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Episode 20 – Peter and Sheila Jowers

SnapSessions! presents Episode 20, featuring an interview with organic farmers and land pioneers, Peter & Sheila Jowers, as well as articles “Corona and the Black Plague” and  “A Tribute to John Prine”. Peter & Sheila Jowers talk about the building of the Adsett Court land partnership in the West Country of England from the mid…
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COVID-19 Special Episode

SnapSessions presents a special Covid-19 episode, highlighting scary plague, disease, and related Zombie movies to watch during this period of “sheltering in place”. We know you, like the SnapSessions’ Bros., are looking for things to read, watch, and listen to. We hope to add our collection of scary movies to your list of things to watch…
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Episode 19 – Ralph Humphrey

SnapSessions! presents Episode 19, featuring an interview with maestro drummer/music teacher Ralph Humphrey as well as articles “Sometimes a Protester” and “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”.  Humphrey talks about his long and storied musical career, starting as a clarinetist in a Dixieland Band called “The Derbies”, when he was still in high school and then his…
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Episode 18 – Fog Eater Cafe

SnapSessions! presents Episode 18, featuring an interview with the founders of Mendocino’s popular new vegetarian restaurant, The Fog Eater Café–Haley Samas Berry, Erica Schneider and Nathan Maxwell Cann, as well as a feature on mythical Baby Standup comic–”Schecky Infante”, and an article on “Drawdown” technologies to eliminate carbon and fossil fuels from our future. We…
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Episode 17 – Mark Thomas

SnapSessions! presents Episode 17, a special installment devoted entirely to an interview and selected comedy riffs from British comic and political activist, Mark Thomas. Thomas has been active as a comedian, satirist, and muck-raking journalist since the mid-1980s in the UK and beyond. Thomas talks about his working-class upbringing with his builder Dad and nurse/midwife…
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Episode 16 – The Nutclucker

SnapSessions! presents Episode 16 featuring a holiday reboot of “Tchickclucksky’s The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a 1995 production of Rothman’s HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions.  The Nutclucker was the inspiration of Harry “Henny Bockman” Rothman (aka “Poultriotti”), a longtime player and director of Mendocino’s Hit & Run Theater. Harry was an…
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Episode 15 – Jessica Morsell-Haye

SnapSessions! presents Episode 15, featuring an interview with textile & pattern designer/Fort Bragg City Councilwoman, Jessica Morsell-Haye, as well as the premiere of our audio play–”7 Days in the Mesozoic”, a dramatic representation of the last week of the Dinosaur imperium. Morsell-Haye talks about her outdoorsy and spirited early years as a Mendocino kid, her…
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Episode 14 – Carol Bensimon

SnapSessions! presents Episode 14, featuring an interview with Brazilian novelist and short story writer, Carol Bensimon, as well as articles “Guns in the USA” and “Boyan Slat, Eco Warrior”. Bensimon talks about her childhood growing up in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, her time as a student in advertising and business, before her studies at…
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Episode 13 – James Maxwell

SnapSessions! presents Episode 13, featuring an interview with multi-talented visual artist, James Maxwell, as well as a travelogue story—In the Shadow of the Mountain, chronicling a long drive from Cologne, Germany to Teheran, Iran in August 1974.  Maxwell talks about growing up as a young artist near Riverside, his time in the Air Force in…
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Episode 12 – Isolde Fischer

SnapSessions! presents Episode 12 featuring an interview with German actress/improviser Isolde Fischer, as well as an ode to 1960s’ country music star, Roger Miller and an article on French Enlightenment writer, Denis Diderot. Fischer talks about growing up as a Swabian farm girl in the countryside near Stuttgart, her studies at Heidelberg University, moving on…
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