Podcast Episodes

Fire in the Belly — Tyson Yunkaporta

Season 19

The second in a series of stories we’re sharing in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, this narrated essay by Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta explores the ways we’ve long mistaken …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Supracellular: A Meditation – Sophie Strand

Season 19

Over the next month we'll be sharing four stories in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature. In this first one, author Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the mor…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Sun House – A Conversation with David James Duncan

Season 19

What does it mean to search for transcendence in a world going completely out of balance? From our archive, this interview with acclaimed author David James Duncan explores his epic novel Sun House, …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Season 19

What if we listened to the complex clicks of whales and could understand their meanings? What would we hear and how might we respond? More-Than-Human (MOTH) Life Collective founder César Rodríguez-Ga…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Season 19

In this conversation, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane asks the ancient and urgent question: is a river alive? Understanding rivers to be presences, not resources, he immerses us in the ways they “…

Published on 3 months ago

A Small King – Nicholas Triolo

Writer Nicholas Triolo walks the length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal with a book by Christian mystic Thomas Merton in his pack. For Merton, the living world shimmered with a divine feminine pre…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

In the Wake of the Sandbound – Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt traverses the spine of the Curonian Spit in the Baltic Sea, and learns how its sands—anchored by forest roots for millennia—began to move rapidly and swallow villages in the eighteenth cent…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Aquarium – Daisy Hildyard read by Colin Salmon

Season 18

English novelist Daisy Hildyard envisions the deep time evolution of the coastline of Scarborough, North Yorkshire: from a prehistoric meteor strike, to a 19th-century seaside aquarium devoid of fish…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and Songs

Season 18

In celebration of Earth Day, this episode invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. “When the…

Published on 4 months ago

The Fault of Time – Erica Berry

Season 18

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Grappling with her fear…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago