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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113 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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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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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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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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This week: an investigation into water contamination in Vermont wells near farms reveals a shocking shortage of oversight by the government agency ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 50:00
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What happens when a company leaves a company town. We'll talk to an ethnographer who charts the story of a New Hampshire paper mill that closed, le...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 50:00
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What does a state owe to people serving time in prison? And what does it owe those who should never have been locked up in the first place? We spea...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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Temporary Protected Status could end for some Central American immigrants - we'll look at what that might mean for Hondurans, facing a tricky polit...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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When a local sheriff in northern Vermont pulled over two Mexican farmworkers last August for a traffic violation, he immediately called for the US...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 50:01
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We'll update the flow of migrants leaving the US to go to Quebec, and meet Puerto Ricans deciding whether to stay on the island or come back to New...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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What does a state owe to people serving time in prison? And what does it owe those who should never have been locked up in the first place? We spea...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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On this Thanksgiving week, we're presenting a few favorite segments from our archives. We'll dig into our energy series "The Big Switch" with stori...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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Last week, the voters of Maine took healthcare into their own hands, voting 59 to 41 to expand Medicaid in that state. But governor Paul LePage has...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 49:59
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We go inside an ATV culture clash, ride along with fishermen worried about wind power - and others happy at a rebound for tuna. And, we'll look at ...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 50:00