Judy Collins played to a big audience at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, Judy sat down with Vanessa to talk about life and music and living well, well beyond the so-called "prime of life.

Peter Orner, an acclaimed writer of fiction, explores the power of reading in a series of essays and intimate stories that meld his life and writing with that of other writers, collected in the book Still No Word From You.

Wendy Tanner is working with some friends to build a regular swing and Lindy Hop scene in the Rogue Valley, with the Ashland Lindy Swing Society.

SOU offers bachelor's degrees in Music Industry & Production Studies Derek Keller, an assistant professor at SOU, visits with details of the program and its components.

Annie Duke holds the exotic-sounding occupational title of ""decision-making strategist,"" and she shares some of her knowledge in a new book, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.

Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, assembled several podcasts for this election season. This one deals with the four statewide issues, Ballot Measures 111 through 114.

The latest State of the Birds report. Ashland-based Klamath Bird Observatory plays a role in the collection and use of the bird data in the report, and KBO Executive Director John Alexander visits with news of the overall picture.

The confusion about the Klamath Mountains and their location and ecosystems figures prominently in the creation of “The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.” A roster of writers who know the Klamaths well make contributions about the mountains, the animals, the plants, and more. Editors Justin Garwood and Michael Kauffmann oversaw the effort.

Physician and Pulitzer-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us down to that level of existence for his latest book The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human.

Monthly Savor segment, with Lisa Rose, an herbalist skilled in finding food that people did not grow deliberately. She wrote a book on the subject, "The Urban Forager."