AK: Radio's Last Frontier Podcasts

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AK, the award-winning newsmagazine from the Alaska Public Radio Network. Each week, AK gathers the sounds and stories of contemporary Alaska into a compelling radio program that covers the state from the frozen North Slope to soggy Southeast. Primary Format : Public Radio Also Listed as: Public Radio City : Anchorage State/Province : AK Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: stories | Radio | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of AK: Radio\'s Last Frontier Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of AK: Radio\'s Last Frontier Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of AK: Radio\'s Last Frontier Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. AK: The Way Things Were From the big ideas that drew in mid-century Americans seeking adventure to the small furs that brought Russians before that, we look back through Alaskan history as our 50th anniversary of Statehood series continues. We look back at aviation, healthcare, the earthquake that, ironically, stabilized Alaska’s economy and the art created on America’s beautiful Last [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Ethical Dilemmas This week on AK we face some ethical dilemmas. As a state, we’ve had our share of them lately. We’ll ponder why these ethical breaches by elected officials are cropping up in Alaska and learn how Senator Stevens’ case is being used in anti-corruption training in Africa. Plus, is it right to plough under farmland [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Prepping for Winter This week on AK we’re getting ready for winter. We’ll tag along as Alaskans stock their freezer with fish and blueberries. We’ll hunt for firewood, and meet one man’s pet wood stove: Princess. Plus the environmental effects of increased wood burning and we look at a new fire safety game. All that and more this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Best of Summer This week on AK we look back at the best of the summer, or what there was of it. From a series of volcanic eruptions in the Aleutians to a new-found interest in local farmers markets. Plus, making your living off Alaska’s summer festivals, a totem pole dedicated to a Japanese photographer and a visit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: The Road to Statehood This week on AK we’re beginning our look back at to the earliest days of Alaska’s statehood. We’ll look at the forces that moved Alaska closer to becoming a state — or held it back: from the military to mining, fish to friendships. Plus, how a popular novel played a role, and memories of an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Sarah Palin, Revisited This week we take another look at Governor — and now Vice-Presidential candidate — Sarah Palin. When our show first aired in February 2008, talk of Palin for VP seemed like wild speculation. Now that she IS the Republican nominee, we’ll revisit that show: the kudos and critiques from Alaskans and the interview with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Gigs This week we take a look at folks who do some interesting things for a living. We talk to a spinner who works with merino wool, follow some fellows down a mine shaft and talk to a woman who explains in a new children’s book why some mommies wear combat boots. Plus we check out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Remote, Resourceful, Resilient Rural Alaska This week on AK, we learn the 3 R’s that define rural Alaska: Remote, Resourceful, and Resilient. We’ll drop in on the Rural Providers Conference and find out why cell phones don’t work in Yakutat. Plus, a chat with author Seth Kantner about his rugged rural upbringing, and find out how the new Farm Bill [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Russians in Alaska This week we dig into Alaska’s ties with Russia — both new and old. Celebrate the 200th anniversary of an early Russian Orthodox Mission, and in Sitka, Lord Baranof gets a makeover. Plus, the ins and outs of visiting Chukotka today and protesting off-shore drilling on both sides of the north Pacific. All that and more [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Russians in Alaska", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/06/07/ak-russians-in-alaska/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Gold This week on AK, we go looking for gold. With prices over $900 and ounce, is Alaska in the midst of a new gold rush? We’ll visit some hot prospects in the Kuskokwim region and meet a guy who can help you find your own precious nuggets. Plus, using sex and music to find a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Gold", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/05/31/ak-gold/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Remembering and Forgetting This week on AK, we Remember and we Forget. We’ll sample some Alaskan foods said to boost your memory power, and explore the world of Alzheimer’s. We’ll remember a well-loved boat in Petersburg, and visit one man’s personal collection of Elvis memorabilia. Plus, why the Forget-Me-Not won’t let you forget it. All that and more this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Remembering and Forgetting", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/05/24/ak-remembering-and-forgetting/" ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Waste This week on AK, we go to Waste. We’ll