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A Big Sur Podcast
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A Big Sur Podcast

Magnus Toren, host

An ongoing conversation with people from near and far about Big Sur's past, present, and future. A Big Sur Podcast interprets 'community' to mean ALL people from around the world who are curious about, and who care about, the preservation and restoration of the wild and rural character of Big Sur. Stories are told by visitors and residents, plumbers and linesmen, musicians and authors, dancers and jugglers and others. Sometimes we drift (way) off-topic into the arts, sciences, personal stories, gossip, politics, philosophy, ornithology, Henry Miller, and our zeitgeist in general. We like that! If you are planning a visit to Big Sur and you listen to some of the folks on this Podcast talk about their love of the place your visit will probably be a lot more rewarding. Please email magnus@henrymiller.org with any comments, critique & suggestions. Music clips courtesy John Holm: https://www.discogs.com/artist/374084-John-Holm | Sound editing software by Hindenburg | Special thanks to Jim Agius for special support.Please support the podcast by making a donation to the Henry Miller Library, a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization. Thank you!
Episodes
# 81 Big Sur's ongoing efforts to protect the landscape : A Conversation with David SmileyDecember 03, 2023
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# 80 Is Big Sur being overused? A conversation with Marcus Foster of Keep Big Sur Wild.November 30, 2023
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# 79 Quiet Days in Clichy - Jours Tranquilles a Clichy - A beautiful new French edition. With Charles Ficat and Michael Paduano in Paris.November 20, 2023
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# 78 The Burden of Joy. A conversation with author Lexi Kent-Monning. "We were stranded on opposite sides of the crashed Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge!"November 17, 2023
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# 77 Paul Kephart: Ecologist and naturalist with a deep history, love and knowledge of the Big Sur coast.November 08, 2023
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# 76 My friend Dan Weiss reports from the war in Israel. Please listen.October 29, 2023
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# 75 Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night w/ José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca and Charles HoodOctober 04, 2023
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# 74 California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. Magnus is talking with author Rosanna Xia.September 16, 2023
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# 73 State Senator John Laird: Once you left Carmel Highlands and went south you were in the Wild West! September 14, 2023
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# 72 Feathered Canyons: Big Sur circa 1964! Author Jeanette Hanby at Nepenthe with Bill Hargis, Eric Barker, Gold mining, watching lions! A typical Big Sur story!September 05, 2023
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# 71 A conversation at a small café in rural North CarolinaAugust 31, 2023
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# 70 Big Sur Women with Rachel Anne GoodmanAugust 17, 2023
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# 69 The Manhattan Project, Porter, Jackson, Miller & OppenheimerAugust 07, 2023
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# 68 Kate Daniels, candidate for the 5th district Supervisor seat. The future of Big Sur is in the balance😊!July 11, 2023
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# 67 The Darkness Manifesto by Johan EklöfJuly 03, 2023
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# 65 A conversation with Weston Call's Mother on the occasion of his Birthday and the five year anniversary of his passing..June 13, 2023
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# 64 From Easter Island to Big Sur: Please welcome Sonia Haoa Cardinali!June 04, 2023
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# 63 The Questions That Matter Most with Jane Smiley. Also featuring Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Shakespeare and Alice Munro!May 29, 2023
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# 62 Pico Iyer | The Half Known Life | New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, Jerusalem, Greece, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Merton, Dalai Lama, Cyprian, Japan, Tahiti...May 10, 2023
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# 61 A new book by Henry Miller! The Book of Conversations with David Edgar. May 04, 2023
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# 60 Big Sur Ronna Rio Riding Water Buffaloes, Giraffes & Teaching Art!April 22, 2023
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# 59 Israeli journalist and writer Yossi Klein Halevi.April 17, 2023
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# 58 Darryl Purpose: Writing Songs, Playing Blackjack, Telling Stories and the Great March! April 11, 2023
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# 57 Joshua Yaffa of the New Yorker magazine speaks with Magnus about journalism in wartime Ukraine and Russia.March 24, 2023
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# 56 Stranded, Finding Nature In Uncertain Times by Maddalena BearziMarch 15, 2023
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