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    Welcome to the 20th year of Radio Curious, half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics about life and ideas. All of the almost 400 half-hour archive editions on our website are free for you to enjoy, download, copy, share or rebroadcast as you wish. Please give credit to Radio Curious and let us know what you like about the program. www.radiocurious.org
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    Tom Allman- “The Sheriff and Marijuana”

    Tom Allman- “The Sheriff and Marijuana”
    Click here to begin listening. This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, and likely many other places throughout the world, to some with pleasure and to others with distaste. Nonetheless it doesn’t seem that marijuana will go away. […]
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    Golden, Kevin Z. — “Lawsuit to Ban Genetically Modified Alfalfa”

    Golden, Kevin Z. — “Lawsuit to Ban Genetically Modified Alfalfa”
    Click here to begin listening. This program was originally broadcast May 7, 2007. The consequences of growing genetically modified alfalfa were deteremined by the United States District Court in San Francisco, California to be so uncertain and so potentially dangerous that they were outlawed nation-wide in litigation brought by the Center for Food Safety based […]
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    Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch – “Reading Body Language”

    Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch – “Reading Body Language”
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words or see certain images? Many of these body movements are involuntary reactions inherent to the individual or culturally based. “I Can Read You Like […]
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    Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman – “Brothels of Calcutta, India”

    Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman – “Brothels of Calcutta, India”
    Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: March 15, 2007 Born Into Brothels “Born into Brothels” received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, “Born into Brothels” is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light […]
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    Stephen Most – “The Klamath River”

    Stephen Most – “The Klamath River”
    Originally Broadcast: March 21, 2007 Click here to begin listening. River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Klamath River and it tributaries in the northwest corner of California and the coast of southern Oregon. Many people […]
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    Eunice Lipton – “Seduced by France”

    Eunice Lipton – “Seduced by France”
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: March 28, 2007 French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love, sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia and death, Eunice Lipton, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, describes her […]
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    Roger Brandt – “The Oregon Caves”

    Roger Brandt – “The Oregon Caves”
    Click here to begin listening. This program was originally broadcast on February 21, 2007. The Oregon Caves, located about 70 miles northeast of Crescent City, California in the Oregon Caves National Monument, are a place full of interest, mystery, and history. The caves were located in 1874 when Elijah Davidson chased his dog into the […]
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    Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – “Music On The Brain” Part 2

    Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – “Music On The Brain” Part 2
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experience music and why it plays a unique role in our lives is this topic of two interviews with Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of, “This Is Your […]
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    Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – “Music On The Brain” Part 1

    Dr. Daniel J. Levitin – “Music On The Brain” Part 1
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experience music and why it plays a unique role in our lives is this topic of two interviews with Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of, “This Is Your […]
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    Keith Faulder and Steven Antler –”A Lawsuit To Be District Attorney”

    Keith Faulder and Steven Antler –”A Lawsuit To Be District Attorney”
    Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: November 29, 2006 After District Attorney Norm Vroman died in September, 2006, and his name could not removed from the ballot, Keith Faulder, the interim DA appointed by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, sued the County seeking to void the November 8, 2006 general election for DA […]
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    Michael Gurian– “A Look at The Wonder of Boys, Ten Years Later”

    Michael Gurian– “A Look at The Wonder of Boys, Ten Years Later”
    Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: October 10, 2006 The Wonder of Boys, 10th Anniversary Edition We explored the difficulties that boys have growing up in American society ten years ago, in a two-part interview with Michael Gurian, author of, “The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators can do to Shape Boys […]
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    Anthony Arthur– “Changing America: Upton Sinclair Style”

    Anthony Arthur– “Changing America: Upton Sinclair Style”
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: September 6, 2006 Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair Since I was young, I have been intrigued by the work of Upton Sinclair. I remember as a boy hearing about Sinclair’s books and efforts to change the world. A close friend of my family was the writer for Sinclair’s campaign […]
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    Holly Hollenbeck- “Sex Lives of Wives”

    Holly Hollenbeck- “Sex Lives of Wives”
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: September 20, 2006. How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of, “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Confessions and Provocative Advice […]
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    Martha McCabe– “Culture and Racism”

    Martha McCabe– “Culture and Racism”
    Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: August 2, 2006 Praise At Midnight Life, culture and racism are the topics of this edition of Radio Curious, in conversation with attorney/novelist Martha McCabe, author of, “Praise at Midnight.” Martha McCabe worked as a civil rights and criminal trial lawyer in deep east Texas from 1974 to […]
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    Paul Goldstein – “The Artist’s Right of Ownership”

    Paul Goldstein – “The Artist’s Right of Ownership”
    Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is the authorship? These and other issues of intellectual property rights begin to be revealed in, “Errors and Omissions,” a novel by Stanford Law […]
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    Bruce Patterson – “Old Time Tales of Anderson Valley”

    Bruce Patterson – “Old Time Tales of Anderson Valley”
    Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: August 30, 2006 Walking Tractor And Other Tales of Old Anderson Valley Stories of the days that no longer exist in rural areas tell us how things were, how people worked, lived and played, and bring to life conditions that most of us never knew existed. “Walking Tractor and […]
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    enOctober 27, 2023