WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Caption: PRX default StationAccount image

WCAI 90.1 and WNAN 91.1, the Cape and Islands NPR stations, are listener-supported public radio stations serving Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and the south coast. Founded by local residents, the stations are a service of WGBH Radio. We strive to celebrate the uniqueness of the communities that we serve while discussing common issues.

Series

Caption: PRX default Series image
 
0 Pieces

Caption: PRX default Series image
Healthy Living 
0 Pieces

Healthy Living is a weekly commentary that brings listeners the latest in health news and biomedical research.

Series image
Living Lab on The Point 
24 Pieces

Living Lab is intelligent conversation at the intersection of science and culture. Host Dr. Heather Goldstone is keenly interested in the connections between science, art, religion, and culture. Living Lab explores those themes with scientists, authors, artists, educators, and, of course, listeners.

Caption: PRX default Series image
Science at Work 
0 Pieces

Science at Work brings listeners into the laboratories and minds of the Woods Hole scientific community. The series explores the business of basic research - how and why scientists pose questions about the world, and how they go about answering them.

Series image
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands 
20 Pieces

duPont-Columbia award winning series on poverty amidst prosperity

Latest Pieces

Did Neanderthals Make Music?
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: Jelle Atema's collection of bone flutes., Credit: Jenny Junker
Whether or not Neanderthals made and played musical instruments is still up for debate. But if they did, it may have sounded like this.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 48:32
Alan Lightman's Accidental Universe
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: The Andromeda galaxy is our largest galactic neighbor, measuring 260,000 light-years across., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What is the nature of our universe? Accidental, gargantuan, temporary, lawful, and spiritual are just a handful of the possibilities.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 48:13
Deep Sea Search and Recovery a Challenge Under Best of Circumstances
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Caption: An engine from Air France flight 447, as photographed on the sea floor. , Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA)
The crash of Air France flight 447 was a best-case scenario for a deep sea search. The missing Malaysian Airlines flight is anything but.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 49:20
The Eco-History of Guano
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: The depletion of Peru's guano islands lay at the heart of the War of the Pacific. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the he...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
Louis Agassiz's Life and Legacy
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Piece image
In the late 1800s, Louis Agassiz founded the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, a...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
A Real-Life Message-in-a-Bottle Story
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Piece image
In the 1950s and 60s, oceanographer Dean Bumpus filled hundreds of thousands of bottles with pleas for help and threw them into the ocean. Bumpus d...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
Archaeology of Ancient Culture
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: Helen & Klytaimestra, Credit: Glynnis Fawkes
Did ancient women view virgin sacrifices as belittling or empowering? What did ancient music sound like? An emerging field of archaeology attempts ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 49:31
The Legacy of Irene and Sandy
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Vermont's Irene Recovery Officer, now Deputy Secretary of Transportation, reflects on lessons learned from ...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:56
Hydroid Success Built on Public-Private Collaboration
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tech spin-offs may be nothing new in Boston or Silicon Valley, but they are something of a novelty on Cape Cod. Hydroid is a small company that beg...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
Tunneling a Cable to Martha's Vineyard
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Piece image
Modern-day life on an island is made possible by undersea cables carrying electricity, telephone, and broad-band communications. Residents of Cape ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:33

Purchased Pieces

see all

Playlists

see more

Staff of WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

User image
Jay Allison (Admin)
Independent Producer
User image
Gary Mott (Admin)
Producer
User image
Samantha Broun (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Amy Vince (Admin)
Pledge Producer
Caption: PRX default User image
Hyo Choon Lee (Admin)
Director of Administration
User image
Viki Merrick (Admin)
Independent Producer
User image
Dan Tritle (Admin)
Morning Edition Host
User image
Heather Goldstone (Admin)
Science Editor
Caption: PRX default User image
Sean Corcoran (Admin)
Senior Reporter
Caption: PRX default User image
Steve Junker (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Carolyn Hyman (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Elsa Partan (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Miles Smith (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
mark manuelian (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Dan Tritle (Admin)