Rick Brewer
Talk Show ProducerRick came to Iowa Public Radio as a producer for Talk of Iowa and River to River in June 2019. He has worked at WFIU, community radio WFHB, WIUX's American Student Radio and created a couple of podcasts. His work has also been heard on PRX Remix, WAMC, and WFYI. Before his life in audio, he worked at archives and libraries. You can contact Rick at rbrewer@iowapublicradio.org.
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Iowa State University horticulture specialists Cindy Haynes and Kathleen Delate join Charity Nebbe to talk about organic gardens and answer the plant and tree questions in the lives of listeners. -
Historians Andrew Klumpp, Ashley Howard and artist Awki Nji join Charity Nebbe to discuss the latest special edition of the history journal "Annals of Iowa," which celebrates 175 years of statehood.
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Caleb Sinnwell, a ninth-grader at Nashua-Plainfield High School, and his teacher Suzan Turner join host Charity Nebbe to discuss Sinnwell's first-place win in a National History Day competition. Later, two very different Iowa singers, Jessica Faselt and Kelsey Madsen, talk about their ties to New York City and how the pandemic impacted their musical careers.
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Ben Kieffer and his guests discuss the pandemic’s impact on domestic violence, dating violence and teens in abusive relationships.
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Author Reid Forgrave joins Charity Nebbe to talk about his book "Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy." It tells the tragic story of Indianola's Zac Easter and the negative impact of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Easter's mother, Brenda, and Ali Epperson, Easter's girlfriend, also join the conversation.
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Ben Kieffer speaks with Anita Hill to reflect on the 30th anniversary of the landmark Clarence Thomas hearings and her new book, "Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence." Later, Kieffer discusses the disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates between rural and urban communities and finishes the show learning about new technology in some Iowa grocery stores.
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Charity Nebbe speaks with three historians about Iowa's complicated border history, Mildred Pelzer's 1934 map of Iowa celebrating statehood and the nation's first female lawyer, Belle Babb Mansfield, a southeast Iowa native and graduate of Iowa Wesleyan University.
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Lisa Schulte Moore is a professor at Iowa State University and, as of last month, a MacArthur genius. She talked about her work and the honor on River to River.
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Host Ben Kieffer speaks with a variety of guests about top news stories from around the state this week.
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Ben Kieffer speaks with Karen Kedrowski and Jim McCormick of Iowa State University about the bills moving through congress. Kedrowski and McCormick also discuss the congressional testimonies on the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, the debt ceiling debate and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley running for an 8th term.
