Podcasts by Scene on Radio
Further podcasts by Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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Update: Scene on Radio status report from 2023-06-02T14:00
Scene on Radio is on an extended hiatus, but is on its way back. Host and producer John Biewen explains that the show has found a new home: the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
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"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast from 2022-08-10T12:45
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation...
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White Affirmative Action: Rebroadcast from 2022-07-27T12:45
When it comes to U.S. government programs and support designed to benefit particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have received most of the handouts. Part of our summer mini-seas...
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Losing Ground: Rebroadcast from 2022-07-13T12:45
The next in our summer mini-season of rebroadcasts: For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say...
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Bonus: Introducing Hot Take from 2022-07-06T12:45
In this bonus episode we share a recent installment from Hot Take, the climate podcast co-hosted by Amy Westervelt (co-host/reporter for our Season 5 series on climate, The Repair) and writer Ma...
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Himpathy: Rebroadcast from 2022-06-29T12:45
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved o...
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Things I'm Afraid to Say: Rebroadcast from 2022-06-15T12:45
A refugee from war in Eastern Europe. An NYC-born survivor who grew up poor, Black, Muslim, and gay. And how one, and her music, saved the other. By Aleks Basic, featuring Laila Nur. Part of our...
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Prince and Philando and Futures Untold: Rebroadcast from 2022-06-01T12:45
How to grieve when the deaths come so quickly? How, as a Black mother in America, to protect your child’s innocence and hope? An audio essay by Stacia Brown. The first in a summer mini-season of...
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S5 E11: Change Everything from 2021-12-15T13:45
In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make — in the West, and the U.S. in particular — to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with...
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S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source from 2021-12-08T13:45
The first of two concluding episodes in Season 5, in which we focus on solutions. In Part 10 of The Repair, we look at the actions and policies that people need to push for —now — to av...
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S5 E9: Pachamama from 2021-12-01T13:45
In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature” – infusing the l...
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S5 E8: Last Orders from 2021-11-24T13:45
Among the wealthy, industrialized Western countries that created the climate crisis, Scotland is one of the leaders in pivoting away from fossil fuels – or promising to. Just how quickly will Sc...
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S5 E7: Deluges and Dreams from 2021-11-17T13:45
The climate crisis is not new to Bangladesh. For decades, global warming has exacerbated storms and flooding and turned many thousands of people into refugees in their own country. Yet, even tho...
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S5 E6: "We Don't Have the Power to Fight It" from 2021-11-02T12:45
Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence – for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeri...
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Bonus Episode: Manchin on the Hill, and Introducing Drilled from 2021-10-20T12:45
Co-hosts John Biewen and Amy Westervelt discuss the U.S. Congress’s effort to pass its first major climate bill ever, and Senator Joe Manchin’s move to block a key measure seemingly on behalf of...
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S5 E5: Jakarta, the Sinking Capital from 2021-10-13T12:45
Southeast Asia is especially vulnerable to storms, rising oceans, and other climate effects—though countries in the region did very little to create the crisis. In Indonesia, among other climate...
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S5 E4: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell from 2021-10-06T12:45
Why has the United States played such an outsized role in the creation of the climate crisis? As a settler nation, the U.S. emerged from the colonizing, capitalist West, but what did America and...
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S5 E3: "Managing" Nature from 2021-09-29T12:45
If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? In fact, did cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide...
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S5 E2: To the Victor from 2021-09-22T12:45
How western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, from the Crusades to capitalism. Part 2 of our series, The Repair, on the climate crisis.
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S5 E1: In the Beginning from 2021-09-15T13:00
Part 1 of our series on the climate emergency. How did we drive ourselves into the ecological ditch? And, crucially, who is this ‘we’? Our story starts with … Genesis.
By host and produ...
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Season 5 Trailer: The Repair from 2021-08-23T16:35:52
This season will explore the cultural roots of our current ecological emergency, and the deep changes Western society will need to make to save the Earth and our species. Through interviews with...
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REBROADCAST: S4 E8 The Second Redemption from 2021-01-13T14:55:51
This special re-broadcast of a Season 4 episode is in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. A look at the right-wing counterrevolution in the face of expanding democrac...
