The Radio Café on Santafenewmexican.com

Dr. Bruce Perry is author of the extraordinary book “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing,” and he’s been instrumental in changing the way mental health practitioners understand and treat the most wounded and vulnerable children in our society. 

Tim McLaughlin’s new book “Seeds Under the Tongue” is a compilation of poems, some of them inspired by a brush with death in a canyon that the author transformed into a ceremonial experience. McLaughlin’s work combines well-honed craft, inspiration and a profound connection to wild nature.

Central Americans faced with violence, murder, extortion, gangs and a breakdown of the rule of law are coming to the US to seek asylum—only to find chaos and squalor and on this side of the border. We talk to Allegra Love, Santa Fe attorney and executive director of the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, about the realities facing refugees and the politics surrounding them. 

The Roswell UFO Festival is a fascinating amalgam of people who believe in flying saucers, conspiracy theorists, those who believe that they’ve been abducted—and their therapists. We talk to four of them about their idiosyncratic beliefs and stories that defy credibility.

Steve Young, comedy writer for Late Show with David Letterman, stumbled across the genre of “industrial musicals” that were huge but virtually unknown to the general public—until now. We talk about his book “Everything’s Coming Up Profits” and the documentary “Bathtubs Over Broadway.” 

We talk to historian John Stauffer about his book "The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On."

In 1973, a Mexican anthropologist assembled a group of people from different countries, religions and cultures to cross the Atlantic on a raft with minimal comforts, no motor and a single sail. He was hoping to observe conflict and even violence, but it didn’t turn out the way he’d anticipated. We talk to filmmaker Marcus Lindeen about his documentary about the original journey—and the reunion 43 years later. 

"Before Stonewall" is an award-winning and groundbreaking documentary from 1984 about LGBT America before 1969. We talk to co-director Robert Rosenberg about the making of the film, which includes elders who came of age in the 1920s, and the making of a civil rights movement.

We talk to Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison about the operas in this summer’s season—history, production, casting and the beauty and drama of both classics and a world premiere.

Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico talks about children with severe disabilities in New Mexico public schools that not only don’t provide the services they need but actually call the police on them, and sometimes make false claims against their parents to CYFD.

David K. Randall’s new book "Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague” is the vividly told story of the advent of modern medicine, and the science and politics of the fight against a brutally lethal bacterium.

At the age of 23, Erica Elliott went to teach school on the Navajo reservation. After a rocky beginning, she fell in love with the people and their culture—and witnessed miracles that even now as a medical doctor she cannot fully understand.

Tomás Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective talks about what it will take to ensure fairness and equity for the most vulnerable people and neighborhoods in Santa Fe—especially as the former College of Santa Fe campus is developed.

For centuries, pueblos have fought to assert and maintain their rights to land, water and self-determination. In the new book “Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas,” historians Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks explore the long history—and many successes—of this struggle.

Doug Lynam found his calling as a money manager while serving as a monk and taking care of the monastery’s finances. He brings spiritual, environmental and practical perspectives to his work. We talk about his new book “From Monk to Money Manager: A Monk’s Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That’s Okay.”