find out the latest ways to reduce trash at the airport and learn how to prevent our old cars, tires and chicken coops from going to waste — through the power of Tradio. Plus, wasted fish, fish waste and kicking recycling up a notch in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Waste", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/05/17/ak-waste/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Mom In honor of Mothers’ Day we pay tribute to Mom. We’ll meet an Anchorage teen who already teaches parenting class and learn about becoming a therapeutic foster mom. Plus, interviews with the mothers of two world-class Alaskan athletes who’ve faced some pretty tough odds — Kikkan Randall and Lance Mackey — and the legend of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Mom", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/05/12/ak-mom/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Elders May is Older Americans Month, so this week we salute our Elders. We’ll speak with a woman who, in 1960, became Alaska’s first African-American teacher and meet seniors who say your golden years are when your life begins. Plus, “Where to Retire” magazine recently called Anchorage a retirement “tax heaven,” but is it really an [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Elders", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/05/03/ak-elders/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Where We Live This week we take a look at Where We Live and explore ways to show it off. From a new TV show that shows the world just how tough Alaskans really are to niche markets for tourism — a dog sled ride en espanol, anyone? Plus, designing greener buildings in Juneau and training the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Where We Live", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/04/26/ak-where-we-live/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Earth Day (2008) April 22nd is Earth Day, and this week we pay tribute to the planet. We’ll learn about sustainable agriculture, and visit a hotel that runs on the same stuff you use to cook your French fries. Plus, recycling old Crocs, and figuring out which plastic bottles are safe, and which ones might land you in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AK: Earth Day (2008)", url: "http://aprn.org/2008/04/19/ak-earth-day-2008/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Keeping the Faith This week on AK, we’re Keeping the Faith. We’ll visit the Mt. Bether Bible Center, a farm community outside Hoonah, and check into the turmoil in the Russian Orthodox Church. Sing along with Anchorage’s multicultural church choirs, dip into a little Zen, and ask, when it comes to Passover, why is this state different from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Transplants This week on AK we look at transplants, from donating organs to relocating to Alaska. We chat with up-and-coming leaders — of the homegrown variety — and hear the sounds of calypso, transplanted from the Caribbean to the Last Frontier. Plus, saving the rhubarb, and a local, lyrical tribute to National Poetry Month. All that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer We all know someone who Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer, this week on AK we meet a few — from a forest service biologist who testified against Tongass timber sales, to a guy who spends his time alone, next to a river, in a tent. Plus, a new documentary about Alaska’s most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Under Water (Part 2) This week our underwater adventure continues. We’ll splash around with some synchronized swimming champs, and submerge ourselves in a mean game of underwater hockey. Plus, taking a trip to Naknek’s pool and Anchorage’s Safe Harbor, and exploring the rising tide of waterbirth. All that and more this week on AK, heard statewide on local APRN [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Under Water (Part 1) This week we go Under Water. We’ll visit Southeast’s very own Atlantis and learn about a proposed fast ferry that might be a bit slow in coming. Plus, in preparation for Tsunami Awareness Week, stories from tsunami survivors and a trip to Palmer’s Tsunami Warning Center — one of just two in the U.S. All [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Not For Profit In the state of Alaska, we have one nonprofit organization for every 77 people. No joke. So this week we take a look at Alaska’s Not-For-Profits, and find out why so many? Plus, plaintiffs from the Exxon Valdez case who are hoping for a profit — or at least a payback — and a Windy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Iditarod (Etc.) It’s Iditarod time, so this week we’re jumping into the Last Great Race — and some other things, too. Like the Junior Olympics in Anchorage, Kenyan acrobats in Dillingham, and the snowy slopes at Hatcher Pass. Plus, an axe-throwing bartender in Juneau who’s throwing in the towel. All that and more this week on AK, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: The Short End of the Stick This week on AK we learn what happens to Juneau if the capitol moves, see what it’s like to live with autism in a small town, and revisit the Writers Guild strike with one of Alaska’s two WGA members. Plus, the science of leap years and an ex-NFL player who’s helping kids on the short [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Scams, Fakes, Phonies & Cheats This week on AK… the con is on! We’ll hear legends of Alaska’s most notorious shysters, and get the scoop on counterfeit Alaska Native art. Plus, avoiding the pitfalls of mortgage fraud, and what happens when military spouses become targets of some serious double dealing? We’ll find out, this week on AK from APRN. ShareThis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: The Birds & The Bees This week on AK… Valentine’s Day is approaching and love is in the air, so what better time to get a lesson on The Birds & The Bees? We’ll learn about sexuality education in Alaska’s schools and meet a couple who are testing their love on an eco-friendly trek across Alaska. Plus, tracking magpie migration [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Sarah Palin This week on AK: The Gov. We’re taking a look at Sarah Palin, finding out what makes the First-in-Command of the Last Frontier tick. Hear kudos and critiques from fellow Alaskans and an interview with the college student who’s hoping to draft Sarah P. for VP. Plus, moving Shakespeare’s famous “Moor” up to Alaska. All [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web Extra: Ten minutes with Sarah Palin In preparation for this week’s edition of AK, host Rebecca Sheir spent some time interviewing Alaska’s first female and remarkably popular Governor — Sarah Palin. Portions of the interview appear in the complete AK show this week, but this extended version (9 min, 32 sec) is the complete and uncut edition. Enjoy! ShareThis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Congressman Don Young releases fundraising numbers A federal campaign funding report shows that Congressman Don Young received nearly $45,000 in contributions last quarter but paid out more than $425,000 in legal fees. Young brought in nearly $30,000 from individual contributors, only five of them with Alaska addresses. He pulled in more than $15,000 from various political committees. Joel Southern, APRN - Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Adoption This week on AK we take a look at adopting children overseas and adopting culture right at home. We’ll meet a grandmother who’s parenting all over again, and a woman who, against all odds, helped save her adoptive father’s life. Plus, adapting to new circumstances, when life throws you a curve ball. All that and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Wolves This week on AK we come face-to-face with Wolves. We’ll go behind the scenes at an organization raising awareness about wolves, take a look at predator control, and learn the legend of Hairy Man. Plus, putting the Boy Who Cried Wolf on trial, and they say it’s news when “man bites dog”; in Alaska these [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Chasing the Sun It’s cold, it’s dark and summer seems oh-so-far away. So on this week’s AK, we’ll go Chasing the Sun — from solar-powered homes in Palmer to steamy tropical dancing in Juneau. Plus, the mother of Alaska legend Fred Frontier has been chasing her own “son” — in hopes of getting to the bottom of a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Birth and Rebirth (Encore Edition) This week on AK, we dig into the archives and present an encore edition of our “Birth & Rebirth” show from January 8, 2005. We’ll hear about boot camp for new dads and learn what it’s like to give birth in rural Alaska. Plus, meet an Anchorage resident who started her life anew… after surviving [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Giving ‘Tis the season for Giving, so on this week’s AK, we’re doing just that. We’ll meet two sisters who’ve given AIDS orphans in Africa a home and a philanthropist who gives to renewable energy projects — while he’s still in high school. Plus, forgiving those who’ve done you wrong and why some people think the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Keeping Up with the Joneses This week we’re Keeping Up With the Joneses. From the legend of Sea Otter Jones to the adventures of a modern-day frontierswoman named Joan. Plus, how ‘jonesing’ for Alaska led one man to build a boat and sail it — all the way from Arkansas. And how seal throats and iPod Nanos are helping one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Stressed Out This week on AK we stress out. We’ll find out what happens when you lose your livelihood — and you’re a cow — and learn the secrets of making your workplace anxiety-free. Plus, think you’re stressed out by holiday shopping? Wait’ll you hit the post office. And meet a Yakutat retailer who’s scrambling for business. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Leftovers This week we’re reaching into the back of the fridge and pulling out the leftovers. We’ll attend a Leftovers Party in Fairbanks, and make sure nothing’s left over at an Anchorage taxidermy shop. Plus, using dilapidated docks to heat a Dillingham home, and the story of an Alaska man who “left” the Middle East “over” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Crossed Signals & Miscommunication This week on AK, we get our signals crossed. We’ll hear about some bears who were being sent some very mixed signals and learn ways to bridge the gap between the deaf community and the hearing. Plus, how one Alaska public radio station nearly lost its signal — thanks to one fishy culprit. The miscues and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Word Up! On the next AK, we’ll have a word or two about, well, Words. We’ll explore the connections between Athabascan