Episodes

  • WUNC Politics Podcast: The Morale of Public School Teachers

    WUNC Politics Podcast: The Morale of Public School Teachers
    Jul 21 2022
    Public school teachers are leaving their careers at what appear to be alarming rates; one in five in Durham Public Schools and higher-than-normal rates in Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Wake.
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  • Diving with a Purpose

    Diving with a Purpose
    Jul 19 2022
    More than 150 years after the emancipation of slavery in America, a team of dedicated scuba divers is busy excavating and restoring wreckage from slave ships that sank across the Middle Passage.
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  • Who Bans Books - And Why?

    Who Bans Books - And Why?
    Jul 5 2022
    Across the nation, we've seen a spike in book challenges and bans in both school and public libraries, mostly targeting books that center race and LGBT identity. At the end of 2021, Wake County had its own high-profile censorship controversy.
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  • Give Sarah Keys Her Flowers Now

    Give Sarah Keys Her Flowers Now
    Jun 21 2022
    Nearly seven decades after a Black Army private named Sarah Keys helped end discrimination on interstate buses, North Carolina is recognizing her nearly-forgotten civil rights case.
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  • ‘I don’t want to be here when it falls in’: How people on the Outer Banks are wrestling with a vanishing coastline

    ‘I don’t want to be here when it falls in’: How people on the Outer Banks are wrestling with a vanishing coastline
    May 19 2022
    For folks who live on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, keeping up with storm patterns is a pretty common routine. But in recent years, keeping a watchful eye on the horizon has meant bracing for more severe damage to the coast.
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  • Health Care Without Abortion Care

    Health Care Without Abortion Care
    May 12 2022
    There's been a lot of talk about the political ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, but we wanted to explore what the decision would mean for women's health, particularly in North Carolina.
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  • The birth of bluegrass

    The birth of bluegrass
    Apr 19 2022
    Among aficionados and fans of bluegrass, it's generally accepted that this quintessentially American genre of music was born in Nashville, Tennessee and was introduced by Earl Scruggs. But it's Kentuckian Bill Monroe who is known as the "Father of Bluegrass," not Scruggs. And just before Monroe went to the Grand Ole Opry, in 1939, he was performing regularly for a live 15-minute show called Mountain Music Time on WWNC, in Asheville, North Carolina.
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  • Testing the Candidacy of NC Congressman Madison Cawthorn

    Testing the Candidacy of NC Congressman Madison Cawthorn
    Mar 15 2022
    Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn has garnered a lot of attention for himself, mostly as a full-throated supporter of Donald Trump and a rabble rouser at hard-right political rallies. But a group of voters recently sought to prevent him from running again.
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