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Carmen Baskauf
Producer, Where We LiveCarmen Baskauf was a producer for Connecticut Public Radio's news-talk show Where We Live, hosted by Lucy Nalpathanchil from 2017-2021. She has also contributed to The Colin McEnroe Show.
Carmen produces shows on a wide variety of topics for Where We Live; she especially loves producing shows about science and history. Some highlights include producing a full hour about menstruation (recipient of a national PRNDI award) and meeting a real-live glowing axolotl in studio for a show on bioluminescence and biofluorescence.
In 2020, Carmen and Where We Live host Lucy Nalpathanchilreceived a national Gracies Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for their conversation with a Connecticut mother and her trans son.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, the past and future of airships, both real and imagined.
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Often recognized for designing Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted was also a journalist, an abolitionist and a Connecticut native. This hour, hear from historians and landscape architects about his local legacy.
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This hour, Jill Snyder joins us to talk about her family’s story. It’s a lens into the lives of African Americans in the Northeast before the start of World War II.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at humans domesticating animals through the lens of… the fox.
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Airships in history and fiction capture our imaginations. Could they have a real-world role to play?This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we talk about airships, real and imagined.
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For much of the pandemic, the place we live and the people we live with have become our entire world. Almost one in three Americans lives in a “doubled up” household: with other adults who aren’t their partner or college-aged child. This hour on Where We Live, we talk about sharing living spaces.
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This hour, we take a look at the way our streets have changed during the pandemic. Could some of these innovations be here to stay?
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Some birds in the Eastern United States have been dying of a new disease with strange symptoms, including crusty, swollen eyes.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at humans domesticating animals through the lens of… the fox.
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This hour, we dive into the world of NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. They’re a way to own digital art that’s taken the internet—and the art world—by storm.