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BONUS EPISODE: Election 2020 from 2020-11-24T14:22:38
What does the 2020 election in the United States tell us, or remind us, about the state of democracy in America? A follow-up to our Season 4 series on democracy, The Land That Never Has Been...
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Hearing Hiroshima (Rebroadcast) from 2020-08-03T13:00
The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team. In 1995, John ...
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S4 E12: More Democracy from 2020-06-10T17:47:45
What will it take to make the United States a more fully-functioning democracy, and how can we, as citizens, bring about that change?
By host and producer John Biewen, with series colla...
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S4 E11: More Truth from 2020-05-27T13:00
How well do the news media serve us as citizens, and what role does the notion of “objective,” or “neutral,” journalism play in the failings of American democracy?
Story reported by Lewi...
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S4 E10: Schooled for Democracy from 2020-05-13T13:00
In most American schools, children *hear about* democracy, but don’t get to *practice* it. What would a more engaged brand of civics education look like?
Story reported by Ben James, wit...
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S4 E9: American Empire from 2020-04-29T13:00
“America” and “empire.” Do those words go together? If so, what kind of imperialism does the U.S. practice, and how has American empire changed over time?
By host and producer John Biew...
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S4 E8: The Second Redemption from 2020-04-15T13:00
The conservative, neoliberal counterrevolution in the face of expanding democracy in America: It started long before Donald Trump. Even before Ronald Reagan and his like-minded counterpart acros...
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S4 E7: Freedom Summer from 2020-04-01T15:30
In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi to place themselves in the path of white supremacist power and violence. They issued a bold...
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Bonus Episode: Pandemic America from 2020-03-27T13:00
In this special episode, host John Biewen and series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss
the coronavirus pandemic and how the crisis, and the nation’s response to it, echo themes we’re ...
S4 E6: A New Deal from 2020-03-17T13:00
The Great Depression presented a crisis not only for the U.S. economy, but for American democracy. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to save the nation’s system of government, and its economic...
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S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White from 2020-03-04T16:45
People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inseparable—certainly from the perspective of bla...
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S4 E4: The Second Revolution from 2020-02-19T16:45
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic cha...
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S4 E3: The Cotton Empire from 2020-02-05T16:45
In the decades after America’s founding and the establishment of the Constitution, did the nation get better, more just, more democratic? Or did it double down on violent conquest and exploitati...
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S4 E3: The Cotton Empire from 2020-02-05T16:45
In the decades after America’s founding and the establishment of the Constitution, did the nation get better, more just, more democratic? Or did it double down on violent conquest and exploitati...
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S4 E2: "The Excess of Democracy" from 2020-01-22T16:45
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation...
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S4 E1: Rich Man's Revolt from 2020-01-08T16:45
In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish...
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Season 4 Trailer: The Land That Never Has Been Yet from 2019-12-18T16:45
Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of money in politics, but we’ll go much deeper, effe...
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S3 E12: The End of Male Supremacy? from 2018-12-12T16:30
In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from scholar Melvin Konner, who argues that we are...
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S3 E12: The End of Male Supremacy? from 2018-12-12T16:30
In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from scholar Melvin Konner, who argues that we are...
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S3 E11: Domination from 2018-11-28T16:30:13
Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-century America. What John finds is more complicat...
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S3 E11: Domination from 2018-11-28T16:30:13
Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-century America. What John finds is more...
S3 E10: The Juggernaut from 2018-11-14T16:30
Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional ...
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S3 E10: The Juggernaut from 2018-11-14T16:30
Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional ...
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S3 E9: Be Like You from 2018-10-31T15:30
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of that meant he...
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S3 E9: Be Like You from 2018-10-31T15:30
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of tha...
S3 E8: American Made from 2018-10-17T16:00
American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop culture and the...
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S3 E8: American Made from 2018-10-17T16:00
American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop cultu...
S3 E7: Himpathy from 2018-10-03T16:00
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved o...
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S3 E7: Himpathy from 2018-10-03T16:00
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by h...
S3 E6: Warriors from 2018-09-19T16:00
Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars?
Along with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste...
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S3 E6: Warriors from 2018-09-19T16:00
Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars?
Along with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste...
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S3 E5: More Than Paper Cuts from 2018-09-05T16:00
The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disrespect all...
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S3 E5: More Than Paper Cuts from 2018-09-05T16:00
The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disr...
