246 Episodes

  1. Dialogue of the Dogs

    Published: 7/13/2024

  2. A Midsummer Night's Desert

    Published: 6/22/2024

  3. Slumgullion Stew

    Published: 6/8/2024

  4. Call of the Blue Crow

    Published: 5/17/2024

  5. Funeral for a Raven

    Published: 5/3/2024

  6. Materia Medica: On expedition with botanist-surgeon John Milton Bigelow

    Published: 4/26/2024

  7. Standing With the Giants at Mariposa Grove

    Published: 4/12/2024

  8. The Old, Weird America: Full of Ghosts & Monsters

    Published: 3/29/2024

  9. Spooky Tales for the St. Patrick's Storm

    Published: 3/15/2024

  10. The Voice of the Desert

    Published: 3/8/2024

  11. Make It Sacred

    Published: 2/23/2024

  12. Among the Stately Trees

    Published: 2/17/2024

  13. The Typing Life: Warren Zevon, 9/11 & the California Bloggers (With Matt Welch)

    Published: 2/15/2024

  14. The Ballad of Mojo Nixon

    Published: 2/11/2024

  15. Horror on the California Backroads

    Published: 1/19/2024

  16. The Hermit's Life

    Published: 12/29/2023

  17. Gadzooks! It's Solsticetime in the Desert

    Published: 12/22/2023

  18. Live From Earth

    Published: 12/8/2023

  19. Trivia Night in the High Desert

    Published: 11/25/2023

  20. Songs of the Doomed

    Published: 11/18/2023

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Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).