RadioWest
Public Radio
KUER’s award-winning interview show explores the world through deep thinkers who host Doug Fabrizio asks to think even deeper. Join writers, filmmakers, scientists and others on RadioWest: A show for the wildly curious.
Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Description:
KUER’s award-winning interview show explores the world through deep thinkers who host Doug Fabrizio asks to think even deeper. Join writers, filmmakers, scientists and others on RadioWest: A show for the wildly curious.
Language:
English
Website:
http://radiowest.org
Email:
radiowest@kuer.org
Episodes
A History of Utah Pride
6/2/2023
Today, we’re talking about the history of the LGBTQ+ experience in Utah. At the beginning of Utah’s statehood, it was common for people of the same gender to live together. Think of groups of women in polygamist households or scores of men living together on ranches. So, did anyone question these groups’ sexuality?
Duration:00:47:38
John Vaillant On The Personality Of Fire
6/1/2023
If you’ve been following the news, you’ll know that Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are currently burning. But this area of Canada, located just above the Northeastern U.S., is not one of North America’s hot, dry, fire prone areas.
Duration:00:49:24
Toby Wilkinson on Egypt’s King of Kings
5/26/2023
The first known peace treaty was negotiated by Ramesses II, a pharaoh who came from a line of commoners and was the only Egyptian king known as “the Great”.
Duration:00:49:48
Latino History in Utah with Professor Armando Solorzano
5/26/2023
Armando Solorzano, a professor at the University of Utah, says the time has come for Latino-American Utahns to reclaim their history and regain a sense of belonging to this state.
Duration:00:49:40
Little Moon Sits at the Tiny Desk
5/19/2023
In 2008, NPR Music created the Tiny Desk concerts — a video series of live concerts performed at the desk of “All Songs Considered” host Bob Boilen. What began as a simple and intimate performance has turned into somewhat of a “cult following.”
Duration:00:49:20
Timothy Egan on the KKK’s Plot to Take Over America
5/18/2023
At the height of its power, the Ku Klux Klan was run by a depraved charlatan named D. C. Stephenson, until a woman's deathbed confession brought him down.
Duration:00:49:20
Radio Hour Episode 16: ‘The Case of the Missing Dog’
5/12/2023
Plan-B Theatre and “RadioWest” are back with a new hour of live radio: a world premiere by Brandan Ngo, “The Case of the Missing Dog.”
Duration:00:46:00
A Conversation with Heather Armstrong
5/11/2023
On Tuesday, Heather Armstrong died by suicide after a lifetime struggle with depression.
Duration:00:49:50
Rethinking John Wayne
5/5/2023
43 years after his death, John Wayne is still among America’s most popular and revered movie stars. Today, we’re talking about his life, roles and legacy.
Duration:00:53:00
Kelsy Burke on America’s Pornography Obsession
5/4/2023
In 2016, Utah Republicans declared pornography a public health crisis. But their resolution was merely a modern salvo in the ongoing pornography wars.
Duration:00:53:00
The Undelivered Great Speeches
4/28/2023
Have you ever wondered what Hillary Clinton might’ve said if she’d become president? Actually, you can know — by reading her speech that was never delivered.
Duration:00:53:00
Lori Daybell and 'Doomsday' Beliefs
4/27/2023
The trial of Lori Vallow Daybell is underway in Idaho and it is bringing attention to her “doomsday” religious beliefs. This week we are revisiting our conversation with the author Leah Sottile, who wrote about Daybell in her book: “When the Moon Turns to Blood”.
Duration:00:53:06
Web Extra: NPR's A Martínez on the Future of Public Radio
4/27/2023
When A Martínez got his first job in public radio in 2012, he was already well into a very successful radio career. He also knew nothing about public radio or the public radio world. So, how did he end up here?
Duration:00:52:54
Web Extra: Wes Anderson and “The Royal Tenenbaums”
4/24/2023
Wes Anderson’s films are among the most stylistically recognizable in American cinema. And “The Royal Tenenbaums” is among his most lauded.
Duration:00:37:00
What the Bible Does — and Doesn’t — Say
4/21/2023
Dan McClellan is a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who oversaw scripture translations at the Church for years. Dan Beecher is an ex-Mormon and an atheist. Together, they host a podcast about the Bible.
Duration:00:53:00
Claire Dederer on Reckoning with the Great Art of Bad People
4/20/2023
Is it okay to consume — even to love — the art created by people who’ve done terrible things? What are the ethics of making a choice like that?
Duration:00:53:00
The Utah Floods of 1983 — And 2023
4/14/2023
It was spring of 1983, Utah skiers were happy, snowpack was at a record high and temperatures kept it there well into May. Until it didn’t. Sound familiar?
Duration:00:52:48
John Hendrickson’s ‘Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter’
4/13/2023
In 2019, “Atlantic” writer and editor John Hendrickson wrote a piece about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s struggle with stuttering. It forced Hendrickson to reconcile with his own stutter, too.
Duration:00:53:00
The History of Juanita Brooks' History of Mountain Meadows Massacre
4/12/2023
For nearly a century, the murder of 120 emigrants by Mormon militiamen at Mountain Meadows in early September, 1857, existed as little more than whispers around Utah. Then a rural housewife and writer named Juanita Brooks dared to tread where others had long feared to and write the first history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Duration:00:52:04
Pico Iyer's Search For Paradise
4/6/2023
Religions and myths tell us of paradise — where there is no suffering and bliss abounds. But can a real paradise ever be reached or made?
Duration:00:53:00