Focus on Flowers

Foreign Correspondent Joe Coleman 21.06.2015 55:52 ↓

Gena Asher interviews longtime journalist and IU professor Joe Coleman.

The Flight Of The Field Mouse 21.06.2015 4:54 ↓

David Watters reads "Little Carpenter," "The Flight of the Field Mouse," "Here in This Place," "Between the Sound," and "To the Quick-Footed Fawn..."

Música Celestial: From The Convent Of The Encarnación 19.06.2015 7:43 ↓

Music of manuscripts from the Convento de la Encarnación in Mexico City, now held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Film Director Peter Weir 14.06.2015 58:45 ↓

IU Cinema Director Jon Vickers interviews Oscar-nominated movie director Peter Weir.

Garden Town 14.06.2015 4:18 ↓

Miles reads "Garden Town" and "Car Fire: Storm of the Century."

Trio Settecento Plays Veracini 12.06.2015 7:19 ↓

A new ambitious project from Trio Settecento: the complete Op. 2 Sonate Accademiche by Francesco Maria Veracini.

Perpetual Motion 07.06.2015 4:53 ↓

Kien Lam reads "Ego," "Perpetual Motion," and "Factory Dialect."

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans 07.06.2015 57:44 ↓

Trish Kerlé interviews NPR’s first full-time television critic Eric Deggans.

Pop Music Critic and Scholar Eric Weisbard 31.05.2015 58:36 ↓

Mark Chilla speaks with Eric Weisbard, the founder and longtime organizer of the Experience Music Project Pop Conference.

This Is The Truth 31.05.2015 4:58 ↓

David Watters reads "The Difference," "This Is the Truth," "Not Yet," "The Blush," and "End of the Night Sonnet."

Fairies' Gloves 28.05.2015 2:00 ↓

The botanical name Digitalis is from the Latin for finger, and “folk” refers to fairies, hence the common name of folks' gloves or fairies' gloves.

Il Redentore 24.05.2015 4:58 ↓

Shayla Lawson reads "Il Redentore" and "Santa Maria della Pietà."

Nature Photographer James Balog 24.05.2015 56:10 ↓

Betsy Shepherd speaks with photographer James Balog, who for more than 30 years has documented human modification of Earth's natural systems.

Renaissance Pop 23.05.2015 7:07 ↓

Ring Around Quartet and Consort sing Frottole: Popular songs of Renaissance Italy.

Lilac Breeding 21.05.2015 2:00 ↓

Although non-native, lilacs are a much-loved and well-behaved import to North America.

Traveling Home 17.05.2015 4:48 ↓

Evelyn Reynolds reads "Saucer Magnolias" and "Traveling Home: Sangre de Cristo Mountains."

Queen Of Heaven 15.05.2015 6:28 ↓

Agave Baroque and countertenor Reginald Mobley perform music by the Italian nun, Isabella Leonarda.

Deer-Proof Hellebores 14.05.2015 2:00 ↓

Common names for these wonderful plants are Christmas rose or Lenten rose, depending on the species and time of bloom.

Orson Welles and the Truth 11.05.2015 58:54 ↓

James Gray and Joshua Brewer present this special WFIU production on the life and career of Orson Welles.

Cascabel 10.05.2015 4:58 ↓

Leslie Aguilar reads her poems "Invocation," "Cascabel," and "Sueño de Retorno."

Mother's Day 07.05.2015 2:00 ↓

Mother’s Day is a truly floral holiday.

Margaret Atwood and Katherine Boo 04.05.2015 55:29 ↓

This two-part Profiles features interviews with novelist Margaret Atwood and New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo.

Misleading Myths 30.04.2015 2:00 ↓

As well as wonderful quotations, C. L. Fornari's handy book contains a lot of useful advice.

One Man Show 25.04.2015 7:36 ↓

Bud Roach performs music of Giovanni Felice Sances.

Bulb Flowers 23.04.2015 2:00 ↓

For flower lovers, the ability to step out into the garden and pick a fistful of blooms for a vase, is one of spring’s great pleasures.