http://www.radiocurious.org Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:01:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Welcome to the 20th year of Radio Curious, half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics about life and ideas. All of the almost 400 half-hour archive editions on our website are free for you to enjoy, download, copy, share or rebroadcast as you wish. Please give credit to Radio Curious and let us know what you like about the program. www.radiocurious.org Radio Curious clean Radio Curious curious@radiocurious.org curious@radiocurious.org (Radio Curious) Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Radio Curious Radio Curious, Interviews, Environment, Education, Chautauquan, Psychology/Psychaitry, Sex, Mendocino, Law, Religion, Feminism http://www.radiocurious.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/radio-curious-rss-logo.jpg http://www.radiocurious.org/category/chautauquan/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/15/kate-magruder-celebrating-community/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/15/kate-magruder-celebrating-community/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:55:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5339 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/15/kate-magruder-celebrating-community/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Ukiah, California, a small vibrant community, approximately 100 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge is the home to the Ukiah Players Theater. An annual May fundraiser for the theater offers a tour of old and new hom... Click here to begin listening.  Ukiah, California, a small vibrant community, approximately 100 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge is the home to the Ukiah Players Theater. An annual May fundraiser for the theater offers a tour of old and new homes on the west side of town, offered by the residents willing to share their history with community members. Kate Magruder, a founder of Ukiah Players Theater and considered by many to be the soul and life force of the UPT, successfully strives to search out and tell historical stories of the Ukiah, the ancestral home of the Pomo people who called the area Yokayo, meaning long narrow valley. In this program Kate Magruder explains the importance of place, knowing where we come from and our history, and in the benefits of telling communities’ stories. This interview was recorded May 11, 2008. The books Kate Magruder recommends are, “Our Land Ourselves, Readings on People and Place,” and “The Great Remembering: further Thoughts on Land, Soul, and Society,” both published by The Trust for Public Land. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/12/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/12/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols-2/#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:13:00 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5230 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/12/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:45:46 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4797 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the greatest independent thinkers of all time. Click here to begin listening.  Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the greatest independent thinkers of all time. Socrates himself refused to be recognized as a teacher. Instead, Plato, his well-known student and reporter of Socrates’ dialogues, tells us he asked to be seen as a “midwife of ideas.” Socrates’ passion to achieve self-understanding, and the proper ways to live, continues to be studied and emulated to this day. Socrates recommends “The Trojan Women,” by Euripides. Ron Gross recommends “The Clouds,” by Aristophanes. Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2003 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/11/18/the-revolutionary-heart-and-life-of-clarina-nichols/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/11/18/the-revolutionary-heart-and-life-of-clarina-nichols/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:05:49 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4036 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/11/18/the-revolutionary-heart-and-life-of-clarina-nichols/feed/ 0   - Click here to begin listening.  - Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights - The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early women's rights movement of the United States has been greatl...   Click here to begin listening.  (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-NICHOLS-EICKHOFF_IA_11.18.20.mp3) Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early women's rights movement of the United States has been greatly overlooked. As one of the country’s first female newspaper editors and stump speakers, Clarina Nichols spoke out for temperance, abolition and women's rights at a time when doing so could get a woman killed. Unlike other activists, she personally experienced some of the cruelest sufferings that a married woman of her day could know. In her pursuit for justice she traveled westward facing all of the challenges of being a single mother and a women's rights activist of her day with good humor and resourcefulness. Clarina Nichols is portrayed by Diane Eickhoff in this Chautauquan style interview.  We began when I asked Clarina about her childhood. Clarina Nichols recommends "The Sexes Throughout Nature (Pioneers of the woman's movement)," by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell. Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2007 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/10/22/greeley-horace-fenimore-david-go-west-young-man-go-west/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/10/22/greeley-horace-fenimore-david-go-west-young-man-go-west/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:17:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4473 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/10/22/greeley-horace-fenimore-david-go-west-young-man-go-west/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and political ideas of the times. Horace Greeley was one of the most colorful and ou... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Horace_Greeley_(David_Fenimore)10.22.19_IA.mp3) Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and political ideas of the times. Horace Greeley was one of the most colorful and outspoken newspapermen of his day. “Read and judge yourself,” was a slogan of his, almost as well known in his lifetime as his slogan, “Go west, young man, go west,” is known now. I spoke with Horace Greeley through the personage of Chautauqua scholar David Fenimore during the 1996 Democracy in America Chautauqua series that visited Ukiah, CA. Horace Greeley recommends “Democracy in America,” by Alexis de Tocqueville. David Fenimore recommends “Breaking News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy,” by James Fallows & “Who Will Tell the People?” by William Greider. Originally Broadcast: February 26, 1997 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/08/20/sarmientodomingo-lewis-daniel-an-argentine-president/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/08/20/sarmientodomingo-lewis-daniel-an-argentine-president/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:51:46 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4455 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/08/20/sarmientodomingo-lewis-daniel-an-argentine-president/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Domingo Sarmiento, a teacher and later President of the Republic of Argentina, spent several years traveling in Europe and the United States in the mid-19th Century. He spent six weeks in the US in the fall of 1847 and ... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Sarmiento_(Lewis)_8-20-19_IA.mp3) Domingo Sarmiento, a teacher and later President of the Republic of Argentina, spent several years traveling in Europe and the United States in the mid-19th Century. He spent six weeks in the US in the fall of 1847 and later published his account of this visit, selectively interpreting what he saw and experienced to conform to his ideas. In this archive edition of Radio Curious, I visit with Domingo Sarmiento in the person of Professor Daniel Lewis, a scholar-presenter in the 1996 Democracy in America Chautauqua. I met with Domingo Sarmiento during a break in the Chautauqua programming in Ukiah, California, and asked him what he saw the future of the American Union to be, from his perspective in 1843. Domingo Sarmiento recommends any book by James Fenimore Cooper. Daniel Lewis recommends “The Invention of Argentina,” by Nicolas Shumway. Originally Broadcast: July 27, 1996 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/03/07/wagner-sally-roesch-matilda-joslyn-gage-the-forgotten-suffragist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/03/07/wagner-sally-roesch-matilda-joslyn-gage-the-forgotten-suffragist/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:16:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4189 http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/03/07/wagner-sally-roesch-matilda-joslyn-gage-the-forgotten-suffragist/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. - Matilda Joslyn Gage, an outspoken leader for women’s rights, Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Radio_Curious_-_20170307_-_Gage.mp3) This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. Matilda Joslyn Gage, an outspoken leader for women’s rights, and an advocate to abolish slavery and religious bigotry, became historically invisible in pursuit of her liberty to think and speak as she thought proper. She was threatened with jail for voting in New York in 1871, and later was inducted into the Iroquois nation after publicly declaring Christian theology to be a primary source of the oppression of women. Historian and Chautauqua scholar Sally Roesch Wagner, who portrays Matilda Joslyn Gage, brought Gage into the limelight by creating the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, based in Fayetteville, New York. The Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and the power of her work to drive contemporary social change. Radio Curious spoke with Sally Roesch Wagner in December 1996. Our conversation began when I welcomed Matilda Joslyn Gage. The book Matilda Joslyn Gage recommends is “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy,” by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The book Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner recommends is “Women, Church and State,” by Matilda Joslyn Gage. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:48:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4003 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/28/pico-pio-garza-robert-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/28/pico-pio-garza-robert-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:48:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3780 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/28/pico-pio-garza-robert-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/feed/ 0 Mexico Radio Curious visits with the last Mexican Governor of California, Pio Pico, as portrayed by historian Roberto Garza. Pico fled California during the American takeover, but returned and later served on the Los Angeles City Council. Radio Curious goes back into California history about 165 years, and visits with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico. Born at the San Gabriel Mission in 1801, Pico was of Spanish, Italian, Indian and African ancestry. Both as a politician and as an entrepreneur, he espoused the views of many native-born “Californarios” over distant seats of government. As the last Mexican Governor of California, he presided over the secularization of the missions, and turned over their vast land holdings to private hands. Although he fled California during the American takeover, Pio Pico returned to build the first major hotel in Los Angeles. Later, he served on the Los Angeles City Council. I met with Pio Pico, portrayed by Roberto Garza, in February of 1998.  When Pio Pico and I met in the person of Roberto Garza we began when I asked him to tell us about his life. The book Pio Pico recommends is “Pio Pico, A Historical Narrative,” by Pio Pico. Roberto Graza recommends “Pio Pico Miscellany,” by Martin Cole and “The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890,” by Leonard Pitt. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/10/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/10/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin-part-two/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:47:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3329 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/10/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin-part-two/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold in the second of a two part, archived conversation. We continue with the second of two archive visits with Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold. Archbold has made a career of interpreting Benjamin Franklin for over 30 years.   In part one of this series we discussed Benjamin Franklin's early life, his inventions, his role in the secession from England and in the formation of the Confederation and later the United States of America. This second part was recorded in July 1994, at the City Tavern, as it has been called since it opened in 1774.  It quickly became a center of political events of the times.  Paul Revere went there to announce the news that the British government closed the Port of Boston.  Many influential people in the colonies gathered in Philadelphia to decide on a response to the British government's closing of Boston’s port and other acts.  When John Adams, who later became the second President of the United States, went to Philadelphia in August of 1774 to attend the first Continental Congress, he was greeted by leading citizens and immediately taken to the City Tavern.  He characterized it as “the most genteel tavern in America.”  For the next decades, the City Tavern would be a familiar sight to leading figures of the American Revolution. When Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold, and I visited at the City Tavern over lunch, we considered many aspects, past and present, of American life.   We began our conversation when I asked Benjamin Franklin about the history of the City Tavern. The book Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Archbold recommend is “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.”   Click here or on the media player below to listen to part two. Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/03/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/03/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:03:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3316 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/03/franklin-benjamin-archbold-ralph-two-visits-with-benjamin-franklin/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold in this two part, archived conversation. This is the first of two archived visits with Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold. Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a young man and became an inventor, printer, scientist, author, governor, activist in the war for independence from England, an ambassador to France, and the first post master general in the United states, among a multitude of many other accomplishments. Ralph Archbold has portrayed Benjamin Franklin in theater, for conventions, and in the media for over 30 years. Benjamin Franklin, through the person of Ralph Archbold, met with me in Franklin Court where his home and printshop were located, in Philadelphia. We met on July 18, 1994. We discussed his early life, his inventions and his role in the cessation from England and the formation of the United States. We began our conversation when I first asked him when he first came to Philadelphia. The book Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Archbold recommend is “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.”   Click here or on the media player below to listen to part one.   Click here to listen to part two. 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Radio Curious revisits a 1994 conversation with Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.   Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, stands as one of the lead political theorists of American history.  His ward republican theory required an agrarian population, a government originating in the individual household, and a consistently questioning and rebellious public.My guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Mr. Jefferson, personified by Clay Jenkinson.We discussed what has gone wrong in the US since Mr. Jefferson was President and addressed some of his concepts of what are necessary for a democracy. The book Thomas Jefferson recommends is "The History of the Peloponnesian War," by Thuclydides. The book C. Jenkinson recommends is "In the Absence of the Sacred," by Jerry Mander. Originally Broadcast: May 21, 1994 Click here to learn more or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/08/muir-john-an-early-american-conservationist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/08/muir-john-an-early-american-conservationist/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:39:13 