Our most recent guest,
Karen Dawn,
Media Watchdog & Author
May
7
GUEST: Karen Dawn--a veteran Los Angeles-based
and nationally-recognized media watchdog, specializing
in animal coverage; her DawnWatch e-mail alerts call
attention to radio, television and print pieces about
animals or, sometimes, health, nutrition, the environment
...more->
Our
April 9 show
Another recent guest,
Gene Baur,
Farm Sanctuary Cofounder
April 9,
2008
GUEST: Gene Baur--the cofounder and president
of The Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal
protection organization--discusses his new book, "Farm
Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals And
Food," (an acclaimed crazy quilt of a book whose
patches include a Baur bio, both a history and current
account of The Farm Sanctuary, chapter-ending profiles
of rescued animals living at their Watkins Glen, NY
and Orland, CA sanctuaries and more->
About “Talking Animals”
Hosted by Duncan Strauss, "Talking Animals"
started as a weekly, hour-long radio show about animals and animal
issues that was carried on KUCI (88.9FM)-- the college/community
public radio station that broadcasts from the University of California
at Irvine--until the end of October 2005, when Strauss and his family
moved to Florida.
WMNF (88.5FM)--a 70,000-watt, community-oriented NPR station
in Tampa, Florida--now airs a half-hour version of "Talking
Animals" on the first and second Wednesday of each month, 11:30
a.m. to noon EST.
While “Talking Animals” consists of multiple
elements--including animals news, animal songs, animal comedy, and
our quick quiz feature, “Name That Animal Tune”-- the true heart
of the show is the interview we conduct with some notable inhabitant
of some province of the animal world. This has ranged from such
longtime luminaries as Jean-Michel
Cousteau, Temple
Grandin, Peter Singer,
Paul Watson and
Monty Roberts, to
those who run shelters and sanctuaries like Pat
Derby (PAWS/ARK 2000), Tippi
Hedren (Shambala Preserve), Gene
Bauston (The Farm Sanctuary) and Carol
Buckley (The Elephant Sanctuary), plus separate interviews with
three founders of Best
Friends Animal Society; veteran activists like Ingrid
Newkirk and Dan Matthews
(both of Peta), and Chris
DeRose (Last Chance For Animals), as well as veterinarians,
biologists, folks who run rescue organizations, assorted animal
experts, and many more.