RadioWest

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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.

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Never Heard of Scrupulosity? Neither Have Many Who Suffer From It

Apr 25 2024 50 mins

Even if you aren’t afflicted by it, you probably know about obsessive compulsive disorder. But even if you have it, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of scrupulosity.

Celebrating the Natural World with Writer Rick Bass

Apr 23 2024 48 mins

For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.

Whales of the High Desert

Apr 18 2024 36 mins

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.

Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air

Apr 17 2024 49 mins

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.

Mere Beauty: Utah Symposium on Science and Literature

Apr 11 2024 50 mins

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?

Through the Lens: ‘Hotshot’

Apr 10 2024 49 mins

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.

How the Ocean Works

Apr 04 2024 49 mins

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.

Exploring Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’

Apr 03 2024 52 mins

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.

The Debate Over Women's Empowerment in the LDS Church

Mar 28 2024 49 mins

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.

Is it Actually a Good Idea to Colonize Mars?

Mar 27 2024 49 mins

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?