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.

Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli, author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking from Jerusalem where he’s lived since 1973, tells us why he thinks Israel has been getting away with it.

Aanchal Malhotra speaks to Tidings from Delhi about her beautiful book “Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a content divided“, in which survivors of Partition talk about the one precious object they carried across the border that created India and Pakistan in 1947—and the power these remnants have to tell a story we might not otherwise hear. (Broadcast on WPKN July 9, 2025)

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders" on the nation itself. (First broadcast on WPKN July 10, 2024)

More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic practice and The Making of Them as book and as film.

Dr. Urvi Khaitan, historian and Prize Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for History and Economy, tells us how learning about Indian women and food policies and practices during India’s severe World War II food insecurity, can equip us to better survive threats to the world’s food systems from climate collapse and global human migration. (WPKN, May 14, 2025)

On one of the last days of her senior year, 18-year-old Maggie Keating talks to her grandmother about Covid memories, high school, preparing for college, voting, AI, radio, music and WPKN.

Nature-based psychotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren 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?” (Broadcast on WPKN, February 12, 2025)