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Are you ready to go back to the land? Browse the lineups for each of the six one-hour episodes of Stories from the Heart of the Land. Or hear some featured segments by clicking on the producers' names below!
Portraits in Landscapes
In this hour, the 
Kitchen Sisters explore a canyon, Jonathan Goldstein goes camping, and Elizabeth Arnold enters bear territory — places devoid of people. But when they point their microphones at the landscape, they find stories that seem a lot like…portraits.
The Nature of the Imagination
Why can we all clearly imagine distant locales — even those of us who never leave the backyard? Listen as we try to answer by watching nature documentaries with David Attenborough, traveling to the North Pole and visiting a Himalayan mountain whose summit is home to the gods (and, naturally, off-limits to humans).
Journeys Home and Away
Isn't "finding yourself" what kids do with backpacks in Europe? Not always. In this hour, go with a few brave radio producers into nature on a mission of discovery — searching for old-growth trees, a trail built long ago, the Australian outback and what you can see with your first pair of glasses.
Nature is Homeground
On some corner of the vast Earth, each one of us has a place — real or remembered — to call home. Hear Teresa Goff follow a trail of grease, Jeff Rice brave three-digit temperatures in the Sonoran Desert and Sandy Tolan tread lightly at the monastic home of author Barry Lopez.
Dreams of Paradise
Listen to stories of people living out dreams of paradise... sometimes waking up to a nightmare. Sam Hurst and Dean Olsher discover the pain of loving land that gives you nothing but trouble. Natalie Edwards faces a personal chamber of horrors at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. And a few sleepless Hawaiians plot the extinction of a noisy nocturnal nuisance...the coqui frog.
Depending on Nature
We’re all dependent on the land, although some people feel that connection more keenly than others. In this hour, we hear from people planting stones for posterity and gathering peace from emptiness, people who commit to a patch of land, invest their energy and hope for a harvest — but not necessarily in any way you’d expect.
Nature picture credits: Courtesy of Teresa Goff (The Grease Trails, British Columbia)