S3 E4: Feminism in Black and White from 2018-08-22T16:00
The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at the intersections between male dominance and ...
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S3 E4: Feminism in Black and White from 2018-08-22T16:00
The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at the intersections between male domi...
S3 E3: Skeleton War from 2018-08-08T16:00:42
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminis...
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S3 E3: Skeleton War from 2018-08-08T16:00:42
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminis...
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S3 E2: Ain't No Amoeba from 2018-07-25T16:00
For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but straight-up...
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S3 E2: Ain't No Amoeba from 2018-07-25T16:00
For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but s...
S3 E1: Dick Move from 2018-07-11T16:00
Launching our Season 3 series, co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the latest scholarship on how, when, and why...
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S3 E1: Dick Move from 2018-07-11T16:00
Launching our Season 3 series, co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the latest scholarship on how, when, a...
Scene on Radio Season 3: MEN Trailer from 2018-06-27T16:00
Scene on Radio opens its Season 3 series, MEN, with this preview. Host John Biewen introduces the series with series co-host Celeste Headlee.
Music Evgueni and Sacha Galperine....
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I Know It's You (Rebroadcast) from 2017-12-13T15:02:53
A father turns on a recorder while tucking in his 7-year-old, having no idea he’s about to capture a poignant growing-up moment in his son’s life. (Advisory: This episode is not suitable for som...
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Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14) from 2017-08-24T16:00
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika,...
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White Affirmative Action (Seeing White, Part 13) from 2017-08-09T16:00
When it comes to U.S. government programs and support earmarked for the benefit of particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have received most of the goodies.
By John Biew...
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Losing Ground from 2017-07-26T16:00
For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say that over the next twenty-five years, the U.S. gove...
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My White Friends (Seeing White, Part 12) from 2017-07-12T16:00
For years, Myra Greene had explored blackness through her photography, often in self-portraits. She wondered, what would it mean to take pictures of whiteness? For her friends, what was it like ...
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Danger (Seeing White, Part 11) from 2017-06-28T16:00
For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with an African Americ...
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Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10) from 2017-06-14T16:00
The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenshi...
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A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9) from 2017-05-31T16:00
In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial ...
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Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8) from 2017-05-17T16:00
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and so...
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Chenjerai’s Challenge (Seeing White, Part 7) from 2017-05-05T13:55:10
“How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Chenjerai Kumanyika puts that question to host John Biewen, as they revisit an unfinished conversation from a previous episode. Part 7 of our s...
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That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6) from 2017-04-26T15:58:11
When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends a...
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Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5) from 2017-04-12T16:00
Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen heard next to nothing about the town’s most important historical event. In 1862, Mankato was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history ...
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On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4) from 2017-03-30T17:26:56
“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the...
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Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3) from 2017-03-16T15:13:21
Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American sla...
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How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2) from 2017-03-01T17:00
For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know ...
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Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1) from 2017-02-15T17:00
Events of the past few years have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States. An introduction to our series exploring what it means to be White. By John ...
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Movement Time from 2017-01-25T17:00
Facts can be ignored by the powers that be and still ignite a movement. An interview with Tim Tyson, author of the new book, The Blood of Emmett Till. Tyson was the first historian or j...
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Emmett and Trayvon (Rebroadcast) from 2017-01-11T17:00
There’s a long and painful history in the U.S. of white men killing black men and boys without punishment. In this episode, we listen in on “Dar He,” the one-man play by Mike Wiley that brings t...
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I Found No Strangers (Travels With Mic, Part 3) from 2016-12-14T17:00
The last in our series exploring the spirit of America in the footsteps of one of its greatest writers, John Steinbeck. At key spots on Steinbeck’s 1960 journey across the country, we team up wi...
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Reality is Not the Stronger (Travels With Mic, Part 2) from 2016-11-30T17:00
The second in a three-part series, journeying into the soul of America through the eyes of artists, while following in the footsteps of Nobel Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck who drove across...
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Monster America (Travels With Mic, Part 1) from 2016-11-16T17:00
First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam i...
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El Nuevo South from 2016-11-02T16:00
Siler City, North Carolina used to be a typical Southern town. Everybody was white or black. Now the town’s population is half Latino. One community’s journey through the “five stages of grief” ...
