Tidings with Hazel Kahan

Hazel Kahan, WPKN
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With her monthly Tidings Hazel Kahan brings us interviews with people all over the United States and the world about their groundbreaking ideas, brave new projects and insightful reflections.

  1. Thomas Little--artist, ink maker, alchemist: on making ink from guns dissolved in acid

    May 30

    Thomas Little--artist, ink maker, alchemist: on making ink from guns dissolved in acid

    Thomas Little, North Carolina-based artist, writer, ink historian, ink and pigment maker, and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks, uses the lens of alchemy and magic to examine his own work of making ink from weapons dissolved in acid. (WPKN June 1, 2026)

    30 min
  2. Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar, on Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India

    May 2

    Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar, on Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India

    Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices so familiar to us in America today.  (WPKN May 4, 2026)

    30 min
  3. Nature psychotherapist Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

    Apr 2

    Nature psychotherapist Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

    Jeanne Malmgren, Nature-based psychotherapist and author whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?”

    30 min
  4. Tara Lohan: Author, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life"

    Mar 1

    Tara Lohan: Author, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life"

    Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN March 2, 2026)

    30 min
  5. Brewster Kahle: The Internet in Transition

    Jan 28

    Brewster Kahle: The Internet in Transition

    Brewster Kahle is founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia (Noam Cohen talked about Wikipedia in the December 2021 episode of Tidings). First broadcast on WPKN February 9, 2022.

    30 min
  6. Robert Massoud: Why Palestine continues as a worldwide issue without resolution

    Jan 4

    Robert Massoud: Why Palestine continues as a worldwide issue without resolution

    Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains why  Palestine continues to be an issue and conflict for the world. (WPKN, January 5, 2026)

    29 min
  7. Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires

    12/01/2025

    Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires

    Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his brand new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet, and some of the ways we can reduce this impact on the landscapes of our lives.

    30 min
  8. John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation

    09/07/2025

    John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation

    This month, Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is John Christian Phifer, executive Director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 20 years in the funeral industry, he transformed the focus of his work to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial.  Wednesday, September 10 at 6:30 am and 8 pm.

    29 min
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With her monthly Tidings Hazel Kahan brings us interviews with people all over the United States and the world about their groundbreaking ideas, brave new projects and insightful reflections.

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  • Creator
    Hazel Kahan, WPKN
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Hazel Kahan, WPKN