The Radio Café on Santafenewmexican.com

Mary Beth Pfeiffer is an investigative journalist, whose latest book is, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change. We discuss the horrors of Lyme disease and other tick-borne pathogens, and the politics that have stood in the way of resources, research, and treatment.

Pedram Shojai is a doctor of oriental medicine, author, and filmmaker, whose forthcoming film series, Interconnected, looks at the advances in understanding of the many roles of the bacteria and other microorganisms who make our bodies their home. 

Dr. Hisham Moharram founded The Good Tree Farm as an expression of his Muslim faith. He explains how to keep a farm profitable, regenerate the land and feed communities that don’t have good access to healthy food.

The Mobile Integrated Health program of the City of Santa Fe Fire Department proposes we should reform our municipal first-responder and health care systems from the ground up. Andres Mercado and Erik Hickey, from the program, take a look at the complex questions of what is appropriate care in this time, and how can we be more adaptive to our current realities. The newest member of their team is a dog named Montauk, whose job is to aid the most challenged people in the system. 

William Powers, author of the new book Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, discusses what it's like to live according to ideals, rather than traditional Western lifestyles. Powers and his family — who have lived in a New York City micro-apartment, as well as an off-grid tiny home in North Carolina — just returned from living in a small Bolivian town.  

City historian Andrew Lovato, author of Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town, talks about the roots of the annual Fiesta celebration in Santa Fe, from its early days as a religious celebration to its expansion into a multicultural and many-faceted event.

Mary-Charlotte speaks with Eric Witt, who was a pivotal figure in the development of New Mexico's film incentive program.

Sara Solovich, executive editor of Searchlight New Mexico, talks about the 2020 census and what it means for New Mexico—the most difficult of the 50 states to get an accurate headcount of residents. 

We speak to Sanjay Rawal, director and producer of the documentary 3100: Run and Become, which follows a 3100-mile race, in which participants run 60 or more miles a day for 52 days. And we talk to Dustin Quinn Martin, executive director of Wings of America, a non-profit organization that encourages Native Americans to run, as a way of both connecting to ancestors and the land, and to greater achievement in the world. 

Dr. Amelia Bachleda is a doctor of neuroscience at The Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington. But rather than doing direct academic research, she takes the latest research out into the world, where educators, parents, and policy-makers can encounter the work in an easily understandable form, and then make use of it for the betterment of children. 

Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the recent Mexican presidential election by a landslide. What gave rise to his victory, and what does it mean for Mexico’s future? We speak to a pair of brilliant law professors and activists, Alejandro Madrazo Lajous and Catalina Perez, who recently spoke in Santa Fe about the history of Mexico and the current problems of organized crime, corruption, and violence — and some possible solutions.  

Ana Pacheco speaks on a new book on pueblos of New Mexico. And in a second segment, Mary-Charlotte speaks about some young writers who are starting a literary space called The Living Room. 

Josh Haberman is artistic director of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, an internationally renowned chorus based in northern New Mexico. We discuss everything from show tunes, to Andean instruments, to music that evokes the natural world—and we listen to music recorded in the church where it’s being performed.

In 1937, Patricia Douglas was brutally raped at an MGM party. The film studio was all-powerful, and though she brought a federal lawsuit against them, her case was strong-armed out of existence, and was forgotten until six decades later, when filmmaker David Stenn happened upon a newspaper article about Douglas and began to pursue the story. He found her, and made a film about courage in the face of male power. 

Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist, feminist, human rights activist, and author of several books. She uncovered a pedophilia and child pornography ring, resulting in a 113-year prison sentence for its powerful leader. She was brutally beaten, raped, and left for dead in retaliation. But her spirit was not broken.