Overview
129 Episodes
Charles Bowden reading an excerpt from "Blood Orchid"
Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2025
This story is four interviews, with neighbors and friends, about the current political situation in the United States. I was feeling fairly frazzled and wanted to talk to other people about how they felt, so I started close to home.The photo above is an original silk screen by Leia Bell, for sale at Ken Sanders’ Rare Books in Salt Lake City, Utah.I plan to keep posting stories for a while, so if you’d like to donate please press this button: Donate
Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2025
Reports from the Sonoran Desert, sixty miles south of Tucson, in March of 2005.
Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025
Swim lessons at the Sandwich Aquatic Center in Sandwich, New Hampshire.
Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025
A radio play about how we, as a culture, deal with death and dying.
Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025
A canoe trip down the Green River, from the top in Wyoming to the confluence with the Colorado River in southern Utah.
Published: 22 February 2025
A cultural history of the Great Salt Lake Desert.
Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025
Testing my brother's theory of human evolution by trying to run down a pronghorn antelope in Wyoming.
Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025
About being afraid to criticize Israel.
Transcribed - Published: 4 January 2025
Dr. Nizam Mamode describes his experiences while volunteering at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza last August and September.
Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2024
My take on what happened in the election.
Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024
A short essay on what I know about fascism.
Transcribed - Published: 2 November 2024
I wrote this after I got back home Wednesday night, but it took a few days to get it posted. Thanks very much for your support.
Transcribed - Published: 27 October 2024
An Interview with Dr. Edward Alam, professor of philosophy and theology at Notre Dame University in Lebanon.
Transcribed - Published: 21 October 2024
Four more interviews with people on the street in Beirut.
Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024
An interview with Yehya Youness, owner of Electrip, an electric scooter company in Beirut.
Transcribed - Published: 13 October 2024
I lifted this image from a L’Orient Today story. I made a mistake about the date. I meant Friday, October 11th. This is a short piece recorded in my hotel room following last night’s bombing in Central Beirut. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024
A family camping out along the beach in Beirut to avoid being bombed in their home. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2024
A photo-journalist's account of the first days of the war in Ukraine.
Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2022
I'm going to take a break for awhile, at least until the pandemic is over. Thanks very much for your support and letters. I will be back with more stories soon.
Transcribed - Published: 8 February 2021
Alan Chin describes what it was like at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.
Transcribed - Published: 11 January 2021
Part Two of a trip across the country two months before the 2020 election.
Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2020
Interviews from a road trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2020
The seventh and final report from a long trip across the country before the 2020 Presidential Election.
Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2020
The sixth report from a long trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 5 October 2020
The fifth report from a long trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2020
The fourth report from a long trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 22 September 2020
Third report from a long road trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2020
Second report from a long trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 14 September 2020
A new series of reports from a long trip across the country.
Transcribed - Published: 8 September 2020
I went fishing in some beautiful mountains I first visited in 1968 when I was a Boy Scout. When I was older, we took our kids there so they could see it as well. It’s still very beautiful, but things have changed due to global warming.
Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2020
My thinking is off, my approach is wrong...time to go fishing.
Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2020
I recorded these interviews with my family two weeks ago, before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Now they seem unimportant, like from another era. Except that in my family it’s the younger folk who have been mostly fucked by the virus pandemic, and it’s been young people, mostly, who’ve been out on the streets protesting. I hope their efforts lead to real change in our society. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2020
Following the news is like watching a competition for the worst case scenario and I’ve grown weary of all the blaming and shaming. Now we can’t trust anyone, not even ourselves. But at some point we’re going to have to come together in order to survive. I’m working on a story where I interview people in my family about how they’re coping with the pandemic. Not everyone is doing well, and it’s pretty emotional for me, so I need to take some more time putting it together. In the meantime, thanks very much for your support.A link to an excellent documentary about Alex Caldiero. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2020
It seems more of us are paying attention to our neighborhoods lately, so perhaps this is a good time to replay this story, produced in 1988. I still live in the same neighborhood, but it feels different now. It’s like there was a tall tree in my front yard but now the tree is gone and only a stump remains. I am stumped. I used to depend on trust—standing or sitting close to strangers and holding a microphone less than a foot from their faces. Now that’s not going to happen again for a while. In the meantime, here’s to remembering the good old days. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2020
My friend Trent Harris has a problem caused by the coronavirus. It’s not a big problem compared to a lot of other things that have come up recently, like the possible collapse of the economy and thousands of people dying. Trent’s problem is more like a temporary embarrassment. Basically, his reputation is on the line. Donate Swackhamma tells Harvey a secret. Echo People Episode One on You Tube.Echo People Episode Two on You Tube.Trent Harris’ website is called the Echo Cave.Here’s the This American Life episode about Trent’s film, the Beaver Triology. The cast and crew of Echo People, with Mystery Mountain in the background. Harvey Harris upon seeing Mystery Mountain. Trent Harris wondering what he has done.
Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2020
Shana from Achterarder, Scotland. My friend Erica Heilman has a podcast called Rumblestrip. She drives around Vermont and talks to people about their lives. Last week she was sitting at home, like everybody, trying to figure out what to do, and she decided to ask her listeners to send her audio recordings of what and how they’re doing under self isolation. A lot of people responded, quickly, and within a couple days Erica posted the first episode of a series she’s calling Our Show. If you’d like to send Erica an audio recording of what’s happening where you are, here’s the email address: [email protected] websiteThe song at the end is Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen, performed by The Band. Donate Looking out Erica Heilman’s apartment in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Recording ambience from Erica Heilman’s window in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2020
This story was originally broadcast on All Things Considered in 1993. The ground was shifting under my feet back then and I had to figure out what to do. Now it’s shifting again, this time everybody’s in it together. There are things we can do, stories to tell, that can make us feel better. Thanks for listening and supporting this show. Donate
Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2020
Adrienne Kinne just after basic training in 1994. Adrienne Kinne, 2020 I should confess that I have a personal interest in listening to veterans talk about how they recover from war. I was never in the military, but I spent some time overseas as a war correspondent for Esquire, Harper’s, and Mother Jones magazines. I was never in a battle or close to a bomb going off. I saw the aftermath—bodies on the ground, neighborhoods turned to rubble, people silent and in shock. The main thing I have to deal with is knowing that a couple times people who were helping me with my stories were punished, severely, after I left. I got to fly home to America and they had to stay there and suffer the consequences for helping me. I carry this guilt. So when veterans speak of their experiences recovering from war I listen very carefully.Check out the Veterans for Peace website.Here’s a link to Doug Peacock’s website. And a link to Save the Yellowstone Grizzly.And the link to the video of Brandi Carlile performing live on KEXP. Donate Douglas Peacock in 1967 Douglas Peacock south of Ajo, Arizona, 2020
Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2020
Elliott Woods as a soldier in Iraq, 2004 Today I have a conversation with Elliott Woods, a veteran who is also a very fine writer. He served a year as a combat engineer in northern Iraq. Then he came home and went to school at the University of Virginia, graduating with a degree in English literature. He thought about staying in school and becoming a professor, but he decided he wanted to go back to war, this time as a journalist.Check out Elliott’s website. Donate Elliott Woods as a journalist in Afghanistan, 2009 Elliott Woods at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, 2019
Transcribed - Published: 12 February 2020
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