VPM; Connecticut Public Radio; NCPR; WWNO; OPB; Colorado Public Radio
VPM; Connecticut Public Radio; NCPR; WWNO; OPB; Colorado Public Radio
Enjoy spring flowers, get outside, and listen to a new podcast. The NPR One team has rounded up some returning favorites, as well as some new releases from across public media.
The following podcast episode descriptions are from the podcast webpage and have been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Big changes — WWNO and WRKF
Sea Change is back with a new season. And this time, the stakes are even higher. We launch new research and travel around the world to see how big changes are underway to solve some of our biggest problems. Explore and celebrate changing coastal life. Every two weeks, we bring you stories that delve into the environmental issues facing communities on the Gulf Coast and other coastal regions, illuminating, inspiring, and sometimes infuriating. We have so much to save and so many solutions. It's time to talk about sea change.
Listen to “All Gassed Up, Part 1: Carbon Coast.”
Lost Patient — KUOW
Imagine a vast house where every room, doorway, and hallway passageway was designed by a different architect. The entrance and exit are not connected. The stairs lead nowhere. The rooms are isolated from each other. This is how reporter Will James describes the complex system for treating people with severe mental illness. This system, almost by design, funnels mentally ill patients into an endless loop between the streets, prisons, clinics, courtrooms, and dwindling hospital beds. Lost Patients is his series of six-part, deeply reported documentaries that examine the challenges of treating serious mental illness through the lens of one city's past, present, and future. . Lost Patients uses real-life stories from patients, families, and front-line professionals to explain how we got stuck here and what we can do to get out. Provides a realistic, solution-oriented perspective.
Listen to part 1, “Churn.”
Modern West — Wyoming Public Media
Exactly 100 years after a woman named Eleanor Davis became the first woman on record to climb Grand Teton (the 14,000-foot mountain for which Grand Teton National Park is named), the all-female A group of climbers is climbing the mountain. Standing on the peak to celebrate her accomplishments. Hannah Haberman also accompanied me on the adventure.
Start listening to Part 1 of High Altitude Tales, “Courage is a Muscle.”
Throughline — NPR
how did we get here? That's the fundamental question behind the Throughline series. Origin of the Middle East conflict. The series explores Hamas's roots in early Islamist movements, the influence of Iran and Hezbollah in its adoption of suicide bombings and other violent strategies, the role played by the Palestine Liberation Organization, how the two intifadas moved the needle, and It explores the role of Israelis and Palestinians. , and the American politics that have brought us to today's moment.
Listen to “The Rise of the Right in Israel.”
Quen Are With? — Colorado Public Radio
Get ready for the new season of Quién Are We?, a podcast about being Latinx, Hispanic, Chicana, or however you identify. And the beautiful things that make us who we are. Host and journalist May Ortega once again shares the everyday stories of amazing people exploring their heritage through her personal passions. Hear from artists, anthropologists, and game makers. You can hear about the relationship between the two, who went from enemies to lovers, and the relationship between father and son. Most importantly, you can hear your own voice in these stories.
Start listening to “The Therapist.”
Tracking changes — VPM
Four men incarcerated in a Virginia prison record an album documenting their efforts to break free from the oppressive cycle of addiction and incarceration. In each musically inspired episode of this documentary series, host and pioneering hip-hop artist Speech Thomas meets musicians at the crossroads of their difficult struggle for freedom and what led them to this turning point. Learn about their passion and help them record the songs that capture their hearts. This critical moment in their lives. From soulful country to hard-hitting hip-hop to haunting R&B, this music affirms the lives of those marginalized by society. And in the midst of a reentry crisis that afflicts millions of Americans each year, these intimate stories from behind the walls of local prisons ask what it takes to rebuild a life after incarceration. Masu.
Listen to Episode 1, “I wrote this to inspire you.”
Salmon Wars — OPB
Salmon Wars tells the story of Northwest salmon in a way never heard before, through the voices of the Yakama families who have fought for them for generations. We investigate to find out who is to blame for the salmon's disappearance, what can be done before it's too late, and why their disappearance affects us all…
Listen to “Episode 1: Family.”
Unforgettable: Connecticut's Hidden Slavery — Connecticut Public Radio
When we think of slavery in the United States, we don't usually think of the North. However, enslavement of people was legal in Connecticut for over 200 years and was officially abolished in 1848. In the first episode, reporter and producer Diane Orson and editorial consultant and curator Frank Mitchell dig into complex questions. “Who owns this history?” Who should present it? How was this history hidden? There is a deep-seated perception that North Korea is home to “good people,” or abolitionists. The truth is very different. Hear from the people who shed light on this history and why it matters.
Listen to “Episode 1: Slavery has deep roots in New England.”
Howl — NCPR
true story. There are no notes. That's the HOWL Podcast. Recorded live on a stage in upstate New York, his HOWL includes stories of being hunted by Bigfoot, cooking with a car engine, and drugging dogs. Masu. Host Ethan Shanti combines stories from his time as a writer, punk musician, and lifelong New Yorker with stories from everyday people in communities across New York's “North Country.” In the latest final episode of Season 2, Ethan tells the story of his bootlegger family and his live storyteller Olivia talks about his wrestling world on Underground Jelly.
Listen to “I just found out that my great-grandparents were bootleggers.”
NPR's Jessica Green and Jack Mitchell curated and produced this piece.
