Documentary Special
Sundays 4 - 5 p.m.
Join Montana Public Radio every Sunday at 4 p.m. for an hour of eclectic, investigative, and narrative radio storytelling. Sunday documentary specials have included StoryCorps features, Glacier National Park’s ‘Headwaters’ podcast, MTPR’s nationally-renowned ‘Richest Hill’ podcast, and others.
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What do Jaws, a three-year bike tour from Alaska to Argentina in the seventies and Missoula’s Adventure Cycling have in common? They’re all celebrating 50-year anniversaries, and they’re all connected to Montana.June and Greg Siple were the first cyclists to bike from Alaska to Argentina during the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition. The cascade from that three year tour changed biking in America. Listen for conversations with the Siples, Dan and Lys Burden – the Siples’ companions on the Hemistour – and Jessica Zephyrs, vice president of marketing and communication with Adventure Cycling. -
Program Director Michael Marsolek sits down with Greg and June Siple to talk about their bicycle tour from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, which took place from 1972 to 1975 and totaled 18,272 miles. A long-form documentary will air on Montana Public Radio later this year. -
The second special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022, excerpted from conversations engaged with a large swath of the human experience. -
In light of a cancer diagnosis in 2020, the late Dr. Sheila Stearns and William Marcus sit down to chat about Stearns’s family and about her careers as a school teacher and the Commissioner of Higher Education in Montana. -
At the dawn of NPR, in 1971, it was nearly impossible for a woman to get a job in journalism. In television and radio, a woman might be able to get a job… -
In the spring of 2020, Anne Bailey and students at the Montana Media Lab at the University of Montana School of Journalism invited middle and high school… -
"When you’re tied to gratitude on the one hand and dependence on the other, it gives your ego less space to operate inside of your heart, mind and soul.…
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For years, Stephen Jenkinson led the palliative care department at a major Canadian hospital. Sitting at the deathbeds of over a thousand people, he… -
David Brooks has worn several journalistic hats over his career: reporter, editor, political and cultural commentator, and in recent years, best-selling… -
According to the 2010 U.S. census, Montana is among the whitest states in the country. That means 90 percent or more of the population is Caucasian. But…
