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, we revisit our Halloween episode from 2021. We’ll share mountain myths, legends, and ghost stories. Including some that startle.
And, ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we visit Berkeley Springs and sample healing waters from a natural spring so good that even George Washington traveled to check it out.
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- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we learn about an unexpected immigrant to central Appalachia –the armadillo. We also take a ride on the Cass Scenic Railroad and follow ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we visit the home county of host Mason Adams for the Friday Night Jamboree in Floyd County, Virginia. We also check in with volunteers w...
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 53:30
In this episode, we’ll meet a man who makes wooden turkey calls. But these are no ordinary turkey calls. They have intricate paintings on them. No...
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we revisit our conversation, discussing what is Appalachia?
- Added: Sep 07, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we visit the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky, whose cultural archives were damaged by historic flooding. We also learn some of the...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we'll sit down with the inimitable Dolly Parton. She recently visited West Virginia to celebrate her Imagination Library — which sends b...
- Added: Aug 24, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Appalachians love to compete. Whether it’s rec league softball,a turkey calling contest or workplace chili cook-offs.
But there’s more to competiti...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 53:30
Inside Appalachia is 20 years old this month — we celebrate the anniversary by taking a look back with Inside Appalachia founders Giles Snyder and ...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we head to the meadows and woods of West Virginia to catch the buzz on beekeeping.
Also, it’s been five years since Kentucky artist Lacy...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week on Inside Appalachia, we discover there’s a Ukrainian version of the Appalachian hammer dulcimer. We also make a roadside stop to visit a...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we discuss how amid recent hospital closures, how Appalachian women are having to travel farther and farther to give birth.
We’ll also ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, This week, we visit a cemetery in Bluefield, Virginia, and learn how racial segregation followed some people to the grave.
We continue o...
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week’s episode looks back to some stories from 2021, like the challenges that came/come with virtual schooling, plus we'll talk with author Ro...
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we go to the track for look at greyhound racing. Soon, West Virginia will become the only state still home to commercial greyhound race ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we’ll hear about a farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that can grow on one acre what other farms grow on 100 acres.
We’ll also hear about a...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 53:30
This week, we visit with eastern Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah to discusss about her approach to mountain music and talk with Appalachi...
- Added: Jun 14, 2022
- Length: 53:30
In this week's encore presentation, we speak to several children's authors, including Cynthia Rylant, who wrote "When I Was Young In The Mountains....
- Added: Jun 08, 2022
- Length: 53:30
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: Jun 01, 2022
- Length: 53:30
