Charity Nebbe
Host: Talk of IowaCharity Nebbe became the host of Talk of Iowa in 2010. It was a homecoming for her as she moved back to her native state. She began her career in public radio at WOI Radio in Ames, Iowa when she was a student at Iowa State University and has been working in public radio ever since. Early in her career she created Chinwag Theater a nationally syndicated public radio show that she produced and co-hosted with well-known author Daniel Pinkwater. She spent ten years as a host and producer at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor.
In addition to her award winning radio work Charity is also the host of Iowa Ingredient on Iowa Public Television and the author of the children's book “Our Walk in the Woods,” published in 2008. Charity is co-founder of Let Me Run Eastern Iowa Corridor, a character development and running program for boys.
Contact Charity at cnebbe@iowapublicradio.org.
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Host Charity Nebbe speaks with expert readers and author Diane Wilson about her novel The Seed Keeper for the Talk of Iowa book club.
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Iowa City band, The Swampland Jewels, combines a mix of Gulf Coast oldies, traditional Cajun/Creole and TexMex tunes to encapsulate the work of folklorist Harry Oster.
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Spring blooming trees only put on a show for a couple of weeks each year in the state of Iowa, but the show can be spectacular.
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The king of crab apples shares some of his favorite spring blooming trees and talk about why magnolias seem to be having an off year
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This episode is all about poetry.
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Residential areas marked red — starting in the 1930s — were deemed places of high-risk investment. The impacts of this practice, called redlining, persist today and even extend to the tree canopy.
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Journalists aren't superheroes - but without good, ethical journalists doing their best, we would be lost.
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Leaving plant debris in your perennial garden all winter long provides texture and habitat, but now it’s time to do some spring cleaning as the weather warms.
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Leaving plant debris in your perennial garden all winter long provides texture and habitat, but now it’s time to do some spring cleaning as the weather warms.
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University of Iowa professor Benjamin Hunnicut — who has been studying how we work, live and recreate for 50 years — will retire this year.