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2765 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/08/muir-john-an-early-american-conservationist/feed/ 1 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the Sierra Club and is credited with founding the National Park system in the United States. One of the greatest early conservationists of America was a Scottish immigrant named John Muir who, as a young boy, went first to Wisconsin and then later, as a young man in the 1860s, he moved onward to California. A friend of president Theodore Roosevelt, he successfully sought to preserve the spectacular Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada range, it was joy in his lifetime. Yet the loss of the equally spectacular Hetch Hetch Valley to a dam to provide water for San Francisco was his greatest sorrow. John Muir founded the Sierra Club and is credited with founding the National Park system in the United States. I visited with John Muir in the person of Lee Stetson in the studios of Radio Curious in October of 1995 and discussed his life and observations. Originally Broadcast: October 1995. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:11:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2714 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 1826 to 1892, and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. Matilda Joslyn Gage, an outspoken leader for women’s rights, and an advocate to abolish slavery and religious bigotry, became historically invisible in pursuit of her liberty to think and speak as she thought proper.  She was threatened with jail for voting in New York in 1871, and later was inducted into the Iroquois nation after publicly declaring Christian theology to be a primary source of the oppression of women. Historian and chautauqua scholar Sally Roesch Wagner, who portrays Matilda Joslyn Gage, brought Gage into the limelight by creating the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, based in Fayetteville, New York.  The Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and the power of her work to drive contemporary social change. I met with Sally Roesch Wagner in the studios of Radio Curious in December 1996.  Our conversation began when I welcomed Matilda Joslyn Gage to Radio Curious. The book Matilda Joslyn Gage recommends is “The Secret Doctrine:  The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy,” by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The book Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner recommends is “Women, Church and State,” by Matilda Joslyn Gage. This program was recorded in December 1996. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:03:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2697 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks in the 19th century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass were good friends from the mid 19th century to the late 19th century, and were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks throughout their lives.  From time to time they got together to visit and talk about America, as they knew it. In this archive edition of Radio Curious recorded in May 1996, I met with Chautauqua scholars Sally Roesch Wagner and Charles Pace who portrayed Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass. We began our conversation when I asked them each to tell us what it was like to be an American during their life time. Originally Broadcast: July 3, 1996. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/06/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/06/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840-2/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:04:49 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2237 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/06/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840-2/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who lived in the 1830's and likely the first African-American to speak out in defense of women's rights. Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by Sandra Kamusukiri.  Maria W. Stewart, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to the early 1840s. She was the first American born woman to lecture in public on political themes and likely the first African-American to speak out in defense of women’s rights. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/28/socrates-ron-gross-%e2%80%93-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/28/socrates-ron-gross-%e2%80%93-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:43:09 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1990 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/28/socrates-ron-gross-%e2%80%93-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Ron Gross, author of "Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost." Gross speaks as if he were Socrates. Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the greatest independent thinkers of all time. Socrates himself refused to be recognized as a teacher. Instead, Plato, his well-known student and reporter of Socrates’ dialogues, tells us he asked to be seen as a “midwife of ideas.” Socrates’ passion to achieve self-understanding, and the proper ways to live, continues to be studied and emulated to this day. Socrates recommends “The Trojan Women,” by Euripides. Ron Gross recommends “The Clouds,” by Aristophanes. Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2003 Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=54673&version_id=61136&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/magruder-kate-celebrating-community/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/magruder-kate-celebrating-community/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 01:11:04 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/magruder-kate-celebrating-community/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/magruder-kate-celebrating-community/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/01/13/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/01/13/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:57:09 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/01/13/clarina-nichols-portrayed-by-eickhoff-diane-the-revolutionary-heart-of-clarina-nichols/feed/ 0 Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early women's rights movement of the United States has been greatly overlooked. Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early women's rights movement of the United States has been greatly overlooked. As one of the country’s first female newspaper editors and stump speakers, Clarina Nichols spoke out for temperance, abolition and women's rights at a time when doing so could get a woman killed. Unlike other activists, she personally experienced some of the cruelest sufferings that a married woman of her day could know. In her pursuit for justice she traveled westward facing all of the challenges of being a single mother and a women's rights activist of her day with good humor and resourcefulness. Clarina Nichols was portrayed by Diane Eickhoff in this Chautauquan style interview.  We began when I asked Clarina about her childhood. http://clarinanichols.googlepages.com/home (http://clarinanichols.googlepages.com/home) Clarina Nichols recommends "The Sexes Throughout Nature (Pioneers of the woman's movement)," by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell. Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2007 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20070114-NICHOLS_-_EICKHOFF_INTERVIEW_1-13-07.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:35:02 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/25/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1999/03/06/dame-shirley-kate-magruder-women-and-the-gold-rush/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1999/03/06/dame-shirley-kate-magruder-women-and-the-gold-rush/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 1999 13:07:04 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/dame-shirley-kate-magruder-women-and-the-gold-rush/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1999/03/06/dame-shirley-kate-magruder-women-and-the-gold-rush/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/27/pio-pico-roberto-garza-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/27/pio-pico-roberto-garza-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:03:27 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/pio-pico-roberto-garza-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/27/pio-pico-roberto-garza-meet-the-last-mexican-governor-of-california/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/20/john-sutterdavid-fenimore-a-visit-with-john-sutter/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/20/john-sutterdavid-fenimore-a-visit-with-john-sutter/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:09:07 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/john-sutterdavid-fenimore-a-visit-with-john-sutter/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/02/20/john-sutterdavid-fenimore-a-visit-with-john-sutter/feed/ 1 John Sutter was an émigré from Switzerland who came to California to establish his New Helvicia in the land of opportunity, located in what is now close to Sacramento, California. A man with vision and organization, and a liking to drink, John Sutter was an émigré from Switzerland who came to California to establish his New Helvicia in the land of opportunity, located in what is now close to Sacramento, California. A man with vision and organization, and a liking to drink, Sutter built an economically thriving Anglo-American settlement outpost in what was then Mexican California. The economy was based on livestock and lumber and used forced Native American labor. The discovery of gold in 1849 at a mill owned by Sutter started the gold rush that ultimately led to his undoing, ruining him financially as the mass of humanity tramped through the lands he then claimed to own, on their rush to the gold fields. John Sutter was portrayed by historian David Fennimore and was part of “Rediscovering California at 150” the California sesquicentennial initiative produced by the California Council for the Humanities. John Sutter recommends “Ivanhoe,” by Sir Walter Scott and “Report Concerning North America,” by Godfried Duden. Originally Broadcast: February 20, 1998 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060802-_242__Sutter__John__David_Fennimore_.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:55:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/11/27/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/11/27/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:00:28 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/11/27/maria-stewart-sandra-kamusukiri-a-visit-with-a-free-black-women-boston-1840/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who lived in the early 1800's and likely the first African-American to speak out in defense of women's rights. Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to the early 1840s. She was the first American born woman to lecture in public on political themes and likely the first African-American to speak out in defense of women’s rights. A forerunner to Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, she was intensely religious and regarded as outspoken and controversial during her time. For more than a century, Maria W. Stewart’s life contributions remained obscured, illustrating the double pressures of racism and sexism on the lives African-American women. I met with Mariah W. Stewart in the person of Professor Sandra Kamusukiri during the 1996 Democracy in America Chautauqua, held in Ukiah, California. Maria Stewart recommends "The Fair Sketches of Women," by John Adams and "The Bible." Originally Broadcast: November 27, 1996 Click here to begin listening or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/26/domingo-sarmiento-daniel-lewis-an-argentine-president/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/26/domingo-sarmiento-daniel-lewis-an-argentine-president/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:05:47 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/domingo-sarmiento-daniel-lewis-an-argentine-president/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/26/domingo-sarmiento-daniel-lewis-an-argentine-president/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/07/alexis-de-tocquevilledick-johnson-a-visit-with-alexis-de-tocqueville/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/07/alexis-de-tocquevilledick-johnson-a-visit-with-alexis-de-tocqueville/#comments Sun, 07 Jul 1996 13:11:06 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/alexis-de-tocquevilledick-johnson-a-visit-with-alexis-de-tocqueville/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/07/alexis-de-tocquevilledick-johnson-a-visit-with-alexis-de-tocqueville/feed/ 0 Democracy in America In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US to study this new political scheme. Alexis de Tocqueville and his traveling companion, Democracy in America In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US to study this new political scheme. Alexis de Tocqueville and his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont, arrived at Newport, RI, in an America comprised, then, of 23 states and 13 million people. They stayed for nine months, and then returned to France at which time de Tocqueville began his epic poem entitled “Democracy in America.” At a time then when slavery was an economic base in the South, and abolitionism was beginning to thrive in the North, America had three frontiers: geography, industry, and democracy. In this program of Radio Curious, we’ll be talking with Alexis De Tocqueville, through the person of Chautauqua scholar, Dick Johnson. Alexis de Tocqueville recommends “Democracy in America,” by Alexis de Tocqueville. Originally Broadcast: July 17, 1996 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060714-_176__Tocqueville__Alexis_de__7-17-96.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/03/elizabeth-stanton-frederick-douglass-sally-wagner-charles-pace-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/03/elizabeth-stanton-frederick-douglass-sally-wagner-charles-pace-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:58:26 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/elizabeth-stanton-frederick-douglass-sally-wagner-charles-pace-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/07/03/elizabeth-stanton-frederick-douglass-sally-wagner-charles-pace-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks in the 19th century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass were good friends from the mid 19th century to the late 19th century, and were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks throughout their lives. From time to time they got together to visit and talk about America, as they knew it. In this archive edition of Radio Curious recorded in May 1996, I met with Chautauqua scholars Sally Roesch Wagner and Charles Pace who portrayed Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass and asked them each to tell us what it was like to be an American during their life time. The book Frederick Douglass recommends is, “The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces Together With Rules, Which Are Calculated to Improve Youth and Others, in the Ornamental and Using Art of Eloquence” by Caleb Bingham. The book Charles Pace recommends is, “W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868 to 1919,” by David Levering Lewis. The book Elizabeth Cady Stanton recommends is, “The Woman’s Bible” edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The book Sally Wagner recommends is, “The Homesteader: A Novel,” by Oscar Micheaux. Originally broadcast: July 3, 1996 Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/03/07/abraham-lincoln-james-getty-the-16th-president/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/03/07/abraham-lincoln-james-getty-the-16th-president/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 1996 11:59:45 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/abraham-lincoln-james-getty-the-16th-president/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1996/03/07/abraham-lincoln-james-getty-the-16th-president/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/10/20/john-muir-lee-stetson-an-early-american-conservationist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/10/20/john-muir-lee-stetson-an-early-american-conservationist/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:59:25 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/john-muir-lee-stetson-an-early-american-conservationist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/10/20/john-muir-lee-stetson-an-early-american-conservationist/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the Sierra Club and is credited with founding the National Park system in the United States. The Wild Muir One of the greatest early conservationists of America was a Scottish immigrant named John Muir who, as a young boy, went first to Wisconsin and then later, as a young man in the 1860s, moved onward to California. A friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, he successfully sought to preserve the spectacular Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada range; it was joy in his lifetime. Yet the loss of the equally spectacular Hetch Hetch Valley to a dam to provide water for San Francisco was his greatest sorrow. John Muir founded the Sierra Club and is credited with founding the National Park System in the United States. I visited with John Muir in the person of Lee Stetson in the studios of Radio Curious in October of 1995 and discussed his life and observations. We begin with his comments on the effect that extinction of so many species during and since his lifetime has had on the Earth’s remaining species. The book that Lee Stetson recommends is his own, “The Wild Muir,” by Lee Stetson The book that John Muir recommends is “Sixty Miles From Contentment,” by M.H. Dunlop. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:02 http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/07/01/corporal-gabriel-west-sgt-hugh-griffin-the-first-english-settlement-in-the-new-world/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/07/01/corporal-gabriel-west-sgt-hugh-griffin-the-first-english-settlement-in-the-new-world/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 1995 13:15:50 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/corporal-gabriel-west-sgt-hugh-griffin-the-first-english-settlement-in-the-new-world/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1995/07/01/corporal-gabriel-west-sgt-hugh-griffin-the-first-english-settlement-in-the-new-world/feed/ 0 Please join me as we go back in history to the year 1584, to the East Coast of what is now the United States. In that year, Queen Elizabeth the First, then the Queen of England, sent Sir Walter Raleigh in command of three seafaring expeditions to what ... Please join me as we go back in history to the year 1584, to the East Coast of what is now the United States. In that year, Queen Elizabeth the First, then the Queen of England, sent Sir Walter Raleigh in command of three seafaring expeditions to what they called the New World. These expeditions landed on the central coast of what is now North Carolina and became the first English settlements in North America. They called the region Virginia, in honor of Elizabeth the First, the maiden Queen of England. The Cultural Resources Division of the North Carolina Division of History has recreated a model of the seafarers' ship, called Elizabeth the Second, which carried these small groups of soldiers across the ocean in 1585. In-character actors, talking as real people living in 1585, are on site near Roanoke, North Carolina. I first spoke with a man who called himself Sgt. Hugh Griffin. He claimed to be in charge of the small outpost, one of several they established on their arrival a few days before. Originally Broadcast: July 1, 1995 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/11232/13364/20297/?url=http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive/04.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050209-_146_ELIZ_2__HISTORIC_SITE__N.C..mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/07/18/benjamin-franklin-ralph-archbold-visit-with-benjamin-franklin/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/07/18/benjamin-franklin-ralph-archbold-visit-with-benjamin-franklin/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 1994 11:38:10 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/benjamin-franklin-ralph-archbold-visit-with-benjamin-franklin/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/07/18/benjamin-franklin-ralph-archbold-visit-with-benjamin-franklin/feed/ 0 This conversation with Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Ralph Archibald who shares a birthday with Benjamin Franklin, was recorded in the summer of 1994 in two parts. The first was recorded on a walk to where Benjamin Franklin lived and worked, This conversation with Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Ralph Archibald who shares a birthday with Benjamin Franklin, was recorded in the summer of 1994 in two parts. The first was recorded on a walk to where Benjamin Franklin lived and worked, and the second was recorded at the City Tavern, both Philadelphia landmarks in Franklin’s life and now. Benjamin Franklin is, perhaps, the most noteworthy and animated of the Founding Fathers. His contributions to science, common sense, and, most importantly, this nation of ours set him apart from most other figures in American history. Originally Broadcast: July 18, 1994 and July 25, 1994 Click here to begin listening to part one. Click here to begin listening to part two. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060728-_129__Franklin__Benjamin_tavern_3-20-94.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/05/01/thomas-jefferson-c-jenkinson-the-author-of-the-declaration-of-independence/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/05/01/thomas-jefferson-c-jenkinson-the-author-of-the-declaration-of-independence/#comments Sun, 01 May 1994 11:51:17 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/thomas-jefferson-c-jenkinson-the-author-of-the-declaration-of-independence/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/05/01/thomas-jefferson-c-jenkinson-the-author-of-the-declaration-of-independence/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, stands as one of the lead political theorists of American history.  His ward republican theory required an agrarian population, a government originating in the individual household, and a consistently questioning and rebellious public.My guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Mr. Jefferson, personified by Clay Jenkinson.We discussed what has gone wrong in the US since Mr. Jefferson was President and addressed some of his concepts of what are necessary for a democracy. The book Thomas Jefferson recommends is "The History of the Peloponnesian War," by Thuclydides. The book C. Jenkinson recommends is "In the Absence of the Sacred," by Jerry Mander. Originally Broadcast: May 21, 1994 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00