Threshold
Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed.
In our latest season, Hark, we hand the mic over to our planet-mates and investigate what it means to truly listen to nonhuman voices—and the cost if we don't. With mounting social and ecological crises, what happens when we tune into the life all around us?
Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 128
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 4 | Out of Africa
Humans first encountered bison more than 75,000 years ago, as we migrated north out of Africa. We retrace that journey across Europe and Asia, and into the Americas.
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 3 | Superintendent Wenk
Yellowstone Park Superintendent Dan Wenk gives his take on the bison conundrum.
Oh, Give Me a Home | 3 | Born Free
Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, you'll meet two cattle ranchers with different persp…
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 2 | Bindu
A Yellowstone visitor tries to explain how it feels to watch the country's largest wild bison herd grazing in the Lamar Valley.
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 1 | Snow
Amy goes off-trail in the Yellowstone snow and discovers how hard it is to be a bison.
Oh, Give Me a Home | 2 | "The Red Man Was Pressed"
How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppression of Native Americans? Find out on this episode of …
Oh, Give Me a Home | 1 | For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People
Yellowstone National Park is where we saved the American bison from extinction. But each year, we slaughter hundreds of animals from this prized herd. Why? Learn more on this episode of Threshold.
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Oh, Give Me A Home | Preview
Each season, Threshold explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season one focuses on the American bison.
When you start out talking about bison, you end up talking about …