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Prince and Philando and Futures Untold from 2016-10-19T16:00
How to grieve when the deaths come so quickly? How, as an African American mother, to protect your child’s innocence and hope? An audio essay by Stacia Brown.
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Scene on Radio Season 2 Preview from 2016-10-07T13:30:04
Scene on Radio is a podcast that asks, How’s it going out there? And leaves the studio to find out, capturing the sounds of life happening and telling stories that explore human experie...
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None of Us Could be Thrown Away (Storymakers, Part 4) from 2016-07-27T16:00
The last installment in our Storymakers series. Four pieces by citizen storytellers on living together, and apart, in Durham, North Carolina. By Vimala Rajendran, Chip and Teddy Denton, Courtney...
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That Old Optimism (Storymakers, Part 3) from 2016-07-13T16:00
More from our team of citizen storytellers in Durham, NC. Stories by Courtney Smith, Katt Ryce, and Kimani Hall, exploring the things that unite and divide people in Durham and in America. Part ...
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The Way It Is (Storymakers, Part 2) from 2016-06-30T13:10:09
Three stories conceived and made by citizen storytellers Jamila Davenport, Roberto Nava, and Debby Bussel explore race, class, and gentrification in Durham, North Carolina.
Part of Stor...
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Finding America in Durham, N.C. (Storymakers, Part 1) from 2016-06-15T16:00
Can stories help to bring a community together? How about radio stories, conceived and made by citizen storytellers? Introducing Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #Findin...
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Hearing Hiroshima from 2016-05-26T16:00
The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team. How did the ca...
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My Dad and Me, in Three Songs from 2016-05-18T16:35:59
It can take a lifetime to make sense of a parent, or to get over him. Or, just maybe, to come to terms. By Ruxandra Guidi.
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Close Relations from 2016-05-04T16:00
The people we love have power—the power to upend our lives, or at least to make things interesting. Two stories of surprises, curveballs thrown by family members. Pieces by Qathi Hart and John R...
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Selected ShortDocs: Memory from 2016-04-20T16:00
A quartet of very short works exploring memory – most inspired by Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Challenges. Pieces by Ligaiya Romero, Madeline Miller, Nan Pincus, and John Biewen.
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Rogue Chickens and Ratty-ass Radishes from 2016-04-06T15:55:40
A punk farmer. A tale of rogue chickens on the loose in the city. A pair of refreshing takes on the whole Food thing, in and around Durham, NC. Pieces by Emily Hilliard and Joseph Decosimo.
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Things I'm Afraid to Say from 2016-03-23T16:00
A refugee from Bosnia. An NYC-born survivor who grew up poor, black, Muslim, and gay. And how one, and her music, saved the other.
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Groundwork from 2016-03-09T17:00
People in two communities – one in Alaska, one in New York State – wrestle with questions about energy and the environment. We listen in on democracy close to home. Stories by John Biewen and Jo...
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Straight, No Chaser from 2016-02-24T17:00
A South Sudanese refugee and the music that cuts his heart to pieces. Thelonious Monk’s North Carolina roots. Music and home. Pieces by Nusaibah Kofar-Naisa and John Biewen.
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Losing Yourself from 2016-02-10T17:00
It happens. A happy, healthy young person suddenly gets a grave diagnosis. What does not usually happen: The patient rolls tape. By Ibby Caputo.
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The Dead Can't Do You Nothing from 2016-01-27T17:00
It waits for us all. A lot of people want to think about death as little as possible. Others want to dive right in and explore the mystery. Two short docs on the Big D.
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The Right Note from 2016-01-13T17:00
Music can be a powerful gift – if you get the song right, or the right song. Two stories from North Carolina.
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Emmett and Trayvon from 2015-12-30T16:43:56
There’s a long and painful history in the U.S. of white men killing black men and boys without punishment. In this episode, we listen in on “Dar He,” the one-man play by Mike Wiley that brings t...
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What Men Talk About When They Talk About Sports from 2015-11-18T17:00
Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our se...
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A Level Playing Field? from 2015-11-04T16:57:16
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on ...
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An Athlete Inside and Out from 2015-10-21T16:00
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our...
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The (High School) Mascot Wars from 2015-10-07T15:57:29
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins.
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Friends and Basketball from 2015-09-23T16:00
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involve...
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Sports, the Great Uniter? from 2015-09-01T14:50:09
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen explores the question in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center f...
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