Tom Wilmer’s Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast, "Journeys of Discovery," is a regular segment on the weekly KCBX program "Issues & Ideas." Tom's interviews are recorded live on location across America and around the world and showcase the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, the culinary arts and more. Tom covers nouns and verbs: people, places, things, and action — everything 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.
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300 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, correspondent Tom Wilmer shares the tranquility of punkaharju-valtionhotelli, a lakeside resort and a chance meetup with former WWII Finnish resistance fighters who have come from across Finland for a reunion in the village of Punkaharju. -
Mike Wolfe visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at his home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee. -
Jimmy Hawkins, 6 year-old Tommy in It's A Wonderful Life, talks about working as a cast member and his subsequent Hollywood career -
In honor of Sergeant York’s birthday (born December 13, 1887) we re-share a visit to his family farmstead in Pall Mall, Tennessee for a visit with his daughter, Betsy and granddaughter Deborah. -
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. -
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. -
Join correspondent Tom Wilmer on Oahu at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii aboard the “Mighty Mo”. -
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. -
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. -
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.
