Vermont Public

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Vermont Public seeks to create an expanding, open community for all Vermonters, broadening access and opportunity for all voices to participate from every corner of our unique state.

Over the last 50 years, VPR and Vermont PBS’ audiences and supporters helped create two of the strongest statewide public media organizations in America. Together as Vermont Public we will build on that foundation of trusted information, high-quality education, and thoughtful programming to build the future of public media in Vermont.

Vermont Public remains Vermont’s unified public media source for programs from NPR and PBS and for locally produced, award-winning news, video and music content. We also host community events, both virtual and in-person, throughout the broadcast region.

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40 Pieces

Take a journey into the events, characters and concepts that shaped our Western musical tradition.

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6 Pieces

Vermonters share their stories, wisdom and laughter; recorded in the StoryCorps Mobile Recording Booth

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2 Pieces

In this two-part investigative report, Vermont Public Radio examines the circumstances surrounding the suspension of an African-American senior on allegations he intruded into other student rooms at Middlebury College. The senior sued the college to get his diploma and said that race was involved in his suspension. A Vermont court later ruled in favor of the college.


Latest Pieces

Caption: But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids, Credit: VPR
On But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids, we take questions from kid listeners all over the world and find interesting people to help answer them. We...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 55:08
Caption: The Cape Cod National Seashore represents a new type of partnership between the National Park Service and communities to preserve areas of land across the country., Credit: NPS
These parks are all large areas of public land managed by the National Park Service. But there are few such opportunities anymore; all the land is ...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: As sea levels rise, we may have to begin deciding which monuments and parks to save, and which to document and let go., Credit: NPS
Birthdays are a time to celebrate, but an opportunity to look forward as well. There are many challenges the national parks must face in the 21st ...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Parks such as Washita Battlefield National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site have been established and interpreted to tell the difficult stories of atrocities against indigenous people. , Credit: NPS Archives
Though the national parks have famously been called “America’s best idea”, this sentiment is not universally accepted. Native Americans were dispos...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bison along Rose Creek in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park. Often the boundaries of parks are defined by politics more than ecological realities., Credit:  Neal Herbert / NPS
Visitors to our national parks may notice that the boundaries of many parks are marked by straight lines. These lines are political boundaries that...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alaska's Gates of the Artic Wilderness encompasses more than 7 million acres — more than three times the size of Yellowstone National Park., Credit:  Sean Tevebaugh / NPS
The 1964 Wilderness Act was a milestone in American environmental history. After hundreds of years of clearing away the wilderness, the official po...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: National park boundaries that don’t comport with ecological realities make it challenging to protect animals that range outside the parks. It's just one of the challenges facing the National Park Service., Credit:  Tim Rains / NPS
The National Park Service finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired, but increasingly uneasy about its ability to carry ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Deep Ravine Trail at Little Big Horn National Monument in Montana., Credit:  Brandon Blackburn / NPS
National parks have famously been called “America’s best idea." This expression is commonly interpreted as meaning preservation of America’s iconic...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: ncreasingly, Distance learning centers like this one at the Grand Canyon National Park are giving students around the country a window into the national parks., Credit:  Mike Buchheit / Grand Canyon Association
American education is embracing "high-impact” practices such as engagement with real places and problems, experiential and service learning, intera...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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The numbers for 2015 are in and they’re impressive; there were 305 million visits to the national parks last year. And while it’s wonderful that so...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2