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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’re revisiting a show that originally aired last fall. We hear what happens when Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei comb...
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week, we’ll meet a young man from West Virginia’s Lebanese community, who says he’s determined to preserve its long-running traditions- inclu...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 54:00
It’s a new year. Many of us are hoping it’ll be a better one. Vaccines could bring a bit of normalcy back to our lives. But we have a lot of work a...
- Added: Jan 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
A few years ago, our Inside Appalachia team set out to document the lives of six Appalachians who were trying to decide if they could find a stable...
- Added: Dec 30, 2020
- Length: 54:00
Have you ever noticed how conversations about food can lead us to learn surprising things about each other? In this week’s episode of Inside Appala...
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on Inside Appalachia we’ll hear about family found in unexpected places — like a West Virginia family who got a letter from a sister in A...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 53:59
In this episode we hear the story of Iraqi War veteran Mark Combs. A few years ago, he recorded his journey, as he left Appalachia to become a come...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 54:00
In the latest episode of Inside Appalachia, we hear from working parents. How has the pandemic rearranged your life?
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 53:59
It’s been quite a stressful couple of months for most of us. So we wanted to slow down, take a breath, and start off this week's episode talking ab...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 54:00
In this week's episode, we'll explore how family shapes us, and how people are finding new ways to connect with loved ones, even those we’ve never ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 54:00
Many of us are dreaming about the things we want to do when this pandemic is over — like traveling someplace far away. If you have wanderlust, or t...
- Added: Nov 03, 2020
- Length: 54:00
