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Matt Fidler
ProducerMatt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
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Janisse Ray joins Cultivating Place this week to explore what it means to be devoted to place - in word, action, and spirit.
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Chico author Emily Gallo used her own experiences traveling to Ukraine with her son to pick up his baby, who was born to a surrogate, to fashion a suspenseful story about a mother and son who traveled to war-torn Ukraine.
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To learn more about these poets, click on their names.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with Dr. Joseph Parker, entomologist and beetle expert and head of the Parker Lab at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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This week we revisit a favorite conversation from the archive, “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year," with author and backyard tender and observer, Margaret Renkl.
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A retired literature professor and occupational therapist offer life advice based on their respective work.
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Blue Dot pays tribute to one of the most iconic photographs ever taken, Earthrise, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders on Christmas Eve, 1968.
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Frederick Livingston is the author of Trees are Bridges to the Sky, a collection of essays and poems exploring the human-climate connection.
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Chico author Paul Belz shares personal reflections and casual conversations about Chico’s crown jewel, Bidwell Park.