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
Whales of the High Desert
4/18/2024
In 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake.
Duration:00:36:10
Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air
4/17/2024
If you live in the Salt Lake Valley, you know a thing or two about air pollution. There are days when you can see it. But if you live on the west side it’s even worse.
Duration:00:49:14
Mere Beauty: Utah Symposium on Science and Literature
4/11/2024
If you got a poet, a neuroscientist and a theoretical physicist together to talk about beauty, what would they possibly have to say to each other?
Duration:00:50:04
Through the Lens: ‘Hotshot’
4/10/2024
Hotshots are the hardened individuals who fight wildfires. Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as you can be without becoming a hotshot yourself.
Duration:00:49:28
How the Ocean Works
4/4/2024
The oceanographer Helen Czerski wants you to think of the ocean as a vast, planet-spanning engine. And what it drives is no less than life itself.
Duration:00:49:35
Exploring Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’
4/3/2024
Ahead of the Salt Lake Film Society’s screening of the 1992 Clint Eastwood classic “Unforgiven,” we sit down to talk about this great Western.
Duration:00:52:20
The Debate Over Women's Empowerment in the LDS Church
3/28/2024
A recent post on the LDS Church’s official Instagram page has racked up thousands of comments, many from women who see a vast gulf between how empowered the church says they are, and how empowered they actually feel.
Duration:00:49:25
Is it Actually a Good Idea to Colonize Mars?
3/27/2024
Life on earth is for the dogs. There’s too much regulation, too few resources and it’s burning up besides. Better to pack up and leave for Mars. Or is it?
Duration:00:49:39
A History of Witchcraft in Thirteen Trials
3/21/2024
The scholar Marion Gibson is an expert on witches. Her latest book tells a centuries-long history through the stories of 13 witch trials.
Duration:00:48:52
Gardening along the (not so dry) Wasatch Front
3/20/2024
Utah is suffering from megadroughts, a dying lake (or two) and a dwindling Colorado River. So, why, then, are we watering so much Kentucky bluegrass along the Wasatch Front?
Duration:00:49:15
Podcast Extra: A Brief History of Polyamory in America
3/18/2024
Polyamory is having a bit of a moment right now. We wanted to learn more about the history of having more than one romantic partner.
Duration:00:44:00
The Serious Search for Alien Life
3/14/2024
UFOs undoubtedly exist. After all, people have been seeing inexplicable things in the skies for centuries. So, if the truth is out there, what does the government know about it?
Duration:00:49:30
Through the Lens: ‘Exposure’
3/13/2024
In 2018, a group of inexperienced explorers — all women — set out on a journey that lots of people thought they couldn’t possibly finish: a trek to the North Pole.
Duration:00:49:16
Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions
3/7/2024
According to one report, the LDS Church’s financial holdings are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And that raises the question: When is a church less about spirit and more about profit?
Duration:00:50:17
The Mastermind Behind Oil in the Uinta Basin
3/6/2024
Transporting oil out of the Uinta Basin isn’t easy. The place is remote and the roads aren’t great. But a Texas oil man named Jim Finley is trying to change all that.
Duration:00:49:01
The 2024 Utah Legislative Wrap-Up
3/1/2024
There is a new format for the Utah Legislative session — start with the most controversial bills up top. However, now that we near the end of the session, important bills are still in flux.
Duration:00:49:26
The Long Shot Bid for a Utah Lottery
2/27/2024
Utah is one of only four states without a lottery. A longshot bill under consideration by the Utah State Legislature could potentially change that.
Duration:00:49:37
Through the Lens - The Eternal Memory
2/21/2024
“There is pain here,” “But there is also a lot of nobility.” From the book “The Forbidden Memory” by Augusto Góngora.
Duration:00:49:35
The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
2/15/2024
On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed they were abducted by “beings that were somehow not human.”
Duration:00:49:16
Spirit World Encounters in Mormon Utah
2/14/2024
Growing up in Northern Utah, the scholar Erin Stiles often heard stories from her Mormon friends about visits from spiritual beings. In a new book, she explores just how common these experiences happen to be.
Duration:00:47:45