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A 2021 documentary film about rocker Tom Petty's landmark WILDFLOWERS album is the focus of a conversation with the film's director Mary Wharton.

This episode traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own.

Live Action Role Play; surfers as climate change activists; bird watching as a sport; and teaching martial arts make, up this diverse episode.

As we emerge from isolation and pandemic, we find ourselves in many ways, a nation divided. This self contained hour of documentary-style features takes a dive into issues that divide us and efforts to pull together.

If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?

Over the years the blues has influenced countless jazz vocalists. In the program, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Lou Rawls, Billie Holiday, Etta Jones, Laverne Butler and others talk about and demonstrate jazz singing steeped in the blues.

Artists such as Dakota Staton, Louis Jordan, O.C. Smith, Oscar Brown Jr., and Jon Hendricks let the good times roll.

Exchanging glances with the natural world happens more often than you’d think. It can be so profound, there’s a name for it: An eye-to-eye epiphany.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fascinating peak at her creative process of writing music and choosing songs to cover.

Dave talks to Arizona State University marine conservation biologist about his new book: Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World's Most Misunderstood Predator. In it, Shiffman lays out a powerful case for how we are much more dangerous to sharks than they are to us.