Today we have a special program — the first issue of Great Tape, an audio magazine from KZMU News. We’re telling personal stories of the West and providing audio snapshots of what it’s like to live and work here — all in the creative spirit of an alternative weekly (except it won’t be weekly, at least not yet).

Every show will have a different theme which we’ll explore in a bunch of ways. And our first theme is “Off to the Races.”

In this episode we jump from one daily race to another in Moab — following a baker, newspaper editor, delivery man and nursing-home resident. We also have stories about political races, the race to exterminate an invasive plant and the race to put goods on our shelves. And we have fiction and music! We have a radio drama about Moab’s only Uber driver, an excerpt from a book about discovering the West and a song about deep time and the imperceptible natural rhythms of our environment.

Contributors were Marlow Mewborn, Emily Arnsten, Veronica Verdin, Lauren Carmona, Brian Laidlaw and The Family Trade.

Featured interviews include John Schwoger, Curt Brewer, Jamison Wiggins, Doug McMurdo, Randall Lewis, Liz Ballenger, Kya Marienfeld, Izzi Weimholt, AJ Long, Victor Beltran, Raymond Munson, Joel Swett and Marge Logan.

Original art was created by Veronica Verdin.

See detailed show notes here:

https://www.kzmu.org/great-tape-off-to-the-races/