Latest Timeout Radio takes us to Unitrans, and then to India

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 1:48pm | kdrtradio

The Unitrans vintage red London double-decker bus is a familiar sight in Davis. Riding on the top deck as a little kid was a big thrill! On the latest Timeout Radio with Rohan Baxi, learn how public transit started in 1826 as an omnibus that shuttled people to a public bath. Also on today's show, Unitrans General Manager Jeff Flynn tells us that the student-run service logs over 1 million miles a year and carries over 22,000 passengers each day.

Then travel to India — home to 92,000 animal species, the wettest inhabited place on Earth, a Guinness world record-holding bus fleet, a 42,000-mile rail network, and cricket matches that draw 100 million viewers each.

Davisville, Oct. 2, 2023: Meat is changing, and UC Davis is helping it to happen

Mon, 10/02/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

At a very simple level, we’re talking today about hamburgers, although the subject goes much deeper than that. Today’s show concerns food, taste, the environment, commerce, questions of how to feed the world — and it’s directly a Davis story, because the University of California at Davis is a national leader in this area of research, and their work is attracting food tech startups to the region. The subject is cultivated meat, or meat substitutes that barely exist beyond the lab for now, but should come eventually to a store or menu near you.

Our guests today are Denneal Jamison-McClung and Kara E. Leong. Kara is the executive director of the UC Davis Cultivated Meat Consortium; Denneal is the director of the UC Davis Biotechnology Program, and co-founded the consortium. They can help us understand what’s happening and why it matters.

Album of the Week, Sep. 27, 2023: Rising Sun Melodies by Ola Belle Reed

Thu, 09/28/2023 - 9:00am | kdrtradio

Today's Album of the Week compiles performances recorded in the 1970s by Ola Belle Reed. It's called Rising Sun Melodies.

From Smithsonian Folkways: "Ola Belle Reed was a trailblazing force for women in bluegrass music, an Appalachian woman of hard-earned talent and generous ways who delivered honest music sung from the heart. Her songs 'I've Endured,' 'High on the Mountain,' 'My Epitaph,' and many others forge real-life experiences into music steeled with determination, family tradition, and commanding presence.

"[These] classic tracks ... remind us why the light of Ola Belle's music shines brightly to this day."

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