Journeys Of Discovery With Tom Wilmer

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Tom Wilmers Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast, recorded live on-location across America and around the world- showcases the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts. We cover nouns and verbspeople, places, things, and actioneverything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic. His feature, recorded live at Harland & Wolfe Shipyards in Belfast Northern Ireland, celebrating the centenary of the launch of the Titanic was the recipient of a Best Travel award from Outdoor Writers Association of California.

Episodios

  • Mahatma Gandhi's century-old philosophy—now more timely than ever

    10/12/2025 Duración: 51min

    In Gandhi's footsteps, literally and figuratively, author Perry Garfinkel discovers finding Truth and Peace is not an easy path to follow in 21st century society...but well worth the journey.

  • How life in Hawaii dramatically transformed after the Pearl Harbor attack

    09/12/2025 Duración: 41min

    Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 Marshall Law was declared in Honolulu, but very few residents of Japanese descent were ever interned.

  • A visit aboard the legendary USS Missouri berthed at Pearl Harbor

    04/12/2025 Duración: 14min

    Join correspondent Tom Wilmer on Oahu at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii aboard the “Mighty Mo”.

  • When bicycles ruled in Shanghai 35-year ago & a sacred Buddhist temple

    25/11/2025 Duración: 17min

    Join correspondent Tom Wilmer as he revisits a moment in time 35 years ago in Shanghai and a journey to one of China’s most sacred Buddhist temples in the hills above the Yangtze-river port of Ningbo.

  • In Remembrance—JFK’s assassination 62 years ago

    22/11/2025 Duración: 16min

    An “evergreen” show recorded at the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas, Texas, correspondent Tom Wilmer interviewed a reporter who covered the JFK assassination while working at a Dallas newspaper on that fateful day, November 22nd 1963.

  • Retired Naval officer—still serving as National Security consultant

    14/11/2025 Duración: 18min

    join correspondent Tom Wilmer for an insightful conversation with John E. Krause Lt. Commander USN (Ret.) who now serves as National Security Consultant in Washington D.C.

  • Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum celebration

    10/11/2025 Duración: 14min

    Bart Topham Director at the Central Coast Veterans Museum shares stories about the events scheduled for Veterans Day and an overview of the offerings at the museum.

  • Rising from the ashes-Lahaina Rising documentary records deadly 2023 firestorm

    04/11/2025 Duración: 52min

    Lahaina Rising producers & videographers share tales of the community’s poignant response to the deadly August, 2023 firestorm that devastated the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui and the community-based organization Lahaina Strong

  • HMS Queen Mary—world’s most haunted cruise liner

    31/10/2025 Duración: 22min

    Join correspondent Tom Wilmer for spine chilling tales of the ghosts who haunt the Queen Mary.

  • Unveiling the hidden story of John Muir

    20/10/2025 Duración: 37min

    Author Robert Aquinas McNalley shares tales of John Muir and his racist attitudes in his new book, Cast out of Eden

  • Sunset Magazine proclaims Pismo one of California’s premier beaches

    03/10/2025 Duración: 21min

    Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Emma Rhoads for an exploration of cool things to do and see in and around Pismo Beach, California.

  • Historic Paso Robles Inn partners with SLO Safe Rides to Vina Robles Amphitheater

    30/09/2025 Duración: 14min

    Erica Fryburger, GM at Paso Robles Inn shares insights about the partnership with SLO Safe Ride, offering their guests shuttles to and from Vina Robles Amphitheater, and the Inn’s fascinating history.

  • Little Rock Nine’s civil-rights legacy lives on 68 years later

    26/09/2025 Duración: 33min

    The little sister of one of the Little Rock Nine recalls the terror her family lived through, followed by Robin White, superintendent at the National Historic Site at the time of the 2017 interview.

  • The Wood Brothers—resonating with the heart and soul of American roots music

    26/08/2025 Duración: 15min

    Join the Wood Brothers in Bristol, Tennessee as they share their lifelong passion for making and sharing music.

  • Muddy Pond Tennessee—a thriving, welcoming, rural Mennonite community

    19/08/2025 Duración: 14min

    Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Rosanna Horst at her Country Porch general store in the heart of uptown Muddy Pond, Tennessee.

  • 49 Winchester—country music’s Buzziest Band

    13/08/2025 Duración: 21min

    Come along and join the conversation to discover the back-story of 49 Winchester—and discover why Rolling Stone Magazine in the September 13, 2022 issue proclaimed the group “Country Music’s Buzziest of Buzz Bands”

  • A conversation with culinary choreographer, Chef Ryan Fancher at Hotel SLO

    26/07/2025 Duración: 22min

    Join correspondent Tom Wilmer at the Hotel SLO in downtown San Luis Obispo for an exploration of fine dining experiences.

  • Paso Robles’ Bellasera Hotel hideaway with trendsetting cuisine

    21/07/2025 Duración: 25min

    Correspondent Tom Wilmer reports from the Bellasera Hotel and onsite Enoteca restaurant where he visits with GM Benny Cendali and master-chef Rachael Zollo.

  • In search of the perfect cup of coffee at Big Island’s Greenwell Farms

    16/07/2025 Duración: 21min

    Exploring the art of brewing the ideal cup of coffee and much more at Greenwell Farms

  • New Brunswick’s Festival Acadien--poignant homage to French Canadian culture

    05/07/2025 Duración: 20min

    Honoring Acadians’ four-hundred-year history in Canada and their return from deportation, New Brunswick's Festival Acadien is one of country's premier cultural celebrations.