All Episodes

# 137 Living With Fire: Big Sur — Jimmy Panetta on Family, Fire & the Work of Public Service

# 136 Living With Fire: Big Sur — John Mills and the Ways and Means of Watch Duty

# 135 Living with Fire: Big Sur. THE PATTERN OF FIRE, Nikki Nedeff on What the Santa Lucias Remember

# 134 LIVING WITH FIRE: BIG SUR - Kate Daniels, Responsibility Without Authority

# 133 Living With Fire: Big Sur - Kate — How do we know what we know when Big Sur is burning?

# 132 Living With Fire: Big Sur — Lucas Handy, When the Fire Came South

# 131 Living With Fire: Big Sur - Marcus Foster on the Timber Fire, Local Knowledge, and What Comes Next

# 130 Melting Point: Rachel Cockerell on Family, Memory, and the Promised Land

# 129 Love Means I’ll Be Here Tomorrow: Father Cyprian Consiglio on music, monastic life, Big Sur, Rome, and the discipline of staying.

# 128 From Tehran to the Akasha: Rohini Moradi on grief, ancient wisdom, and the search for meaning

# 127 Letting People In on the Secret: Stuart Thornton on Big Sur, Guidebooks & the Crowds They Create

# 126 What Are We Really Protecting? Carol Olson, Wilderness, and the Future of Big Sur

# 125 OUT OF THE SKY by Matti Friedman

# 124 The Language of Trees — and the World We’ve Forgotten How to Read

# 123 "Condors: Guardians of the Wild" with Joe Burnett

# 122 Help Kelp: The Mysterious World of the Bull Kelp Forest with Josie Iselin

# 121 Love, Love, Love: Alison van Diggelen on 'The Love Project.'

# 120 Shamergence by Rob Somers

# 119 Walking Toward the Stars — A Conversation with Brita Ostrom (Öström)

# 118 Andrew Munn: From Experimental Sound to Operatic Myth

# 117 Kendra and Matt: Here's Your Song!

# 116 Steve Beck, Master Gardener

# 115 Kangalee & The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder

# 114 The ENDURING WILD: Journeys Beyond the National Parks with author Josh Jackson.

# 113 Patte Kronlund, speaking of love and loss.

# 112 Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy

# 111 RELAY FOR RACHAEL. A conversation with photographer, neighbor and dear friend Rachael Short.

# 110 Butch Kronlund (Jan. 7, 1955 - Feb. 1, 2025) from 'Under the Persimmon Tree' September 29, 2019.

# 109 Rode in on a Hell's Angel Harley: Mary Lu Spigarelli Toren of Big Sur.

# 108 Clovis Harrod. A replay of this episode from February 2023.

# 107 Wilderness, Health, Fire, Art, Music, Learning, Food and History : Big Sur Non Profits!

# 106 Humpbacks, Tide pools, Ed Ricketts, Jan Straley and Wave Shocks!

# 105 An update from Dan Weiss from his home in Bet Shemesh, Israel.

# 104 The 'lost' interview with John Carlin: FOUND!

# 103 God, Jack Kerouac and Steve Edington.

# 102 We Choose to Reduce Wildfire Danger, Not Because It Is Natural But Because It Is Good

# 101 The Natural History of Big Sur. A conversation with author Don Usner.

# 100 The Hermits of Big Sur. A conversation with author Paula Huston

# 99 Sharen Carey: 40 years of providing healthcare in Big Sur!

# 98 On the Warpath: My Battles With Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors

# 97 Breakfast at Deetjen's with Shelley Newell

# 96 Iguana John speaks about his early life.

# 95 Dave Nelson: Father, Husband, Naturalist & Big Sur Neighbor...

# 94 The California Skywatcher: A conversation with author William Selby

# 93 My Father Shot a Tiger: Talking about Nagaland with Easterine Kire

# 92 How did it begin...did I meet "Headhunters?" Why, and how, did I travel up into these hills.

# 91 Listening to Whales breathe! A conversation with Kerri Frangioso, a scientist who does most of her research in the wild of Big Sur.

