12 Best MTPR Podcasts

1. Threshold

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Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed.In our latest season, Hark, we hand the mic over to our planet-mates and investigate what it means to truly listen to nonhuman voices—and the cost if we don't. With mounting social and ecological crises, what happens when we tune into the life all around us?Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.MORE Producer/Network Auricle Productions
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2. Richest Hill

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If you don't know Butte Montana, you might have heard it's one of the biggest toxic messes in the country. But now the 'Mining City' is on the verge of sealing a deal that could clean it up once and for all. So how did we get here? What comes after Superfund? And who gets to decide?MORE Producer/Network Nora Saks
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3. Fireline

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By just about every measure, wildfires are getting bigger, hotter, and more devastating than we've ever seen before. But what all that fire means -- and what to do about it -- depends on who you ask.Our view of fire is complicated. There's fire as catastrophe, as something to be controlled and wiped off the landscape, feared. And there's fire as something natural and essential, beautiful...MORE Producer/Network Montana Public Radio
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 91 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2021 Get Email Contact

4. Capitol Talk

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Capitol Talk is MTPR's weekly legislative news and analysis program. MTPR's Sally Mauk is joined by Montana Free Press State Editor Holly Michels and Lee Banville, Director of the University of Montana School of Journalism and Professor of Political Reporting. Tune in during the legislative session online Friday afternoons and on-air Saturdays at 9:44 a.m. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.SubscribeMORE Producer/Network Sally Mauk
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 14 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

5. Dr. Starbuck's Health Tips for Kids

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Dr. Starbuck's Health Tips for Kids teaches children about the human body, common health issues, and simple ways to stay healthy. This program offers a fun way to educate and empower children.Using language easily understood by children, Dr. Jamison Starbuck explains how different parts of the body function. She also discusses individual health complaints and common illnesses kids might experience, and describes ways to treat everyday ailments with safe, simple, effective natural remedies.Dr...MORE Producer/Network Unknown
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6. Bug Bytes

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As described by Edward O. Wilson — perhaps the best known American biologist, researcher, naturalist and author — invertebrates are 'The Little Things That Run the World.' And indeed they do, in so many ways. In terms of numbers — while most invertebrates are pretty small, the sheer number of them is astounding. Together, they have more biomass than any other animal on earth.Learn more about the fascinating creatures that run the world, with Bug Bytes from the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium.MORE Hosts Glenn Marangelo, Jen
Producer/Network Glenn Marangelo
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Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

7. Campaign Beat

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Campaign Beat is Montana Public Radio's weekly political analysis program. It's hosted by Sally Mauk and features Lee Newspapers State News Bureau Chief Holly Michels and Rob Saldin of the University of Montana's Mansfield Center and Political Science Department.MORE Producer/Network Sally Mauk
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 15 Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

8. Words Out West

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Words Out West is a literary podcast spotlighting both established and emerging writers from Montana and the western United States, along with their poems, stories, songs, radio plays and other forms of the spoken word.MORE Producer/Network Jay Kettering
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9. The Write Question

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The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.MORE Host Lauren Korn
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10. Montana News

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Statewide news from Montana Public Radio
Hosts Eleanor Smith, Austin Amostoy
Producer/Network Montana Public Radio
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 85 Avg Length 2 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

11. Food Guys

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From favorite seasonal recipes, to the roots of our food traditions, to the politics of food, the Food Guys illuminate the culinary world each Sunday, in this 10 minute program produced by Montana Public Radio. The Food Guys have also been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.MORE Producer/Network Greg Patent, Jon Jackson
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12. The Session

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The campaign rhetoric, struggles for political power and results of the 2022 election converge in the 68th meeting of the Montana Legislature. Join us Monday mornings for The Session — a breakdown of the latest action we're watching in the statehouse, produced by Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and Montana Free Press.MORE Producer/Network Montana Public Radio, Montana Free Press, Yellowstone Public Radio
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