" PBS | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:15:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 " PBS | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Pete Walsh, platypus partisan https://talkinganimals.net/2023/10/pete-walsh-platypus-partisan/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/10/pete-walsh-platypus-partisan/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:00:29 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10388 https://talkinganimals.net/2023/10/pete-walsh-platypus-partisan/feed/ 0 10388 Jacky Poon, producer-cinematographer of “Pandas: Born to be Wild” https://talkinganimals.net/2020/10/jacky-poon-producer-cinematographer-of-pandas-born-to-be-wild/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/10/jacky-poon-producer-cinematographer-of-pandas-born-to-be-wild/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:00:04 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8416 Jacky Poon—filmmaker-producer-cinematographer of “Pandas: Born to be Wild,” a new documentary in PBS’ “Nature”—recounts that he did not have a particular passion for animals or wildlife while growing up in China, but those interests were spurred after he moved to the UK at 12 years old. Subsequently, Poon says, he additionally gravitated toward cameras, enrolling […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2020/10/jacky-poon-producer-cinematographer-of-pandas-born-to-be-wild/feed/ 0 8416 Susan Fleming, director of “Remarkable Rabbits” https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/susan-fleming-director-of-remarkable-rabbits/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/susan-fleming-director-of-remarkable-rabbits/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2020 04:00:50 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8089 Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, this was the second show I broadcast remotely from home, with in-studio help from my friend/WMNF music director Lee “Flee” Courtney, featuring live and recorded elements… Susan Fleming—a filmmaker who’s been making movies for 30 years, and specializing in nature films for 20; […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/susan-fleming-director-of-remarkable-rabbits/feed/ 0 8089 Mark Emery, a cinematographer–and the narrator–on “Wild Florida” https://talkinganimals.net/2020/02/mark-emery-a-cinematographer-and-the-narrator-on-wild-florida/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/02/mark-emery-a-cinematographer-and-the-narrator-on-wild-florida/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:00:38 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7994 Mark Emery—one of the cinematographers, and the narrator, on the new documentary “Wild Florida,” part of the PBS series, “Nature”—addresses the early part of his career as a wildlife filmmaker, and how he may have been singularly equipped for it, growing up in Ocala, Florida. Elaborating, he says his childhood cultivated an early love for […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2020/02/mark-emery-a-cinematographer-and-the-narrator-on-wild-florida/feed/ 0 7994 Mindy Smith, Singer-Songwriter https://talkinganimals.net/2014/10/mindy-smith-singer-songwriter/ https://talkinganimals.net/2014/10/mindy-smith-singer-songwriter/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:00:18 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4268 Well, as these show summaries go, this is certainly an unusual one. Quite fitting, really, given how unusual this show was, to say nothing of the morning this show aired. WMNF is in Tampa and as many listeners know, I live on the opposite coast of Florida. Which means a three-plus hour drive, each way, […]

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