High Plains Passport Airs Fridays at 10:30 a.m. during High Plains Morning and Sundays at 9:01 a.m. during Weekend Edition High Plains Passport is your ticket to experience the world. In the coming months, High Plains Passport host, Valarie Smith begins a travel adventure through Central America and Asia. Every week, Valarie sends home an audio postcard, highlighting historical frameworks, serendipitous encounters, and interactions with grassroots endeavors for the greater good. This Week: We are bouncing back from a tinge of homesickness, by making a new friend. His name is Yader Palacios, a Granada Nicaragua Native, who shares with us the importance of learning English.

There's still time for your input through HPPR's listener survey Open through January 31st We’ve been receiving some great feedback and insights from those of you who have already completed HPPR’s on-line listener satisfaction survey. And we’d like to have more. It takes only a couple of minutes to complete. Just click on the button to start. Your participation is greatly appreciated and will be very helpful in planning and making improvements in our service to you.

Public Radio Tuner™ — iPhone™ App Listen to High Plains Public Radio on your iPhone and iPod Touch with the Public Radio Tuner iPhone application. HPPR and many other public radio stations are all available to stream on your iPhone or iPod Touch when you install the free Public Radio Tuner application from the iTunes App Store. Click here to get the details.

Latest stories from Harvest Public Media During Morning Edition and All Things Considered Today's emerging agenda for agriculture is headlined by energy and climate change, food safety, bio fuels, animal production and welfare, human health, water quality, and local food systems. By examining these local, regional and national issues and their implications, Harvest Public Media creates a rich multimedia resource devoted to food, fuel and field. Check the latest stories to the right and click to read and listen on-line. Tune in to Morning Edition and All Things Considered to hear broadcasts of the stories. Harvest Public Media is a partnership between: High Plains Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, KCUR, Iowa Public Radio, Nebraska Educational TV/Radio and KBIA

High Plains History Airs Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. and Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. Take a few minutes to step back in time and explore the historical events, places, persons, social movements, and humorous incidents from the centuries of human settlement on the High Plains with High Plains History. This week: Ding Dong Daddy. Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air! You'll hear the song that became the Dumas, Texas trademark in the early days of Western Swing. Due to a technical difficulty, Ding Dong Daddy will air on Friday morning at 10:35 Central time.