Inside Appalachia
Series produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Inside Appalachia is our weekly radio and podcast, hosted by Mason Adams. The show highlights West Virginia’s cultural heritage and brings those stories to a broader audience.
Inside Appalachia is currently heard on 33 stations in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
The show highlights West Virginia’s cultural heritage and brings those stories to a broader audience. We strive to tell real stories about what it’s like to live here, and feature Appalachians who are finding unique solutions.
The program gives voice to and provides a platform for the underserved, overlooked, and often dismissed residents of Appalachia.
We’ve recently expanded the show to tell more stories about our region’s diverse arts and culture, through our grant-funded Folkways Project.
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Black and Latino populations have suffered higher infection rates. People working low-income jobs are more likely to be considered essential — and ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In this week's episode, we'll hear stories about relationships, including the awkward missteps of first dates. And we ask a biologist do animals fe...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear from two African American women who challenge stereotypes about Appalachia through their writing, Nikki ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Human beings are social creatures. The pandemic is putting a toll on all of us, in one way or another. It’s also bringing to light just how importa...
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Decades after HIV was first discovered, there’s still discrimination. In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear from several people h...
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 54:00
The real estate market across the country is hot right now, even in parts of Appalachia that have lagged behind trendier destinations. Some of thes...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 53:59
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’re dedicating our show to the art of live storytelling. We’ll learn how musicians Anna and Elizabeth first met a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia features several children's authors, including Cynthia Rylant, who wrote "When I Was Young In The Mountain...
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 54:00
The pandemic has reshaped our world in many ways. Can you remember what life was like before you wore a mask to the grocery store? This has been a ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week, we’ll listen back to an encore edition of Inside Appalachia from last November. It was the first time Mason Adams and Caitlin Tan ever ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
We have a packed episode of Inside Appalachia this week, stuffed with stories of family strife and struggle, revolutionary artists fighting against...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
InsideApp210421: Candy-Makers, Crystal Wilkinson And A Cross-Cultural Music Collaboration, 4/15/2021
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This week's episode is a mix of rich storytelling and cross-cultural collaborations. What happens when a musician from Belarus gets together with A...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Lots of rural communities in Appalachia also have unsafe drinking water. This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear from people in Appalachia who a...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In this day and age, kids spend so much time looking at screens. This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll meet a storyteller and songwriter who inspir...
- Added: May 05, 2021
- Length: 54:00
West Virginia native Anna Sale is host of the popular podcast “Death Sex and Money.” It's a podcast that talks about, as she says, “the things we t...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week on Inside Appalachia, many oil and gas workers come into contact with a fracking byproduct called brine. The gas industry says it’s safe....
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week we're revisiting an episode of Inside Appalachia that features children's authors in and from our region. We'll hear Cynthia Rylant, who...
- Added: May 26, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Over Memorial Day weekend, airports across the country reported the highest numbers of people flying in more than a year. As more of us are dreamin...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 54:00
The pandemic continues to inspire more people to go outside. One result? They’ve found more baby animals. This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll hea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 54:00
When people talk about Appalachian music, banjos and fiddles are often the first thing to come to mind. But what about hip-hop?
In the U.S., rap ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 54:00
