Scene on Radio
Episodes
Reality is Not the Stronger (Travels With Mic, Part 2)
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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-wi...
Monster America (Travels With Mic, Part 1)
16 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
El Nuevo South
02 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Prince and Philando and Futures Untold
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sta...
None of Us Could be Thrown Away (Storymakers, Part 4)
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The last installment in our Storymakers series. Four pieces by citizen storytellers on living together, and apart, in Durham, North Carolina. By Vimal...
That Old Optimism (Storymakers, Part 3)
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
The Way It Is (Storymakers, Part 2)
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Three stories conceived and made by citizen storytellers Jamila Davenport, Roberto Nava, and Debby Bussel explore race, class, and gentrification in...
Finding America in Durham, N.C. (Storymakers, Part 1)
15 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Can stories help to bring a community together? How about radio stories, conceived and made by citizen storytellers? Introducing Storymakers: Durham...
Hearing Hiroshima
26 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 millio...
My Dad and Me, in Three Songs
18 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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. Learn about your ad choice...
Close Relations
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Selected ShortDocs: Memory
20 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A quartet of very short works exploring memory – most inspired by Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Challenges. Pieces by Ligaiya Romero, Madeline...
Rogue Chickens and Ratty-ass Radishes
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Things I'm Afraid to Say
23 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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. Learn about your a...
Groundwork
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
People in two communities – one in Alaska, one in New York State – wrestle with questions about energy and the environment. We listen in on democr...
Straight, No Chaser
24 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 Kof...
Losing Yourself
10 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It happens. A happy, healthy young person suddenly gets a grave diagnosis. What does not usually happen: The patient rolls tape. By Ibby Caputo. Lear...
The Dead Can't Do You Nothing
27 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Right Note
13 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Music can be a powerful gift – if you get the song right, or the right song. Two stories from North Carolina. Learn about your ad choices: dovet...
Emmett and Trayvon
30 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 H...
No Santa
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Hijabis
02 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The surest way for a woman to declare herself a Muslim is to wear the head scarf — the hijab. In these two short pieces, young Muslim women explore...
What Men Talk About When They Talk About Sports
18 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A Level Playing Field?
04 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 diffe...
An Athlete Inside and Out
21 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 muc...
The (High School) Mascot Wars
07 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 Reds...
Friends and Basketball
23 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Sports, the Great Uniter?
01 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...