We break our ten month hiatus with an update on vaccines and the path forward, and we visit with a previous guest from London as well as the host's 81-year-old parents to see what's changed in the year since the pandemic started. Just two episo...

On today's show, we celebrate national nurse's week by featuring...ta-da--nurses! We start by talking with Moira Andrews, Homeless Outreach RN for Neighborcare in Seattle, and we finish we Ricky Ewell, a nurse anaesthetist for Greenwich Hospita...

In this week's episode of A Light in the Dark, we look at FOOD in the time of COVID-19. From chefs to fast food restaurants to homeless folks to fine dining to farms and farmer's markets, lovers of food (all of us) and the people who make that ...

Any examination of Washington State's response to COVID19 will reveal a strong, swift response by our leaders that saved countless lives. The difference between our politicians and ones from some other states is that in Washington, public healt...

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and on the show we wanted to talk about where there is possibility and hope in tackling climate change—so we’re focusing on youth voices and science. Those are the two places that give us the most hope. T...

Not even taxes are as sure birth and death in the lives of humans. Today, we tackle both. First, we talk with expecting mother Laura Edelstein, due in July, about being pregnant during a global pandemic. Then, for the interview, Dr. Karen Wyatt...

Today, for Earth Day, we take a journey to Alaska, exploring the Inside Passage of SE Alaska with our tour guide Sue Rooney (who has been working on small ships there for nearly 30 years) as well as visiting with Bob and Leslie Bell in Homer, A...

Today Egan returns with PrideCast co-host and drag legend Aleksa Manila to discuss dogs, cats, and the postponement of Pride in Seattle. They talk with Seattle Pride Executive Director Krystal Marx about the postponement of Seattle's Pride even...

Today, in our "phone a friend" segment, we talk with dancer/pilates instructor Emily and her husband Cody, who works as a software engineer, just as Gov. Abbott of Texas is floating ideas to re-opening the state to business and far-right activi...

Follow host Egan Orion as he goes to Arcpoint Labs in Renton, WA to take one of the first available antibody tests available. Since he'd been to Asia during the coronovirus outbreak there, he thought he might have been exposed. Find out what hi...

Today on the show we explore the impacts of humans on the earth and how that's been reduced during the COVID-19 outbreak. We answer some *really* important questions like: Are birds singing louder now than they were before? Why do crows dive-bo...

Leadership is normally challenging, but during a crisis it really gets tested. Today for our chat, we talk with Seattle Councilmember Andrew Lewis (in his first year in office) about challenges around the homelessness crisis, city and county bu...

Today, we speak with local press to see how they're covering the COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically, we talk to Jason Carder, the publisher of the Capitol Hill Blog, an extremely popular local institution. Most of the blog's posts recently have be...

We all know that the hospitals are full of heroes, the grocery stores replete with people putting themselves at risk to make sure we're all fed...but beyond the front-line, what are other people doing to help keep people safe from COVID-19 and ...

Today, Egan is joined by hostess and celebrity drag queen Aleksa Manila for the beginning of their every Sunday special series "PrideCast" featuring all things good in the LGBTQ+ world. Egan and Aleksa take a deep dive into Easter and Passover ...

Today we travel to Milan, Italy, the longstanding epicenter of the European coronavirus epidemic, to meet Scott Green, who's been living there since before the severe lockdown there. We talk about his Italian partner's baking and cooking, the d...

In a former life, host Egan Orion was one of America's most prolific flash mob producers, and today is the 10th anniversary of one of the country's biggest flash mobs, the 2010 Glee Flash Mob in Seattle, with 1000 participants. Choreographers a...

Today, we take you into the heart of the American pandemic to find out how people are coping. We talk to Claudine and learn about puzzles with friends over coffee. An engaged couple, Scot and Evan, discover the ups and downs of living with your...

Today is another chapter in our "first person COVID-19" series, featuring Annie from Bodega Bay, California. She'd been to Asia, she'd been around people who had been deathly sick with symptoms that mirror those of COVID-19, and on top of it ha...

We all need food. Our local farmers provide a lot of that food. But during the time of COVID-19, farmers are having a more difficult time getting their food to your table, with many restaurants closed, all farmers' markets in Seattle closed, an...

What’s it like to have a birthday during the time of COVID-19? Get two stories on today’s show, one in the city and one in the country. Very different experiences of birthdays during this time but perspectives that will give you hope in humanit...

Today we're previewing our new Sunday LITD format, PrideFest, with hosts Egan Orion and Aleksa Manila. We discuss what we're hoping to do every Sunday with the PrideCast and how we can connect the LGBTQ community during this isolating time. We ...

Today, Egan talks with Rachel Bentley in London, UK about their lockdown, challenges for people living outside (called "sleeping rough" in the UK), the joys of songbirds, and what she hopes for after all of this is over. A candid, casual conver...

Today, we explore all the nooks and crannies of the Seattle-based program "Food is Love Project" that gets restaurants cooking and gets meals to vulnerable families and people experiencing homelessness. The three founders of the program, Egan O...

On today's show, we meet a young man who waits for a COVID-19 test result as his mom lies a world away in Tennessee in critical care on a ventilator. And a local Seattle institution, the Seattle Folklife Festival, decides to postpone its event....