Mar 23 2020
A 333% increase in alcohol-related deaths in Kentucky over the last two decades with dramatic increases among women and the middle-aged. | Efforts are underway in Eastern Kentucky to reduce Kentucky's high rate of type 2 diabetes . | In…
Mar 15 2020
AG impacts: COVID-19, trade wars, THC in hemp. A conversation with state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles | NEW: series on Mental Health Issues in Eastern Kentucky and the delivery of care to the rural and remote | Does Kentucky's famous…
Mar 8 2020
Segment One:
Cross-border collaboration in Eastern Kentucky | Reclaiming forests destroyed by surface mining and mountaintop removal | Appalachian thinkers and doers to gather in Lexington - Listen
Segment Two:
Singling out that special teacher | Fashion show focuses on…
Mar 2 2020
Segment One:
Eastern Kentucky’s cancer rate is highest in the nation. Why? | Markey Cancer Center turns to young Appalachians to help battle the disease in their communities and homes. Listen
Segment Two:
What’s happening in chain pharmacies and the…
Feb 23 2020
Segment One
Oscar-nominated, Emmy winning Appalachian documentary-maker Elaine McMillion Sheldon is coming to EKU | A summit on all things farm-to-table at UK | LISTEN
Segment Two
The latest in our series on the 19th amendment: what exactly was a…
Feb 2 2020
As superbugs become resistant, antibiotic companies drop out
The 2020 Census: What You Need to Know. Plus: they're hiring.
The midwives of Depression-era Appalachian Kentucky
UK Filmmaker's Documentary Airs on PBS
Lexington guitarist and singer/songwriter Jim Gleason
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Jan 26 2020
Conversations with Eastern Kentucky University Interim President David McFaddin and University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto. And, making a "big bold ask" of a budget-strapped state legislature, Prichard Committee executive director, Brigitte Blom Ramsey.
Segment One: Eastern Kentucky University Interim…
Jan 19 2020
Jan. 7, 1920: Kentucky Gov. Edwin Morrow signs the 19th Amendment establishing the right of women to vote. (Courtesy, Kentucky Historical Society)
Part One: One-on-one interviews with Gov, Andy Beshear and Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton. LISTEN
Part Two…
Jan 12 2020
January 9, 2020
Drugs, incarceration and the Kentucky business community: Kentucky Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ashli Watts is making it a priority to de-felonize drug possession and focus on recovery. And, Kentucky Health News reporter Melissa Patrick on…
Jan 5 2020
January 2, 2020
Encouragement! Listen to Robert Gipe, Sky & Geoff Marietta, and Robin Mason describe their efforts to make entrepreneurial enterprises become realities in the downtowns of Eastern Kentucky communities. Also: cultivating the school principal's CEO chops. An interview…
Dec 30 2019
With narration by Tom Martin, the hour is filled with samplings of voices among the hundreds throughout the central Appalachian region interviewed and photographed by Malcolm Wilson. From Brittany Boggs of Cumberland, Kentucky (above) to Buck Wade of Keystone, West…
Dec 18 2019
DECEMBER 19 EDITION - FULL LENGTH
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SEGMENTS
ONE: Appalshop at 50: a conversation with an "original," filmmaker Herb E. Smith, and Willa Johnson, director of the Appalachian Media Institute. LISTEN
TWO: Composer , pianist and arranger Rachel Grimes and…