Episodes of Scene on Radio
For generations, many on the political right have claimed that major news media in the U.S. have a pronounced liberal bias. Is it true? And why does it matter? We take a fresh look. By John Biewen with…
Many people know that the journalism industry is struggling financially, especially at the local level. But the disastrous depths of that crisis, and its impact on communities and American democracy, are not as well understood….
Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we’re in a deep information crisis. What’s really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about us news…
Welcome to Season 8: The News. Just about everyone is mad at the media, and Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have no shared narrative and few shared facts. Producer…
A rebroadcast of a Scene on Radio episode, eighty years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of…
Michael Kliën wants to help bring about profound change in the world, but not through the usual means. An Austrian-born Dance professor at Duke University, Kliën is a leading social choreographer. He sets up experiments…
With our Capitalism season and the election behind us, now what? Can we find hope and a way forward? In a live show taped December 5, 2024, at Motorco Music Hall in Durham, North Carolina,…
In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structures of capitalism on their heads – or, at least, sideways. By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews…
The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history…
In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we look at reforms aimed at making the current economic system more humane, fair, effective, and sustainable. By John Biewen with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews…
Thanks, Victor! And everyone needs to know that Victor plays a major role in the series in later episodes.
The voices and stories and analyses covered in these episodes couldn't be timelier. I urge folks to check them out!
After 18 months of intense work, we dropped eps 1 and 2 of our new season, The News. We think this project is making some real interventions, as @catchatweetdown
likes to say(!), into the scattered and confused debates about "the media." Check it!
When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild." (link in comment 👇)
