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Talking Animals
with Duncan Strauss
Hosted by Duncan Strauss, “Talking Animals” airs every Wednesday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, on WMNF (88.5 FM), a 70,000-watt, community-oriented NPR affiliate in Tampa, Florida.
Recent Shows
Lenore Braford and Paul Drake, co-founders of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge
By Duncan | 4 min read
Lenore Braford and Paul Drake--co-founders of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, a highly-innovative animal sanctuary in North Carolina; owing to Drake...
Jo-Anne McArthur, photojournalist with new book, “Captive”
Jo-Anne McArthur—the acclaimed photojournalist who specializes in documenting animals and their stories---explains how her work, compared with...
Duncan | Aug 23, 2017 | 3 min read
Jason Meltzer, co-founder & Chief Dog Officer of Wag
Jason Meltzer—co-founder and Chief Dog Officer of Wag, the on-demand dog walking app—describes being a dog guy since childhood, growing with dogs...
Duncan | Aug 16, 2017 | 2 min read
Yuan Wang, co-founder of American Marine Research Company
Yuan Wang—co-founder of American Marine Research Company, essentially a quartet of young engineers (recent graduates from M.I.T., Cornell, and...
Duncan | Aug 9, 2017 | 2 min read
Shawn Flynn, author of “THE KITTY Who Rescued Me After I Rescued Him”
Shawn Flynn—author of “THE KITTY Who Rescued Me After I Rescued Him”—recalls growing up in a household that had dogs, but not cats, and how he...
Duncan | Aug 2, 2017 | 2 min read
Fern Levitt, director of “Sled Dogs”
Fern Levitt—the director of “Sled Dogs,” a documentary that provides a behind-the-scenes examination of both the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and...
Duncan | Jul 26, 2017 | 2 min read
Ronnie Lee, veteran animal rights activist & founder of the Animal Liberation Front
Ronnie Lee—the veteran British animal rights activist, who in 1976, founded the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)—muses about how to reconcile a lad...
Duncan | Jul 19, 2017 | 2 min read
Denice Heatherly, co-founder of Music City Animal Advocates
Denice Heatherly—co-founder of Music City Animal Advocates, a non-profit organization whose stated goal is “to create an animal-saving culture in...
Duncan | Jul 12, 2017 | 2 min read
Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals
Priscilla Feral—the president of Friends of Animals, an international animal advocacy organization founded in 1957—discusses FoA’s late founder,...
Duncan | Jul 5, 2017 | 2 min read
Jessica Rubin, professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law
Jessica Rubin—a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law who’s at the forefront of a new law in that state, allowing judges to...
Duncan | Jun 28, 2017 | 2 min read









