Tidings with Hazel Kahan

Neil Leinwohl artist, retired ad agency creative director and disabled Vietnam vet talks about moving to AI after using older tools for art that he’s been making since he was 10 years old. (WPKN, Nov. 2, 2026)

Architect Hyder Ibrahim talks about the 5-year renovation of a shrine in Lahore, Pakistan dedicated to 7th century saint Lady Ruqaiyya, and the project’s significance for women, the local community and for him personally. (WPKN Sept. 7, 2026)

Farmer-artists Agathe Snow and Anthony Holbrooke talk about learning to grow mushrooms on their farm Mattituck Mushrooms, why they believe mushrooms can help feed the world and how they have integrated mushrooms into their art. (WPKN, August 27, 2026)

In this month’s Tidings episode Sam Bliss speaks to us from Vermont about Adam Wilson’s idea of food as gift and his own theory of non-market food practices. (WPKN, August 3, 2026)

Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is Aanchal Malhotra, speaking to us from Delhi in India. Aanchal is an oral historian and the author of a very beautiful book, Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a continent divided. It’s beautiful because of the wonderful photographs heading each of the 21 chapters, because of the writing and, beautiful perhaps most of all, for the idea of remnants—the objects carried by those fleeing from either side of the newly created border that partitioned India in 1947—and the power they have to tell a story we might not otherwise hear. (WPKN, July 6 and 22, 2026)

Thomas Little, North Carolina-based artist, writer, ink historian, ink and pigment maker, and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks, uses the lens of alchemy and magic to examine his own work of making ink from weapons dissolved in acid. (WPKN June 1, 2026)

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices so familiar to us in America today.  (WPKN May 4, 2026)

• Jeanne Malmgren, Nature-based psychotherapist and author whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?” 

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN March 2, 2026)

Brewster Kahle is founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia (Noam Cohen talked about Wikipedia in the December 2021 episode of Tidings). First broadcast on WPKN February 9, 2022.