North Words

(Jun 26, 2026) Our favorite conversations from this month, including a new album by a Juno-nominated singer, and a remarkable airplane hangar in Vermont

(Jun 19, 2026) "Queen of the Strait" is a heartfelt genre-spanning record that pays tribute to the people that Jenn Grant has loved and lost.

(Jun 12, 2026) A new edition of the book "A Lady in the Lake" tells the true story behind the Lake Placid legend

(Jun 5, 2026) Beth White runs "Habitat for Aviation," where grandmothers and pre-teens alike are learning to build planes, all the way from the rivets to the engine.

(May 29, 2026) The Village Green concert series began with local performers only. Now, the series draws Grammy winning acts from all over the world.

(May 22, 2026) Zach Donohue says some of the creepy backroads of the North Country inspired his latest movie, directed by André Øvredal

(May 15, 2026) A new book by a St. Lawrence University professor tells the story of the early days of environmental activism on the US-Canada border.

(May 8, 2026) The longtime "Weekend Edition Saturday" host wrote a book that chronicles his life story through adopted pets, including a cat that escaped the British Embassy.

(May 1, 2026) Mark Fridén has a storied career that has taken him all over the US and abroad. Oh, and he also speaks Swahili.

(Apr 24, 2026) The religious Society of St. Edmund is entering a stage of "completion." Fr. David Theroux talks about their social justice work, and why membership is closed.

(Apr 17, 2026) Multi-instrumentalist Raquel Acevedo Klein's music is a hard one to pin down, blending blending classical, jazz, and three ethnic traditions.

(Apr 10, 2026) OurStoryBridge is working to collect the oral histories of North Country communities to better connect people to the places they call home.

(Apr 3, 2026) Roosevelt spent a lot of time in the North Country. Before he became President, he was a law school dropout who his own family called "a traitor to his class."

(Mar 27, 2026) Listen to the March edition of the North Words radio show, featuring conversations with ESPN commentator Jenn Hildreth and author Jen Denny

(Mar 20, 2026) The Norwood-Norfolk graduate's recent book is called "Tough as a Mother."

(Mar 13, 2026) A year of no do-overs, ironically presented as an encore edition of North Words.

(Mar 6, 2026) Jen Denny's novel "Calculated Risk" follows an Assistant Park Ranger who uses her survival skills to make it out of the mountains in one piece

(Feb 27, 2026) For your medium-length drives or workouts, here's February's show, in 54 uninterrupted minutes.

(Feb 27, 2026) Christopher Shaw, a novelist from Vermont, drew on his time in the Adirondacks for the Cold War caper, "The Manager."

(Feb 20, 2026) Clarke and Barbara Dunham have been building sets for Broadway productions for decades.

(Feb 13, 2026) Casey Shaw's film "Unseen Olympiad" is streaming for free during the Winter Games

(Feb 6, 2026) Renate Wildermuth's new young adult novel follows a high school spy who is plunged into a conspiracy

(Jan 30, 2026) Got a longish drive coming up? We've got you covered. Here's the January edition of the North Words radio show, in all of its 54-minute glory. Enjoy.

(Jan 30, 2026) Over the course of 1,000 episodes, Jonathan Brown has given listeners daily mini deep-dives into significant writers whose work changed the world.

(Jan 23, 2026) Giles Blunt's book "Bad Juliet" is set among the cure cottages in the early 20th Century

(Jan 16, 2026) Dr. Anastasia Riehl is among the leaders of an effort to craft the first new Canadian English dictionary in decades, an update that factors in a lot of complicated issues.

(Jan 9, 2026) A new website documents the lake's social, natural, and legal history. It's a project that could help other communities compile their own stories, too.

(Dec 24, 2025) The mystery of whether Bill Taugher played in that game is the focus of a series in the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper.

(Dec 19, 2025) A new book by a sociology professor at Carleton University examines the lush city and its vibrant spaces.

(Dec 12, 2025) Peter Lourie was the first person to paddle the entire length of the Hudson River. 35 years later, he did it again.

(Dec 5, 2025) North Country writer Tim Brookes has a new book that explores what's happening to handwriting in an increasingly digital world.

(Nov 27, 2025) Here's 53 minutes' worth of North Words for your post-Thanksgiving trip home. Listen closely, but pay attention to the road.

(Nov 21, 2025) His recent book "The Nature of the Place" is an accidental memoir that chronicles changes in his life through decades of essay-writing on the natural world.

(Nov 14, 2025) Matt Bondurant's latest novel "North Country" explores a crime ring that is smuggling drugs over the Canadian border.

(Nov 7, 2025) Author Tracey Lange returned to the setting of her newest novel and got behind-the-scenes tours of the places that her characters inhabit.

(Oct 31, 2025) How Katherine Scott hopes her work will inspire others to rethink the objects in their collections.

(Oct 24, 2025) Matthew Algeo's new book chronicles the secret project to build New York City's first ever pneumatic subway system

(Oct 17, 2025) Dan Look's new book "Math Cats" scratches the surface of complex mathematical concepts through fun cat puns

(Oct 10, 2025) Director Dianne Dreyer brings three performances of Ephron's play "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" to North Creek and Glens Falls this weekend

(Oct 2, 2025) Puuluup brings the talharpa back from obscurity—with loops, punk, and even a dash of Eurovision.

(Sep 26, 2025) You wanted to listen at noon on the last Friday of the month, but you forgot. We're here to help. Here's September's radio show, in one tidy package.

(Sep 25, 2025) French singer-songwriter Constance Amiot's homage to the fleeting moment that is the end of summer.

(Sep 19, 2025) Divya Anantharaman believes preservation of physical animals is important, to honor both the life of the animals, and to give people a chance to study them.

(Sep 12, 2025) Soma Mei-Shang Frazier's novel, Off the Books, is an examination of the treatment of Uyghurs at the hands of the Chinese regime through the lens of a road trip.

(Sep 5, 2025) The Luisitania and the cure cottages of Saranac Lake collide in a new novel by the best-selling Canadian author of the "John Cardinal" series.

(Aug 29, 2025) A look back at conversations with singer, Vitalia, and playwright, Nina Kissinger. Plus Ethan and Mitch talk about a really weird conspiracy theory.

(Aug 22, 2025) Nina Kissinger's new play follows interns mired in a sea of phone calls and complaints and is inspired by her real-life experience on Capitol Hill.

(Aug 15, 2025) Mitch Teich welcomes HOWL Podcast host Ethan Shantie into the studio to talk about the 4th season of the show.

(Aug 8, 2025) Carolyn Wilcox and John Van Alstine give a preview of the Sacandaga Valley Arts Network's Art Trail, featuring dozens of artists across mediums.

(Aug 1, 2025) How Saranac Lake's cultural history is about more than tuberculosis patients.