Join filmmaker Ken Burns in an exploration of the greatest artist/scientist/seeker of all time, plus a preview of Ken's next series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Couldn't resist another story in the sprit of Ireland. There's no intro, no host narrator. Just dive in and meet the late Packie Byrne - a friend, storyteller and musician of renown. We met in 2007 in the town of Ardara, near Donegal, where Irish music lives and thrives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Master storyteller Eddie Lenihan weaves a tale from the Other Side. You'll never think of the wee folk in quite the same way again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

In the rural Cajun communities of south Louisiana, Mardi Gras is organized mayhem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Basile, Louisiana has its own unique Mardi Gras song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

In the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors, to support a communal gumbo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

"Forget about your job, your worries, your bills.." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

The roots of Mardi Gras run deeper than Christianity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Headphones on! Picture being under a palm tree next to a burbling brook in the middle of California's Anza-Borrego desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Scientists are finding ways to help plants absorb fertilizers and nutrients more efficiently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Keeping rare birds home on the range. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Up close with one of the rarest bird populations in North America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

When the weather's been cold and the Hudson River freezes over, that's when ice boats may be sailing on the river. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Australia is home to about one tenth of the world's living bird species. Here's a sampling of a few of them - headphones on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Headphones on for a sound portrait of a cloud forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

It's sugaring time in the northeast woods of the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

For bears in hibernation, giving birth and nursing newborns is a slumberous activity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Bears have unique mechanisms for self-preservation during their months of hibernation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Grizzly bear tracking usually involves splitting a few hairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Are Grizzly bears returning to the mountains of Montana? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Through trickery and ingenuity, ravens are surviving the winter in Alaska Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

The precise role of the humpback whale's song is unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

Harikuyo is a memorial service for the broken sewing needles of the past year, celebrated across Japan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

They might be the source of many ocean myths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner

The wail of the Indri lemur signals the mating season of these primates that some tribes consider the ancestors of humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Jim Metzner