words and climate change, and hear from some AK listeners who aren’t just marking their words, they’re making them up. Plus word of mouth — and body, too — and learning your mother tongue as a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: In the Trenches This week we’re going In the Trenches. We’ll dive to the bottom of Alaska’s ocean trenches and meet a doctor deep in the trenches of the Emergency Room. Plus, Alaskans recall their time at war — on land and in the sky. And we’ll hear from soldiers who have recently made the long journey home. All [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Home This week on AK, we’re heading Home — to tent camps in the woods, retirement homes on the waterfront, and the Pioneers Home, at the end of life. Plus, listen in as Alaska troops return home from war, and the debate over eagles making their home in Homer. All that and more on AK, from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Coming Together This week on AK, we come together at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) convention in Fairbanks and all around the state. Balloon animals, horses, rappers, playwrights, Alaska Natives, environmentalists — and a ghost — all hang out with us on the Last Frontier. All that and more on AK, from APRN stations statewide, starting today. Share [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: On the Bottom This week, we go down to the bottom. We’ll dive to some sunken ships in Southeast, check out the controversy at the bottom of an open-pit mine and meet a woman whose homemade hula hoops make for one heck of a booty bump. Plus, who owns the bottom of the ocean — do you know? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Learning This week we’re hitting the books… and the buttons, the gears, the binoculars, too. We’ll learn the ABCs and 123s of producing your own news show, rebuilding your own diesel engine and tracking your favorite birds. Plus, learning to play the piano — from a teacher that’s anything but human — and getting your GED… [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Murder & Mayhem We revisit the Cache Creek Murders of 1939, and hear about a new vampire movie that takes place in Barrow — it was shot in New Zealand, but hey, who doesn’t get the two mixed up? Plus, killing off invasive northern pike in Yakutat and spreading literary mayhem across the state. All that and more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: PFD It’s that time of year again — time for the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). And in its honor, we give a little TLC to the PFD. We’ll find out how the whole thing works and dish about PFD fraud — plus we’ll hear about Preserving Fundamental Dialects, get a lesson in Pickling For Dummies and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Running This week on AK, we’re on the Run. We’ll take our marks with some running bears, get set with a Fairbanks marathoner who’s not afraid to show some leg, and go… to Southeast, where the scow girls are running one tight ship. Plus, a Vietnam vet whose good deeds run the gamut and a balloon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Rising Last week we fell, this week we’re on the rise. We meet a man who’s risen from poverty in Latin America to park service in the Great Land and a flute player who’s rising past the challenges of FASD. Plus, going up, up and away with a weather balloon in Nome and taking a look [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Falling From poets falling in love to politicians falling from grace. The number of state recreation area users is falling — we’ll find out why — and we’ll visit Southeast, where instead of falling from trees, we’ll zip right through them. Plus, a chat with NPR’s Corey Flintoff during his last days in Iraq. Those stories [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Payback We get even-steven with stories of gold rush revenge, we take a look at Exxon's failure to payback the fishermen, and we straighten out the railroad tracks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alaska Wonder The Bronx Museum, biking to Inuvik, a Juneau playground and how to make a parka out of bird skins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Alaska Wonder A recent online poll named seven new Wonders of the World. Alaska didn’t make the cut, but we all know the Great Land has plenty of wonders of its own. This week we take a look at these wonders — by bike, by kayak and by the Bronx, where one Alaska-born collector has turned his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Sports This week we check out some year-round skiing — atop a glacier — and meet a running pro who kicked breast cancer and now kicks butt. We’ll visit Dillingham, where the Little League isn’t always so “little,” and Juneau, where it takes a whole town to play one game of football. And what happens when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sports We ski glaciers, play college baseball, check in with the Little League and run a marathon. Whew! