Talking to Trees

Guest: William Bryant Logan, faculty of New York Botanical Gardens, author of multiple books, his newest bfdseing, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees.

The act of pruning trees to both care for them and benefit from them is being lost. Pollarding and other related practices used to provide us with the means to make living fences, diversify our forests and feed our families without simple destroying the trees. A return to these principles might just remind us of what our relationship with our world shoud really be like.

 

The Wonder of Trees (Originally Aired on: September 3, 2019)

Guest: Mike Rutter, Adjunct Professor, English, Brigham Young University, and nature photographer

Why you need to try looking at the world like a tree. Also the smell of rattlesnakes and how bears measure the competition.

 

Orson Welles's Media Myths

Guest: Michael Socolow, Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Maine

The infamous War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938 never was the mass hysteria the history books tell.

 

Citizen Kane

Guest: Harlan Lebo, Author of Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey

The production of Citizen Kane, long recognized as one of the greatest films ever made, has a story as interesting and convoluted as the movie itself.