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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This week’s episode is all about ballad singers and storytellers. We’ll hear an interview with West Virginia native Becca Spence Dobias who wrote a...
- Added: Apr 19, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll visit a luthier’s shop where old instruments get new life, hear about a new comedy film set in Beckley, West ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2022
- Length: 53:30
The downturn of coal in Harlan County, Kentucky has led to an exodus of Black residents in search of work. This week on Inside Appalachia, we liste...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 53:30
What is Appalachia? We’re giving our entire Inside Appalachia episode over to this question this week, with stories from Mississippi to Pittsburgh....
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll listen back to an encore episode, all about how women in the mountains spearheaded movements to battle racial...
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Lawmakers across Appalachia are debating how issues of race are taught in public schools. At least nine states have already banned teachers from br...
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 53:30
If you think about one dish that has sustained generations of Appalachian people — what comes to mind? When we put the question on social media, ma...
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’re airing an encore episode, which features a story about a park in southwestern Virginia that was created durin...
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Last December, tornadoes ripped through our region, killing almost a hundred people and leaving many more without homes. Thousands of people applie...
- Added: Feb 22, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Think back to your American history class. We all learned about the Civil War, but what did you learn about the years after the war ended? On Insid...
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Valentine’s Day gets a lot of flack for being sappy, cliche or just a marketing ploy by card and chocolate companies. But we tend to think there is...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia features stories about a West Virginia black metal band that plays songs about local history. We’ll hear h...
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia is packed with stories from across central Appalachia, featuring creative people who are finding ways to a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Schools are facing unprecedented staff shortages, here in Appalachia and across the country. In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll hea...
- Added: Jan 21, 2022
- Length: 53:30
For some, winter can be a difficult time -- dark and cold. For others, time outside in the winter is a powerful experience. After everything we’ve ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 53:30
People in coal country are pleading for help as coal’s decline accelerates. This week on Inside Appalachia, we explore the economic and health impa...
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 54:00
In this episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear stories from creators across Appalachia and how they process their lives through their art. Everyt...
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we explore stories about the power of memory and tradition. Listeners across Appalachia share some of ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia we hear a roundup of some of our region’s news, from recovery efforts in Kentucky following devastating...
- Added: Dec 15, 2021
- Length: 54:00
What is Appalachia? We’re giving our entire Inside Appalachia episode over to this question this week, with stories from Mississippi to Pittsburgh....
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 54:00