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: The Five Senses (PRNDI 2007 Award-Winner) This week on AK, we listen again to our national award-winning show, “The Five Senses.” This episode, from last November, recently took first place in a national competition hosted by Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI). We’re taking a late summer vacation and wanted to celebrate the win as well as share the winning show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Encore Best of AK A reprise of our prize-winning show of November, 2006 in which we explore the five senses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Best in Show This week on AK, we listen again to some of our best stories from the past year. Tune in this weekend on most APRN stations statewide (check our usually-accurate listings here), or subscribe to our podcast. Share This Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best In Show We select some of our favorite stories of the past year or so and re-run them here with updated host introductions and updated music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sheir covers WEIO events for Only a Game During the recent World Eskimo-Indian Olympics in Anchorage, AK’s Rebecca Sheir took camera and microphone to the events and captured a story for Only a Game, the weekly WBUR / NPR sports show distributed to public radio stations across the country (including here in Alaska, though not in Anchorage). Sheir’s story — the audio plus a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Float the Boat All ferry, all the time. AK goes to sea to visit coastal communities like Tenakee Springs, we help clean up Big Lake and generally catch the sea air in a special sea-faring show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AK: Float the Boat This week on AK, we float the boat. We’ll take a ride to Tenakee Springs on the Alaska Marine Highway, and hop on board with the Inter-Island Ferry Authority. We’ll find out why Big Lake is facing such big pollution, and learn about a boat that just might help bring ferry service to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘AK’ wins top national honors third year in a row AK — APRN’s weekly radio newsmagazine — was chosen as the Best News and Public Affairs Program in the nation for the third consecutive year by the members of Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI), at its awards ceremony Saturday in New Orleans. AK has now won the award for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fieldwork We visit kelp farmers, help build the Yakutat Trail, fly with the state's only aerial seeder, buy land by the inch, and find out why Barrow burial sites are being rescued. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mail We find out about rural Alaska post offices, visit the FEDEX hub in Anchorage, re-visit by-pass mail, and find out why free shipping does not include Alaska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Independence We ride trail with the Vietnam Vets, find out about the amazing Fannie Quigley, visit the old claimsite at Independence Mine and generally have a good time at July Fourth celebrations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Cycles From birth to death and everything in between. We learn about coming of age traditions in Mexico, visit a wedding, hear about alternative medicine, talk to senior citizens and take a walk through Anchorage's cemetery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fashion We visit the women prisoners of the Hiland Mountain Garment Shop, find out what makes a ruralsexual, learn who's obsessed with outdoor gear and find that little bit of bling in all Alaskans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daydreams We get our dreams interpreted, take a sauna with some pretty strange guys, stay up late with Brookelyn Bellinger, travel to Kennecott with the Kenny Lake documentary crew and hit a Midnight Sun kegger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aviation We meet bush pilots and take a trip back in time with Russel Merrill, recall flying in Fairbanks, build a plane and learn how to survive a water crash. And go paragliding, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denali Who was the first to summit Denali, why are people still calling it Mt. McKinley, a visit to Glitter Gulch and rememberances of a heroic ranger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rites of Passage Graduation, passengers bill of rights, Ada Blackjack"s ordeal on Wrangel Island, Hooper Bay testing, Raven"s Way and teen drinking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trees We visit with author Michael Chabon, meet the urban beaver, find our Jewish ancestor in the most unlikely place, watch over the shoulder of a paper artist, and grow and apple tree. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visitors and Tourists Filipino rock stars, lemmings, our relatives -- they all find Alaska irresistable, and a vacation here is a dream come true for them. Join us as we welcome visitors to Fort Yukon, Chevak, Anchorage and Unalaska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Risky Business We find the elusive nuclear missile silo, play a new version of "Risk", learn to use a shotgun, and hang out with some whalers after a strike. Oh, and the Int. Whaling Commiss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breakup Broken romances, broken ice, either way, it is a difficult period. So get out the breakup boots for this one, full o remorse, therapy and potential healing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Day We eat healthy at the Taproot Café, visit organic farms in Fairbanks, and fight to keep an Alaska river clean. And we check out our carbon footprint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ups and Downs The peaks and valleys of the Great Land, we ski downhill and climb back up again, visit the rock star fishermen of the Deadliest Catch, get stranded in the snow and tap our toes to the bluegrass beat of Joe Page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Missing the Boat Visit with Mike Gravel, look back on the achievements of Eben Hopson, Sr., find out about geothermal energy and how movie stars are made. