dPhilip Chalmers (with others)

The Longwave Home

Fiction EN ↓ 6 episodes

The Longwave Home is a home frequency in a fractured era — a refuge of story, sound, and human connection broadcasting from the foothills of Northern California. Part radio album, part community chronicle, part late-night companion, each episode explores a single humanitarian theme and follows it wherever the signal leads: into music, into memory, into conversations with neighbors, into small acts of courage, into the long echo of history, and into the lives we’re all trying to make sense of. Rooted in Gold Country, but resonating far beyond it, Longwave is built from the voices that live here...

Author

dPhilip Chalmers (with others)

Episodes

The Longwave Home 21.06.2026 1:16:20

What are we loyal to... and why? In Episode 6, The Company We Keep, The Flags We Fly , we spend some time thinking about loyalty; where it comes from, what it asks of us, and why it remains such a powerful force in human life. From the folks of Free River to the foothills beyond, this month’s transmission gathers stories, observations, questions, and a few surprises along the way. After all, loyal...

The Longwave Home 21.05.2026 57:15

In Episode Five of The Longwave Home , we step right up to the one and only Faire of Fairness as it rolls into Free River for a strange and reflective evening examining one of humanity’s oldest and slipperiest questions: What is fairness, anyway? Through carnival tents, community voices, quiet confessions, and unsettling realizations, this transmission explores fairness in money, power, relationsh...

The Longwave Home 21.04.2026 1:31:26

Episode 4: A Self-Portrait, A Ukulele & Old Roger What does it mean to create something… and then recognize yourself inside it? In this episode of The Longwave Home , we spend time with Nevada County artists—people who live inside the act of making… and unmaking… and making again. Through three conversations, we explore creativity not as a skill, but as a way of seeing… a way of becoming… a wa...

The Longwave Home 21.03.2026 1:24:16

Every plan assumes the world will cooperate. But sometimes the melody bends, the timing slips, or the path quietly forks. Episode Three reflects on the art of recalibration—pausing, listening, and finding a new rhythm when the one you expected no longer fits. Because moving forward often begins with learning how to start again. Featuring music and conversations with world-renowned local favorites,...

The Longwave Home 21.02.2026 39:46

In this episode The Commentator asks one simple question: What Does Integrity Look Like to You?”  That question is pondered as we ride along in Free River, Nevada County, California and visit Caliente Hardware & Goods, the nearby local dollar store, and then take the long way home past Western Sierra Park to find The Italian Lemonade guy while enjoying the early spring afternoon… A final...

The Longwave Home 21.01.2026 1:05:24

Episode 001: Transmissions What does connection look like right now—how does it begin, how does it last, and how does it change us? In Transmissions, the first episode of The Longwave Home, The Commentator listens in on the signals that move between us: a quiet moment in a diner, voices from a local community, memories that linger long after a conversation ends. Through story, music, and reflectio...