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Talk of Iowa

Iowa Public Radio

Talk of Iowa is a place for Iowans to connect to our shared culture and what it means to live in Iowa. Host Charity Nebbe brings a mix of regular guests and a range of experts to discuss the arts, history, literature and everything else happening in Iowa. Every day brings something new — even if it"s in a recurring segment like Talk of Iowa Book Club or comes from a familiar voice on Horticulture Day.

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47:57

Dump the landfill, not your trash

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/16

How to avoid creating trash in Iowa — from repairing your things instead of replacing them, to recycling and composting and more.

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47:58

A behind-the-scenes look at one of Iowa's greatest...

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2025/07/15

New PBS documentary Behind the Blue Ribbon shows a side of the Iowa State Fair you haven't seen before. And, an Iowa City physics teacher is a finalist for a prestigious national award.

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47:47

Learn how plants and insects can peacefully coexist...

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2025/07/12

Insects are essential for a healthy ecosystem, but it can be hard not to see some insects as pests.

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47:34

Celebrating the 33rd annual Iowa Municipal Band Festival

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2025/07/11

Iowa communities celebrate a long musical tradition. Then, two Brazilian musicians say their farewell to Iowa.

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48:06

Iowa museum shows the racist items that were once...

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2025/07/10

A visit to the African American Museum of Iowa, then a conversation with a mother and son artist and filmmaker duo.

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47:54

Documentary shows how pie is baked into Iowa's...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/09

Author Beth Howard draws similarities between baking a pie and making a documentary film. Then, we hear from the founder of the Middle of NOWhere Rural Art & Music Festival.

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47:32

How the Meskwaki People reclaimed their homeland

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/08

The book Red Earth Nation tells the history of the Meskwaki Nation, spanning from the Red Earth People's creation to the 21st century.

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48:05

A very moooving discussion on the domestication of...

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2025/07/04

For many of the domesticated animals we live with, it’s pretty easy to see how they might be related to their wild ancestors — but where did cattle come from?

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48:03

Iowa's only jazz radio station turns 50

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/03

KCCK is Iowa's only jazz-formatted radio station, but it's influence goes beyond the airwaves.

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47:59

Discovering radical self-worth in a year of celibacy

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/02

A conversation with author Melissa Febos on her latest novel, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year without Sex. Then, an expert on Iowa's most famous Muppet.

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47:55

A dugout canoe gives Iowans the opportunity to touch...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/07/01

For thousands of years, dugout canoes were a vital form of transportation for Indigenous Americans.

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47:46

Maintaining your naturalist garden

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2025/06/28

A Des Moines-based planting designer helped readers launch an ecologically vibrant home garden. His latest book guides you through maintaining that garden.

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39:50

Celebrating 100 years of radio and the start of...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/26

Charity Nebbe and her guests explore the history of WOI and WSUI, now part of Iowa Public Radio, two of the oldest radio stations in the country.

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40:32

Iowans band together to unearth and preserve mastodon...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/25

Last summer, University of Iowa archaeologists uncovered the first-ever well-preserved mastodon skull scientifically excavated in Wayne County. That was only the beginning of this community minded project.

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42:08

A woman's 9-year journey to the finish of a 100-mile...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/24

Julie Moffitt, 57, dreamed of running Western States, a 100-mile race through California's grueling Sierra Nevada Mountains. Almost a decade later, she made it to the finish.

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41:04

How to grow and keep your grass green

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2025/06/21

Horticulture specialists give their lawn care tips and answer listener questions.

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40:31

Iowa's significance on the Underground Railroad

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2025/06/20

Historians discuss Iowa's significance as a part of the Underground Railroad.

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47:56

Iowa's first transgender state representative shares...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/19

Rep. Aime Wichendal, the first transgender woman elected to the Iowa Statehouse, talks about being transgender in Iowa and watching gender identity being removed from the Iowa Civil Rights Code during her first session.

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47:52

How a shuttered Iowa college became the home of...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/18

From 1875 to 1973, Fairfield, Iowa was home to Parsons College. When the school closed, it left a major void in the community, which that was quickly filled by an another — unconventional — university.

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48:05

How the year 1963 transformed the Civil Rights...

Talk of Iowa ·

2025/06/17

A conversation with author Peniel Joseph about his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution.

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