# 90 Israel and Gaza. Perspectives on the war in Gaza from Sweden.

# 89 SMOKESCREEN | Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate

# 88 California (& Big Sur) Snakes & How To Find Them

# 87 Sam Goldeen. From the Ukraine, via the Panama land crossing, to Big Sur!

# 86 Jaime DeAngulo: The Old Coyote of Big Sur

# 85 FUEL FOR THOUGHT! Is removing vegetation keeping us safe from fire? A conversation with Richard Halsey.

# 84 Butterflies of Big Sur and Monterey County.

# 83 A conversation with Corinne & John Handy of Treebones!

# 82 Wishing everyone a boring 2024!

# 81 Big Sur's ongoing efforts to protect the landscape : A Conversation with David Smiley

# 80 Is Big Sur being overused? A conversation with Marcus Foster of Keep Big Sur Wild.

# 79 Quiet Days in Clichy - Jours Tranquilles a Clichy - A beautiful new French edition. With Charles Ficat and Michael Paduano in Paris.

# 78 The Burden of Joy. A conversation with author Lexi Kent-Monning. "We were stranded on opposite sides of the crashed Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge!"

# 77 Paul Kephart: Ecologist and naturalist with a deep history, love and knowledge of the Big Sur coast.

# 76 My friend Dan Weiss reports from the war in Israel. Please listen.

# 75 Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night w/ José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca and Charles Hood

# 74 California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. Magnus is talking with author Rosanna Xia.

# 73 State Senator John Laird: Once you left Carmel Highlands and went south you were in the Wild West!

# 72 Feathered Canyons: Big Sur circa 1964! Author Jeanette Hanby at Nepenthe with Bill Hargis, Eric Barker, Gold mining, watching lions! A typical Big Sur story!

# 71 A conversation at a small café in rural North Carolina

# 70 Big Sur Women with Rachel Anne Goodman

# 69 The Manhattan Project, Porter, Jackson, Miller & Oppenheimer

# 68 Kate Daniels, candidate for the 5th district Supervisor seat. The future of Big Sur is in the balance😊!

# 67 The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf

# 65 A conversation with Weston Call's Mother on the occasion of his Birthday and the five year anniversary of his passing..

# 64 From Easter Island to Big Sur: Please welcome Sonia Haoa Cardinali!

# 63 The Questions That Matter Most with Jane Smiley. Also featuring Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Shakespeare and Alice Munro!

# 62 Pico Iyer | The Half Known Life | New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, Jerusalem, Greece, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Merton, Dalai Lama, Cyprian, Japan, Tahiti...

# 61 A new book by Henry Miller! The Book of Conversations with David Edgar.

# 60 Big Sur Ronna Rio Riding Water Buffaloes, Giraffes & Teaching Art!

# 59 Israeli journalist and writer Yossi Klein Halevi.

# 58 Darryl Purpose: Writing Songs, Playing Blackjack, Telling Stories and the Great March!

# 57 Joshua Yaffa of the New Yorker magazine speaks with Magnus about journalism in wartime Ukraine and Russia.

# 56 Stranded, Finding Nature In Uncertain Times by Maddalena Bearzi

# 55 The Revolt of The Public. A conversation with author and former CIA analyst Martin Gurri.

# 54 Betty Withrow. From as high up, and deep, in Big Sur as one can get!

# 52 Palestine's leading writer, Raja Shehadeh. From Ramallah, West Bank/Judea

#51 Big Sur Wild Woman! Dana Carnazzo Godbe. Chapter 2! 😊

# 50 You And Me And The Rain On The Roof / Raining in Big Sur!

# 49 Zad and Laela Leavy: Protecting the Big Sur coast by creating the Big Sur Land Trust.

# 48 Dana Godbe Carnazzo, a Big Sur Wild Woman! Part 1.

#47 Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. A conversation with author Matti Friedman

# 46 The Heaven Beyond Heaven: William (Bill) Ashley about publishing and collecting Henry Miller.

# 45 BIG SUR FIRE ADAPTED COMMUNITY TOWN HALL, October 25, 2022

#44 A conversation with Kerri Maher, author of The Paris Bookseller

#43 Big Sur Fire Chief Matt Harris in a conversation with Magnus Torén.

#42 MY SECRET PLACE: A conversation with author, songwriter and performer, Mac Talley.

#41 Lovers of The Place: A conversation between Pico Iyer and Cyprian Consiglio

#40 Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb. A conversation with author Togzhan Kassenova

#39 Big Sur Softball League History w/ Chris Counts, and the cliffhanger final game 2022!

#38 Kelly Sorenson, Executive Director, Ventana Wildlife Society

#37 Marcos Ortega, Big Sur resident and Big Sur District Superintendent of California State Parks.

#36 Driving the Abano Pass in Georgia