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 of Inside Appalachia is all about how we interact with water and our rivers. We’ll hear from people who make their living on th...
- Added: Aug 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ve got an eclectic mix of stories from across central Appalachia. We check in with residents in Kentucky who are...
- Added: Aug 03, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week’s episode is all about ballad singers and storytellers. If you’ve listened to Inside Appalachia over the past year, there’s a good chance...
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week on Inside Appalachia, we hear stories about places in Appalachia that are drawing visitors and newcomers, sometimes at a cost. The region...
- Added: Jul 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
The story of Appalachia can’t be summarized in one book, one article or one movie. Our region goes beyond just hack stereotypes.
This week on Insi...
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
The natural world can be a source of food and medicine along with a place to escape and unwind. There are people who know plants like they’re old f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In the latest episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll meet a man who makes wooden turkey calls. If you’ve spent any time floating on rivers- have you e...
- Added: Jun 29, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’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
