Campus, community, and faith in eastern Idaho.
BYU-Idaho Radio covers the civic, campus, and faith life surrounding BYU-Idaho and eastern Idaho. Its segments move from practical community interviews to polished feature stories and devotional addresses, usually with a measured emphasis on service, education, and personal purpose.
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BYU-Idaho Radio presents local news, campus reporting, interviews, and faith-centered addresses with a calm public-service sensibility. The show is broad, but not scattered. Its pieces are usually organized around people trying to explain a program, a project, an event, or a life decision in enough detail that the audience understands why it matters. Community interviews often start with a personal background before turning to the practical subject at hand. Mike Bruton describes rockhounding, club culture, family activities, demonstrations, and the pull of Idaho’s mountains. Emily Sellers explains Bridle Up Hope through equestrian lessons, community support, confidence, and the attempt to connect classroom principles with arena work. Education appears again and again. BYU-Idaho’s use of artificial intelligence becomes a story about learning, academic integrity, writing, and the limits of detection tools. Idaho Falls School District 91’s online program becomes a discussion about access, core classes, summer options, multilingual content, and changing family needs. Student work receives a similar seriousness, whether the subject is smart devices and young children or the path from communication studies toward a senior project. The show also carries a devotional and institutional register. A commencement address by Elder Jose A. Teixeira frames graduation through effort, sacrifice, faith, and gratitude. A BYU-Pathway Worldwide story follows Dwayne J. Van Heerden through postponed education, church service, family sacrifice, and completion. Creative work has a place too, as Liana Tan reflects on media, acting, documentation, and the early impulse to make things. The pace is rarely sharp or jokey. It gives guests time to develop a thought, then returns to a clear takeaway. The strongest throughline is formation: how schools, families, faith, service, and local institutions shape people over time. BYU-Idaho Radio is best understood as regional storytelling with a campus anchor and a moral center.
Made for: For listeners interested in BYU-Idaho, eastern Idaho community life, education, service programs, and faith-informed personal stories. It especially suits people who prefer measured interviews and reflective reporting over fast commentary.
What sets it apart: Its range is unusually local and institutionally grounded: school programs, student research, nonprofit work, creative careers, rock shows, pathway education, and devotional addresses all share the same careful editorial frame.
The BYU-Idaho Radio Podcast includes local news, interviews, and BYU-Idaho devotional addresses. Check out our other podcasts for more content: BYU-Idaho Radio Headlines, BYU-Idaho Radio's The Spot, and BYU-Idaho Disciple Journeys.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes East Idaho's concerns legible through patient interviews, field-level environmental detail and candidly confessional campus addresses.
BYU-Idaho Radio moves between East Idaho interviews and formal university devotionals, letting regional life, conservation and Latter-day Saint belief share the same feed.
One feed takes you from a sage-grouse lek to the covenant path without leaving eastern Idaho.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A devotional case for study that treats books and revelation as partners.
BYU's Academic Vice President frames education as a devotional practice, opening with an Easter poem about the risen Christ and building on Joseph Smith to argue that learning deepens when books, reason, prayer, and revelation work together.
A candid look at how one creator fits radio, auditions, and family into the same day.
BYU-Idaho Radio presents a conversation about the practical side of a creative life, with Natalia Dyer speaking to an East Idaho creator about media, acting, family, and faith.
A steady devotional that joins Romans 8, covenant life, and a quietly useful story about courage.
John Linford's devotional treats conversion as a continuing work rather than a one-time credential. It moves from Romans 8 to President Russell M. Nelson's covenant path, then settles into a memory of a tenth-grade crush and the slower lesson of asking God for courage.
A careful look at a bird and a landscape that has quietly thinned.
An outdoor journalist returns to two decades of sage-grouse reporting and uses a new documentary to show how far the bird's range has narrowed.
Regional sustainability, explained through real-world change.
Sacred land, defended in full context.
Accountability radio for serious citizens.
Climate progress, measured against reality.
John Linford, retiring Academic Vice President of BYU-Idaho, delivers a devotional address on spiritual conversion.
Natalia Dyer talks with an East Idaho creator about how a media and acting career took shape.
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The host talks with a guest about sage-grouse, leks, and a new documentary.
On BYU-Idaho Radio, Riley Church interviews leadership coach Bethany Stone about the East Idaho Women in Leadership Summit planned for October 23.
BYU-Idaho Radio's interview about Brother Joseph Again follows a locket photograph and efforts to identify Joseph Smith's likeness.
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BYU-Idaho Radio interviews Joshua Graham, an assistant professor of art education at the University of Utah, about his mixed-media exhibit Walking the Divide at the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho.
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This episode features an interview with Mike Bruton, president of the Idaho Falls Gem and Mineral Society, discussing the upcoming 60th annual rock show and explaining the hobby of rockhounding.
This episode features an interview with Emily Sellers, Executive Director of Bridle Up Hope, discussing the organization's new Idaho Falls location and its equine-assisted learning program designed to empower women and girls through horse interaction.
This episode explores how BYU-Idaho is navigating the integration of AI in education, focusing on academic integrity challenges, the limitations of AI detection tools, and ensuring AI enhances rather than replaces student learning.
Idaho Falls School District Superintendent Carla LaOrange discusses her background in education and the upcoming expansion of the district's online program.
Elder Jose A.
This episode features an interview with East Idaho creator Liana Tan, discussing her decade-long career in media and acting, her childhood passion for filming and performance, and how she overcame perceptions of shyness.
This episode honors John Linford's retirement as academic vice president at BYU-Idaho, highlighting his 22-year impact on the church educational system and personal qualities as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
An outdoor journalist recounts her two-decade experience covering sage grouse, including a memorable early visit to a lek where she observed the birds' mating rituals with a biologist.
This episode features an interview with BYU-Idaho teacher and artist Brian Call about his painting for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Greater Love Easter campaign and his journey as an artist.
The introduction places the speaker at BYU, where he serves as Academic Vice President.
BYU-Idaho professor Rex Butterfield discusses the university's annual Christian Passover meal event, which commemorates Easter through a modified Seder experience tailored for LDS members.