Talk of Iowa

Talk of Iowa

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.

Episodes

Celebrating 30 years of culinary excellence on 'The Splendid Table'

April 23, 2025 • 47 mins
To celebrate thirty years of eating, growing, harvesting and cooking on The Splendid Table, the show is going on tour and will make a stop in Iowa City.
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A Holocaust story told through virtual reality

April 22, 2025 • 48 mins
A Walk Through Westerbork takes viewers with Rodi Glass, a Dutch Holocaust survivor, as she visits the sites of her survival.
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How to care for your lawns this spring

April 19, 2025 • 47 mins
With spring in bloom, it’s time to start caring for your grass.
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Unlike fashion and music, some building trends should stay in the last century

April 18, 2025 • 47 mins
Rock and roll from the 1970s and 80s endures, but some of the building practices in those decades was much more miss than hit.
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Twenty-five years after, mentorship turns into a performance about experiencing differences

April 17, 2025 • 48 mins
When Jan Gross and Heather Lobban-Viravong first met at Grinnell College 25 years ago, they had little in common.
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Grappling with community, faith, and truth in 'The Exvangelicals'

April 16, 2025 • 48 mins
Author Sarah McCammon and expert readers discuss The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.
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Mark Daley describes his complicated journey to fatherhood

April 15, 2025 • 47 mins
Author Mark Daley has shared his experiences fostering and what he learned along the way in the book Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care and the Risks We Take for Family.
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What does it mean to be a man?

April 12, 2025 • 47 mins
We asked Iowans what it means to be a man in 2025.
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Exploring the safety gap between women and men

April 11, 2025 • 47 mins
Women are more likely to be victims of domestic abuse or sexual assault while men are more likely to be murdered. But we don't socialize boys and girls to understand the real threats to their safety.
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How gendered understandings of medicine have influenced health care

April 10, 2025 • 48 mins
On this episode in our series on the gender gap, the history and persistent effects of gender disparities in health care.
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Minding the success gap in education

April 9, 2025 • 47 mins
Girls are more likely than boys to graduate from high school on time, more girls take advanced courses in high school and significantly more women are earning college degrees.
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The political gap between men and women

April 8, 2025 • 47 mins
For decades, men have been moving to the right and women have been moving to the left. What has influenced this divide and what issues does it pose for our relationships?
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Leafy greens to plant this season

April 5, 2025 • 47 mins
From lettuce germination to handling pests, vegetable gardening can be a challenge, but our experts are here to help.
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Celebrating science when it is under scrutiny

April 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Scientists discuss research and science backlash ahead of annual Darwin Day events. And we listen back to a conversation with one of Iowa's few scientific glassblowers.
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Getting competitive about ethics

April 3, 2025 • 48 mins
An extracurricular event growing across the United States is getting high school and collegiate students thinking talking, and working together on some of the toughest moral issues of our time.
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Ross Gay on why art and gratitude are still important in times of conflict

April 2, 2025 • 47 mins
Essayist Ross Gay explores the beauty of the world and a music therapist discusses how music and singing can help those with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.
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Comedian Maria Bamford thrives on the unfunny

April 1, 2025 • 47 mins
Comedian and actor Maria Bamford is very open about her personal struggles with mental illness, and shares more dysfunctional family stories than she probably should.
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The basics of bare root seedlings

March 29, 2025 • 47 mins
A DNR Forester shares how to successfully establish conservation plantings with bare root seedlings.
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Is online betting changing sports?

March 28, 2025 • 48 mins
Iowa's stake in March Madness is no more, but sports betting across the state runs high.
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Remembering Kanzi, the bonobo who helped us understand humanity

March 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Kanzi, a bonobo with a famously incredible understanding of language, passed away at age 44. Then, ways Iowans can contribute to scientific research.
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