The story of Laika, the Moscow mongrel turned cosmonaut, who was the first creature to orbit the earth. 

Music: Symphony No. 5 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. 

Laura Faley of Hidden Meadow Ranch in Mt. Vernon, WA talks about what it takes to successfully raise chickens within within cities and suburbs in the state of Washington.

Introduction by Kara Fox

Music: Symphony No. 6, by Ludwig van Beethoven, Skidmore College Orchestra.

Spotlighting the swing music in Everett Public Library's music collection.

Ron Averill is Mr. Neutron

The Lone Reader takes aim at Robert E. Ficken's Washington Territory:  the farce and fury, fields and forests, mud and mania as wild Washington passes the veil into statehood.

Music: "Missouri Waltz"

Alan gives "the treament" to 2018's documentary sensation Three Identical Strangers, wherein three identical boys separated at birth, unaware of each other's existence, coincidentally reunite in college.

Ron ruminates about his favorite 2018 PNW albums.

An audio review of Montana Women Homesteaders, edited by Sarah Carter, which tells the tragic story of the women that homesteaded alone in the desert conditions of early twentieth century Eastern Montana.

Alan cracks open Everett Public Library's Kanopy streaming video service, by focusing on "Ex Libris," Frederick Wiseman's brilliant documentary about one of America's great cultural treasures: The New York Public Library.

Mr. Neutron spotlights Birch Pereira, a laid-back, yet frenetic Seattle artist who, along with his band The Gin Joints, somehow spans the chasm separating Perry Como, Johnny Horton, Fats Waller, and Artie Shaw.

The Lone Reader examines Paul Taylor's The Next America, which lays bare the ineluctable calculus of near-future retirements funded by a shrinking workforce.