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Scene on Radio

Scene on Radio

By: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

The show is distributed by PRX.

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Episodes
  • Sports, the Great Uniter?

    Sports, the Great Uniter?
    Sep 1 2015

    Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen explores the question in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

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    13 mins
  • Friends and Basketball

    Friends and Basketball
    Sep 23 2015

    More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen hangs with a girls’ high school basketball team to test the idea. Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

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    26 mins
  • The (High School) Mascot Wars

    The (High School) Mascot Wars
    Oct 7 2015

    Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. (Produced in 2015. Listen for the update at the end.)

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    26 mins
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I like that it offers a path out of racism. if it was constructed then it can be deconstructed. America's greatness over Europe is proof.

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The topics covered in this podcast are essential. I know they have been for me. I am in an MSW program at ASU and we had several episodes assigned to us. I listened to the assigned episodes and went back to listen to them all.

Eye opening

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it's is difficult sometimes to find documentaries from the USA that don't seem to see the rest of the world as if it were a mirror , as bad copy or incomplete copy of itself and also is difficult to find documentaries from the USA that don't see the USA as an exceptional great nation but a nation with complicated bloody history. The last season (season 4) sees the USA democracy with a great critical eye putting on the table important critical perspectives about this nation's history.

I recommend the seasons 2 and 3 as well, these seasons too bring great critical insights about masculinity and witheness in the USA.

This documentaries are great starting points on this topics.

Great daring documentaries

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This podcast (seasons 2 -4) is a must listen for every American. It is truly eye opening. So much of our history is glossed over or barely discussed, and the podcast provides a lot of much needed honesty about events in US history regarding slavery and America's beginnings (seasons 2 and 4). The information is well researched and so interesting, and is quite different than the history that was taught in school.
Season 1 is a great collection of stories, and season 3 is a much needed dive into men and gender

A Must Listen for every American

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