Connecticut Public (WNPR)

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Connecticut Public is a member station of national public media services PBS and NPR, and parent company for three television stations: Connecticut Public Television (CPTV); CPTV Spirit; and PBS Kids 24/7; and Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR). We serve one million people each month through our television, radio and digital platforms. WNPR serves Connecticut, Rhode Island, Long Island (NY) and parts of Massachusetts with news, talk, information and entertainment programming.  Connecticut Public produces six local talk shows that are also available as podcasts; Where We LiveThe Colin McEnroe Show, Audacious with Chion Wolf, Disrupted, The Wheelhouse and Seasoned. They also have two limited series podcasts in produciton for release in 2024. 

Series

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Three features about issues of poverty following Hurricane Katrina

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115 Pieces

Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things.

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3 Pieces

A radio show produced and hosted by students from the Journalism and Media Academy Magnet School, CPBN Learning Lab. Hartford, CT.

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10 Pieces

A collection of audio essays from writers, listeners and station guests.

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Disruptions are all around us. Some spark joy and possibility. Others move us to take action and re-evaluate our world. Every week on Disrupted, host and political scientist Khalilah Brown-Dean unpacks how big and small disruptions are shaping our lives.

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8 Pieces

Media Commentary

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242 Pieces

NEXT is a weekly, hour-long radio show and podcast exploring the rapid changes in New England, one of the oldest parts of the nation. This feed is for stations that subscribe to the weekly show.

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Tackling subjects like Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor — you get the idea. Plus, on Fridays, we convene an informal roundtable about the week in culture.

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139 Pieces

The Needle Drop is your weekly fix of rock, pop, electronic, and experimental music of the independent persuasion.


Latest Pieces

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As parts of New England reopen, states are working to protect themselves from visitors. This week on NEXT, New Hampshire is wary of beachgoers from...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
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This week on NEXT, New England states are still competing for COVID-19 testing supplies. But researchers at Yale University are studying new saliva...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
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For a hands-on subject like science, remote learning is particularly tricky. This week on NEXT, how science teachers and students are adapting and ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
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Public health experts say it will take widespread testing to reopen the economy. This week on NEXT, we look at where testing capacity lags in New E...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
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Health care workers are facing moral dilemmas and complicated questions during the pandemic. This week on NEXT, we hear from hospital workers in Ne...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
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This week on NEXT: Loss of smell has emerged as a possible symptom of COVID-19. We delve into cases in Rhode Island and how the state is screening ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
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New England states are asking visitors to self-isolate for 14 days to slow the spread of coronavirus. This week on NEXT, we look at Rhode Island’s ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
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Before the coronavirus outbreak, a wife visited her husband nearly every day at the nursing home. This week on NEXT, how visitor limitations are se...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
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This week on NEXT, elementary school teachers scramble to put together remote learning for students as schools close amid the coronavirus pandemic....

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
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As the coronavirus spreads, we look at how New Englanders are preparing. And after the only black woman in Vermont’s House of Representatives was t...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
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