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery Did UFOs visit Alaska? Who is the Mystery Shopper? Where do the mystery writers gather? Who did in the old timers in Southeast? Lots of questions on this show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Office Find out about feng-shui, visit the IT guy on the job, gossip around the water cooler with the rest of the slackers, and take the last Combie flight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luck Is it luck or is it preparedness. We look at mushers' talismans, talk to poker sharks, and wonder about the connection between the Irish and the Yupik peoples. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do It Yourself Alaskans are pretty extreme when it comes to Do-It-Yourself: from fixing to plumb to reconsutrcting whale skeletons, learning to sing, and raising chickens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iditarod We go to the dogs with the Last Great Race. We check out the underwater dog treadmill, meet Adventure Girl, talk to Iditarod pundit Jon Little and get the inside scoop on why Iditarod lover and Iditarod haters can be friends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War and Peace Stories about Alaskans caught in wars.. From paratroopers in Iraq to WW II's Battle of Attu. And peace proposals, a military wedding gone awry, and the pollution left over after the military leaves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neighbors Love them or hate them, they are part of our lives. We hear about the best ones, and the worst. Get mad over bad lawn care, and watch a slum struggle to become a respectable neighborhood. All that and gospel, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heat We read steamy romance novels, take a steam bath, make our own magma and ride the Pineapple Express. Plus, we hear the Arctic version of Mozart's Magic Flute and hear from an outspoken public on a coal mining plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Chance A transgender speaks out, we learn about adopted dogs, find treasures in second-hand stores, listen to some head-banging music and speak with the new director of Out North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bears We learn about bear spray, visit with polar bear Ahpun at the Alaska Zoo, hear about the urban bear expert, find out what it's like to be barenaked in front of an audience, cheer on the Chicago Bears, find out about bear GPS collars and get chased by a black bear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health We talk to a man who says he defeated cancer, we learn about macular degeneration, hear an audio diary from an Alaskan in Africa who works with AIDS patients, meet Dr. Baines from Unalaska, and get a glimpse of the new CD from Anchorage bass player Meg Anderson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screwed Whether by Nature, by fraud, or by fate, we have all been screwed at one time or another. Hear horror stories about practical jokes, home remodels and sterilized wolves. And find out where screws come from in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future Alaska We talk to Bill Oefelein, the first Alaskan in orbit, while he is on the Space Shuttle Discovery, we track progress on alternative energy, take a peek at Alaska in the year 2025, and worry about the end of oil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Holiday stories for all faiths. We rock around the Christmas tree, spin the little dreidel, and hang the mistletoe. All the while listening to Jack Dalton's Yupik stories and humming holiday tunes. Wassail! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aging Alaska is growing up, and its people are getting older. We celebrate age with a 91-year-old DJ, drink mead, watch out for scams directed at the elderly, and eat cheese made at Windsong Farm. And do blondes really have more fun? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alaska Cuisine Is there a cuisine Alaska can call its own? Many in the know say yes. And we learn how to eat muktuk, interview a Food Network winner, and figure out the whys and wherefores of espresso from the viewpoint of a child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots Alaska attracts the rootless, but some people get here and find out that this is the one place they want to stay. We finish Kay Fanning's book, meet Ernestine Hayes, and find out how one AK staffer got here in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Five Senses We tan hides in Venetie, eat Unalaska blueberries, learn about MCS and find out why we don't sound like we look. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Law and Order We talk to a VPSO, get dazzled by a lawyer's magic tricks, visit a dog mushing lawyer, and find out what happens to babies whose mothers are in prison. And we talk to the folks at the Family Law Self Help Center, too Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elections Alaska is notorious for close elections. We hear about some of the closest, and hear about how young people get into politics. We talk to one of the primary losers, and dance to the Tony and Sarah remix. All this and Terry Holder's music, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haunted Alaska A curse on Chitina, a haunted building in Unalaska, watch out for a strange woman in white in the Wendy Williamson auditorium in Anchorage, trick or treats in Kotzebue, a sky full of UFOs and a football obsessed woman. Now, that is really strange. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Literacy and Learning We meet a man just learning to read at age 56, we find out about one dad's struggle with learning Russian, learn about special education programs in Anchorage and find out about literacy projects Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Resurrection We visit Russian Orthodox churches under reconstruction, wield swords with the Highland Recrudescence gang, find out why Resurrections Bay is thus called, and wonder about an afterllife with Dan Przywojski Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Out Our last show, at least for a while. We visit with Mr. Whitekeys as he shuts down the Fly-By-Night Club; hear the song stylings of Gakona's Becca McMahan, and hear from distressed listeners as AK goes off the air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Show AK takes a stroll down memory lane and pulls out some favorites from the AK annals. Jump inside the belly of a beluga, get cozy with Uncle Ted, and come along as AK goes Hollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russia We eat pieroshki, visit the Samovar Café, find out about the old Sitka capitol, and discover some interesting things about polar bears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back To School We talk to a dyslexic schoolgirl and her mother, we find out what teachers heading out to the bush need to take with them, and we work on our dog poo compost piles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunting and Gathering We go berry picking at a secret spot, herd reindeer, gather in foster children and go combat fishing. And don't forget finding those great garage sale deals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reclamation We find a lost identity, go beachcombing in Sitka, conquer aquaphobia, and try to put out the underground coal fires in Sutton. Also, an interview with Medicine Dream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love and Marriage What's it like to get married at thirty below zero, a fifty-year marriage, gay marriage denied, long distance love and Inuit singing rocks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Particular Theme We meet a variety of people. One man drifted for days in a powerless skiff off Unalaska, others dive off bridges for fun. We tour Barrow on a school bus, and find out about Samoan gang violence in Anchorage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting By and Getting Ahead We'll meet some creative entrepreneurs, trying to make a few bucks on everything from worm juice and pancakes to caffeinated lip balm. Tag along as one young woman strives for her first real job. Plus, moving to America for its opportunities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vices and Addictions What it's like to be hooked. Too much alcohol, or gaming, or love. Is salvia divinorum a key to the cosmos, or is it a dangerous substance? And how to gobble up 28 reindeer hotdogs in ten minutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homeland Security Witness TSA in action in Southeast Alaska, fight invasive plant species, snuggle up with a security blanket, and find out what folks in Tok think about a wall between Alaska and Canada Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migration Find out about Alaska's favorite migratory birds and the people who migrate to watch them. Plus, what's it like to move from Africa's biggest country to America's largest state? And, an unconscious migration from Dutch Harbor to Anchorage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fatherhood Find out what it's like to meet your father for the first time as an adult, and meet some famous and infamous Alaska fathers. Plus, how much control should parents have over their children's communications? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oceans We visit with scientists who are studying the creatures of the deep, ride an ice breaker, go surfing and find out how oysters are grown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moving AK moves to a new building, and along the way we say goodbye to our old neighbors, write a poem for the old building, listen to Jazzmom and contemplate new moves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer School's out and we remember the White Mt. School, we hear what Alaskans are planning to do with their vacation time and hear from the Sitka Symposium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grab Bag A trip to Glacier Bay, a visit to old Sunrise, ukulele lessons, the music of Jared Woods, and an update on the progress of Buckwheat Donahue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mothers A Yup'ik elder takes a woman under her wing, an East Coast Mom misses her son, prison moms, and a lost elephant seal at the Alaska Sea Life Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleanliness Recycling dog poop, the mystery of a chihuahua's passing, keeping North America's tallest mountain trash-free, and the folk ballads of Walkin' Jim Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |