between enjoying and exploiting our shared spaces.
The Condemnation Of Blackness
June 19, 2020 00:05 - 48 minutes - 2.87 KBAs Black Lives Matter protesters continue to march throughout the country demanding changes to our police forces, we look back at history and ask: How did racial discrimination within our police forces start?
The Condemnation of Blackness
June 19, 2020 00:05 - 48 minutes - 2.87 KBAs Black Lives Matter protesters continue to march throughout the country demanding changes to our police forces, we look back at history and ask: How did racial discrimination within our police forces start?
Jeff Metcalf's "Requiem for the Living"
June 12, 2020 22:00 - 52 minutes - 3.05 KBAfter a long, valiant and inspiring battle with prostate cancer, the writer and teacher Jeff Metcalf died Friday, June 12, 2020. He was a great friend of the show. In 2014, he joined us to talk about his memoir, Requiem for the Living, about his fight to stay alive. Jeff's vivacity and humor were infectious, his determination was uplifting, and his kindness was a blessing to all he met. He will be dearly missed by our community.
Mormonism And White Supremacy
June 12, 2020 05:12 - 51 minutes - 3.01 KBIn a time when America is taking a hard look at our country’s racist past and present, LDS scholar Joanna Brooks looks at the history of race within the LDS church.
What Defunding The SLC Police Could Mean
June 11, 2020 23:08 - 51 minutes - 3.01 KBIn the wake of the death of George Floyd, protestors across the country have been pushing to defund the police. The same demands can be heard in Utah, and they’re only getting louder.
Ibram X. Kendi: How To Be An Antiracist
June 05, 2020 23:16 - 50 minutes - 2.97 KBFor the historian Ibram X. Kendi, the death of George Floyd while in police custody is yet another story in the long nightmare of the black experience in America.
Women In The Workplace
June 05, 2020 23:15 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBPicture your workplace team, church council, community group or any other small collection of people: What’s the gender makeup? If the group has more men than women, there’s a good chance that the women do not speak up as much as the men.
George Packer And American Exceptionalism
May 30, 2020 05:50 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBGeorge Packer is one of those few writers whose byline alone is often enough to convince people to click on his articles.
How Albert Camus Gave Us ‘The Plague’
May 29, 2020 22:38 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBIn March, as the COVID-19 pandemic started sweeping the world, plague fiction soared onto bestseller lists, with Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague leading the pack.
Conspiracy Theories And The Rise Of QAnon
May 23, 2020 01:00 - 51 minutes - 3.01 KBOn December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch took an assault rifle into a Washington, D.C., pizza joint and fired three times. Why? He believed there was a secret pedophilia ring in the basement run by Hilary Clinton.
2020 Summer Books Show
May 22, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBWe 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 studio filled with books and book people.
Bill Buford's French Odyssey
May 15, 2020 17:00 - 51 minutes - 3.01 KBThe 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 undertook a rigorous, enlightening and delectable education.
Dr. Angela Dunn's Passion For Public Health
May 14, 2020 22:12 - 48 minutes - 2.82 KBDue in large part to her daily press briefings, Dr. Angela Dunn has emerged as the face of Utah’s efforts to manage the coronavirus pandemic in the state. But until a few months ago, our state epidemiologist was largely unknown to the public.
Discrimination Against Asian Americans
May 08, 2020 21:56 - 46 minutes - 2.71 KBAsian Americans in the United States are no strangers to racism. Just think of the Japanese internment camps of WWII. And racial slurs and stereotypes have dogged Asian Americans for years, too.
Through The Lens: 'Spaceship Earth'
May 08, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes - 3 KBDeep in the Arizona desert, there’s an enormous glass terrarium that houses a replica, in miniature, of the earth’s ecosystems. It’s called Biosphere 2.
Diane Rehm On 'When My Time Comes'
May 01, 2020 21:30 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBSince departing the public radio air waves in 2016, Diane Rehm has been on a crusade: campaigning for terminally ill patients’ right to determine their time of death — also known as the right-to-die movement.
Local News In Crisis Mode
May 01, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBThe news industry has been hard hit in recent years. The rise of online ads and then the Great Recession pushed newspapers into steep decline. Now, with the coronavirus crisis, industry observer Ken Doctor says news faces — gulp — “extinction.”
Special Segment: What Happens When There's No Newspaper?
May 01, 2020 00:59 - 17 minutes - 1.03 KBJones County, North Carolina is one of the over two hundred U.S. counties with no local newspaper – what researchers call a news desert .
A Fish Story
April 24, 2020 22:15 - 50 minutes - 2.93 KBIn 1906, an earthquake destroyed scientist David Starr Jordan’s collection of newly discovered fish. His life’s work was utterly ruined. But he tried, very literally, to put the pieces back together.
Why Are We Buying So Much Toilet Paper?
April 24, 2020 21:53 - 48 minutes - 2.85 KBHistory is full of moments when humans as a group react to difficult events. Now that we are a month into the coronavirus quarantine, we’re taking stock of our own reactions to this time.
Poetic Responses To Crisis
April 17, 2020 22:36 - 51 minutes - 3 KBIt's a show about the gift of poetry in difficult times.
The Joys Of Walking
April 17, 2020 03:47 - 49 minutes - 2.91 KBFor a society that is currently homebound, there seems no greater pleasure at this time than a simple walk. A month ago, we would go out to eat, to a concert or to see friends. These days, we walk the hills and our neighborhoods, the movement and outdoors our solace.
Plagues And The Fate Of Rome
April 11, 2020 01:02 - 49 minutes - 2.93 KBWe know we’re not the first civilization to face a paralyzing pandemic – the history of plagues and pandemics is a long one when you look back over time.
Disturbance And Recovery
April 10, 2020 23:40 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBIn 2015, ecologist Nalini Nadkarni fell 50 feet from the top of a tree. As she fought to regain her strength over the next year, Nalini realized that due to her earlier research on a theory she termed “disturbance and recovery,” she had the tools she needed to help her get well.
Kingdom of Nauvoo
April 04, 2020 02:59 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBAs members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered for their semi-annual General Conference April 4-5, historian Benjamin E. Park shared the fascinating history of the city of Nauvoo, an LDS religious utopia situated on the banks of the Mississippi.
A Perfect Storm Of Learning
April 03, 2020 21:49 - 51 minutes - 3 KBIn mid-March, with the coronavirus crisis breaking in Utah, Governor Gary Herbert announced that all of Utah’s K-12 public schools would close and learning would go online. That’s 1,200 schools closed.
Special Segment: Air Pollution And COVID-19
March 27, 2020 00:46 - 12 minutes - 745 BytesIf you live in the Salt Lake area, you may have noticed that the air is a little clearer these days, with so few cars on the road due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
The History Of Heaven And Hell
March 27, 2020 00:09 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBAccording to a 2015 Pew research poll , a hefty percentage of Americans believe in a traditional Christian afterlife, with 72% of those polled stating they believe in heaven and 58% believing in hell.
The COVID-19 Shutdown On Our Mental Health
March 24, 2020 22:59 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBNot in recent memory has the question “How are you feeling” been asked by so many with such sincerity.
Brian Greene On ‘The End of Time’
March 20, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBTheoretical physicist Brian Greene has a very special talent: He can explain deeply complicated scientific principles in a way that makes them comprehensible to the layperson.
COVID-19 On Utah’s Economy And Well-Being
March 20, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutes - 2.95 KBWe’re talking about the impact of the coronavirus on Utah – our local businesses, arts organizations, neighbors and friends. How are we coping?
2020 Legislative Session Wrap-Up
March 12, 2020 22:40 - 49 minutes - 2.89 KBLawmakers wrapped the 2020 Utah legislative session at the stroke of midnight on Thursday. Friday morning, we're looking back at the past 45 days to discuss what did – and didn’t – happen on Capitol Hill this year.
'The Anarchy' Of The East India Company
March 12, 2020 22:40 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBIt was an international corporation that became an eighteenth century colonial power with its own army – and all entirely run by British stockholders who reported to a board of directors in London, most of whom had never been to India.
The Coronavirus Vs. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
March 06, 2020 23:13 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBIn his recent article for The Atlantic , Dr. Jeremy Brown, author of Influenza: The 100-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, wrote : “ If the terrible influenza pandemic of 1918 and the current coronavirus outbreak share one feature, it is this: People are terribly afraid.”
Writer Ben Fountain On Our ‘Third Existential Crisis’
March 06, 2020 23:04 - 50 minutes - 2.93 KBAs an essayist and novelist, writer Ben Fountain was an unlikely choice to pen a monthly column about the 2016 presidential election for the British newspaper, The Guardian . He’d never worked as a journalist, and although he’s passionate about U.S. politics, he had never written about a presidential election.
Decriminalizing Polygamy
February 29, 2020 00:14 - 49 minutes - 2.88 KBTo ensure statehood, Utah had to ban the practice of polygamy. But the laws against plural marriage are rarely enforced here, and a bill passed by lawmakers yesterday takes the extraordinary step of decriminalizing polygamy.
The Complications Of ‘Driving While Black’
February 28, 2020 22:38 - 51 minutes - 3 KBWe know that automobiles revolutionized life for the average white American in the early and mid-20th century, but for the African American population, cars brought freedoms, yes, but freedoms packed with complications.
Through The Lens: 'One Child Nation'
February 22, 2020 01:10 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBIt was a 36-year-long social experiment that led to horrible human rights violations, the effects of which will play out in China for years to come.
Confronting The Crisis Of Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women
February 22, 2020 01:08 - 52 minutes - 3.05 KBAwareness has grown in recent years about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This week, we’re talking about what we know about the problem, what we don’t know and what’s being done to address it.
150th Anniversary Of Utah Women's Suffrage
February 15, 2020 04:23 - 51 minutes - 3 KB150 years ago, on February 14, 1870, Salt Lake City resident Seraph Young and 25 other Utah women voted in a municipal election, becoming the first women in the country to vote under equal suffrage laws.
Kristen Richardson On The History Of Debutantes
February 14, 2020 23:00 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBHave you ever heard of the Texas Dip? It’s a wild curtsy you might see performed—or botched—at a debutante ball. Kristen Richardson calls it a magic trick. And, yes, debutantes are still a thing. They’re the subject of her new book The Season .
Remembering USF's Fred Adams
February 14, 2020 15:50 - 20 minutes - 1.2 KBBack in the early ’60s, Fred Adams had a dream. His dream was rooted in Cedar City, which at that time was home to more livestock than people, so the idea of starting a festival there devoted to the plays of William Shakespeare probably shouldn’t have worked. But Adams was a visionary. Through his persistence, tenacity, and his ability to inspire others, he built an annual event that grew and grew until eventually his dream became reality. Sadly, Adams died last week. As friends and family ga...
2020's Oscar Nominated Film Scores
February 07, 2020 19:00 - 50 minutes - 2.98 KBHow does a composer manipulate our feelings during a film scene? Edmund Stone, host of the radio program The Score , explains the magic of film scoring through this year’s Oscar nominated Best Original Musical Scores.
Utah Senator Mitt Romney's Break With Republicans
February 07, 2020 18:00 - 51 minutes - 3 KBPresident Trump was acquitted by the Senate this week on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vote would have run straight along party lines if not for a lone outlier: Utah Senator Mitt Romney.
Through The Lens: I Am Human
January 03, 2020 15:03 - 49 minutes - 2.92 KBIn the documentary I Am Human , filmmakers Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby follow three subjects whose brains are linked to machines, making them the world's first human cyborgs.
Wendy Wood On Good Habits, Bad Habits
January 03, 2020 01:42 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBIt’s the New Year and, if you’re anything like us, you’re thinking about at least a couple of things you’d like to change in your day-to-day habits. Researcher Wendy Wood says change isn’t about willpower, but rather tapping into our unconscious selves.
Dave Eggers’ Satirical ‘Captain and Glory’
December 27, 2019 02:16 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBWriter Dave Eggers has written scores of news articles about his time following Donald Trump on the campaign trail, but to help him make sense of what he has experienced, he turned to satire.
Dave Eggers' Satirical 'Captain And Glory'
December 27, 2019 02:16 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KBWriter Dave Eggers has written scores of news articles about his time following Donald Trump on the campaign trail, but to help him make sense of what he has experienced, he turned to satire.
Tan France On Why Fashion Matters And His Love For Salt Lake City
December 27, 2019 01:05 - 50 minutes - 2.93 KBQueer Eye's Tan France takes fashion seriously. It impacts how we carry ourselves and our self-esteem. He joined us this October to talk about growing up, why fashion matters, his love of Salt Lake City and everything else that makes him Naturally Tan . This show originally aired on Oct. 10, 2019.