Focus on Flowers

Indestructible Natives 01.02.2018 2:00 ↓

Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.

Collections of Art, Architecture, and Music 29.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Meet The Art Collector Next Door, visit architectural marvel Columbus, Indiana, and more.

Sounds So Nice, Feels So Good 25.01.2018 7:10 ↓

The cornetto is a woodwind instrument with a brass-style cup mouth piece which flourished in the mid 1600’s, in the early to middle-baroque period.

Pollinator Plants 25.01.2018 2:00 ↓

This year, I’m going to buy more plants that provide food and shelter for pollinators.

Cornetto Master Bruce Dickey 20.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Dana Marsh speaks with Bruce Dickey, one of a few musicians who have dedicated themselves to reviving the cornetto, which fell into disuse in the 19th century.

Liatris Is A Monarch Magnet 18.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Liatris attracts lots of those lovely Monarch butterflies into our gardens.

Constitution Expert William Araiza 13.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Steve Sanders speaks with Brooklyn Law School Professor William Araiza about giving new life to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

Native Prairies 11.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Since the 1830s, about 99 percent of American tall grass prairies have been destroyed.

Composer Renee Baker 06.01.2018 58:55 ↓

Janae Cummings speaks with composer, conductor, violinist, and violist Renee Baker.

Vienna Vocal Consort 05.01.2018 7:55 ↓

Machaut's 'Messe de Nostre Dame' is inordinately famous, and is often cited as the first complete polyphonic setting of a Mass ordinary by a single composer.

Ruined And Forsaken Gardens 04.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde.

Cardinal Stage Company Artistic Director Kate Galvin 02.01.2018 44:33 ↓

speaks with Kate Galvin is the new artistic director of Cardinal Stage Company in Bloomington.

A Thousand Flowers, Each Seeming One 28.12.2017 2:00 ↓

Excerpts from" A Flower in a Letter" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Composer Jake Heggie 23.12.2017 58:54 ↓

WFIU's Aaron Cain speaks with contemporary classical composer Jake Heggie.

Musica Fiorita plays Molter 22.12.2017 7:51 ↓

The young Johann Melchior Molter likely learned the basics of music before attending Gymnasium in Eisenach where J.S. Bach had been a pupil a few years earlier.

Co-Existence 21.12.2017 2:00 ↓

Plants, like people, often seem better because of the virtues of others.

NOVA Producers Paula Apsell and Doug Hamilton 16.12.2017 52:47 ↓

Gena Asher speaks with NOVA senior executive producer Paula Apsell, and NOVA writer-producer Doug Hamilton.

Namesake Gifts For The Holidays 14.12.2017 2:00 ↓

Namesake plant gifts are easy to send and are usually well received.

Geoff Wilson of the Ploughshares Fund 09.12.2017 58:54 ↓

Aaron Cain speaks with Geoff Wilson of the Ploughshares Fund, which works to eliminate nuclear weapons around the world.

Un Jardin à l'Italienne 08.12.2017 6:57 ↓

With the thunderous applause at the end of this CD, you can almost imagine yourself on tour with the Académie in Australia at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Flowering Onions 07.12.2017 2:00 ↓

The Allium genus is a large one...

LGBT Activist Cleve Jones 02.12.2017 58:54 ↓

Steve Sanders speaks with West Lafayette, Indiana native Cleve Jones

Scented & Double Daffodils 30.11.2017 2:00 ↓

As I look for late season bargains, I look for daffodils that bloom late and are scented as well as double.

Philidor Paris Quartets 29.11.2017 6:45 ↓

Ars Antiqua transports listeners back in time to the gilded 18th century Rococo music rooms of Paris.

Irish Poet Paul Muldoon 25.11.2017 58:54 ↓

Will Murphy interviews Irish poet, editor, critic, and translator Paul Muldoon.