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This Is Nashville is a live one-hour daily show driven by community, for community. This flagship program of WPLN News will become your one-stop-shop for news in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, as we continue to show up each day.
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- Nashville's rising underground show scene · 50 minWe’re a city of countless stages. But makeshift venues and DIY concerts are on the rise. Blame the cost of living or blame the cut venue owners take from artists, but house…
- Re-Air: A new generation of Tennessee veterans · 50 minOn today’s show, we honor those who’ve served their country by welcoming three combat veterans from Middle Tennessee, all from the decade after 9/11. A cook. An HR specialist…
- Pipelines and data centers, Victoria Broderick's first interview, and an OZ preview · 50 minSeemingly out of the blue, Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District flipped to the Democrats. This week, Victoria Broderick, heads to Washington, D.C. for freshman orientation…
- Luthier Amanda Ewing on the art and apprenticeship of violin making · 50 minNashville native Amanda Ewing was between jobs when she decided to pick up the violin again. Then, with time on her hands, she thought it would be fun to have a hand in making…
- Fluke or a bluer future? A roundabout on the redness of Tennessee · 50 minThe midterm election is behind us. Are the results in Tennessee a fluke or does the state have a political future that might look a little less red? Now that we’ve had a day to…
- Midterm results wrap, cutting the Metro Council, and 'Staking Our Claim' · 50 minHeadliners: Connie Casha, newly-elected Democratic state representative from Rutherford County, and Congressman-elect Charlie Hatcher join us to talk about last night's results…
- Trail running in the Tennessee hills · 50 minA growing number of us are running through the woods. Music City plays host to the U.S. Trail Running Conference this week, so we’re seeing how this growth trend is working in…
- Pre-election pep talk with Tre Hargett, Chloe Akers, Ming Wang and John Spragens · 50 minOn the eve of Election Day, we spend a moment looking at political polarization and the nonpartisan advocates trying to draw us back to the center. We’re joined by attorney Chloe…
- From the Bell Witch to El Día de los Muertos: Tennessee’s Impressive Collection of Haunts · 50 minWe do some day-tripping from Nashville today to meet our Tennessee ghosts, hear their stories and learn some history along the way. We spend some time at Brushy Mountain, drop…
- Linus Hall on selling Yazoo, plus a gubernatorial forum recap and off Broadway on West End · 50 minHeadliner: Three of the leading candidates for Tennessee governor, minus frontrunner Marsha Blackburn, appear in their final forum at MTSU, hosted by the Tennessee Press…
- Curious Nashville: What’s the most haunted place in Nashville? · 50 minIt’s a Curious Nashville investigation...with a twist. We recently had an anonymous listener ask: "What is the most haunted place in Nashville?" So, instead of scoff, we came up…
- Coach Nolan Smith on his winning revival at TSU · 50 minNolan Smith still has a vivid memory of heaving a basketball into the Atlantic Ocean from the deck of a cruise ship. It was the loss-induced tantrum of a highly competitive…
- Re-Air: Getting around on our greenways · 50 minThere was a time not so long ago that neighborhoods were fighting against greenways – the tucked-away alleys that connect our communities through the woods and along our…
- Signal Species: Calls from the wild · 50 minIt’s always wise to pay close attention to our wild critters. The squirrels are gathering up nuts for the winter, the birds are flying south, the mosquitoes are mostly gone. But…
- Harlan County USA: Fifty years later · 50 minThis month marks 50 years since the premiere of "Harlan County USA." The Academy Award-winning documentary film shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community and…
- Buddy Miller on collaboration, working on "Nashville," and his first solo album in 15 years · 50 minIf you bring up the name Buddy Miller in Nashville’s music circles, you’re likely to get a story about how he’s wonderful to work with — humble, talented, and a great…
- Rapid-fire interviews with Nashville's part-time authors · 50 minHappy Southern Festival of Books week! To celebrate, we’ve invited nine local authors to join us to talk about their work. History, memoirs, YA, fantasy, cooking and more, local…
- Ain't no party like a public radio ballot party · 50 minWho says politics can't be fun? Today, independent candidate for governor, Lauren Pinkston, joins us for a one-on-one interview. And a couple of Nashville's political reporters…
- The fate of the family business amid a corporate boom · 50 minA lot of family businesses make it to the second generation. Very few make it to the third. So a fifth generation is something special. We’re looking at our multi-generational…
- Jim Emison on his roots in Haywood County and Elbert Williams, the NAACP’s first voting rights martyr · 50 minOn June 20, 1940 in Brownsville, TN, Elbert Williams was overheard vowing to register Black voters. Someone reported him to the local police. That night, police seized him from…
- A community conversation on the death penalty and the botched execution of Christa Pike · 50 minOne week ago, Tennessee tried to carry out the execution of Christa Pike. The execution did not go as planned. Pike survived the lethal injection, making her case an…
- Hard times in a hot town — Leonard Slatkin, Manuel Delgado, and missing immigrant labor · 50 minHeadliner: Journalist JP Olsen on his Nashville Scene cover story about missing immigrant labor. Newsmaker: Luthier Manuel Delgado on new incentives approved by the Metro…
- Waymo and the acceleration of autonomous vehicles · 50 minThe sightings are becoming more common — a Waymo out in the wild. And more are on the way. Waymo and Lyft announced a joint partnership with rideshare liaison Flexdrive at an…
- Anne-Marie Zanzal on coming out in middle age and helping others find their way · 50 minPart coach. Part minister. Part social strategist. Anne-Marie Zanzel is all of those things because it’s what she needed when she came out in middle age. Before the life…
- What’s keeping Tennesseans from voting? Plus, Jerri Green and a Christa Pike execution update · 39 minWhy don’t Tennesseans vote at the same rates as people in other states? The Center for Politics breaks turnout down by congressional district, and the map tells a striking…
- Ask Mayor Freddie O'Connell and three women who knew Christa Pike on death row · 40 minToday, Mayor Freddie O’Connell joins us in the studio to take our questions—and yours. We’ll ask him about the Nashville Symphony’s financial struggles and the state law that…
- Curious Nashville: Trivia Edition · 39 minIt’s time for Curious Nashville. Typically, the Curious team assigns reporters to answer your questions. Today, though, we’re taking everything we’ve learned in the past decade…
- Our last day in Nashville with Patrick Chappell · 36 minWe could ask you what you love about Middle Tennessee, and you'd probably have an answer of some kind. But it might lack specificity. If you really want to know what someone…
- Louder than guns: firearm use and ownership · 50 minWe’re talking about one of the most divisive issues of our time: the rules around firearm use and ownership. Following the tragedy at the Covenant School in Green Hills three…
- Chaz Molder’s run, MNPS grading practices, and a Dolly-themed poetry party · 50 minHeadliners: WPLN education reporter Camellia Burris on MNPS grading practices and ProPublica’s Aliyya Swaby with an update on a joint investigation with WPLN into the safety of…
- Music Citizens, Episode 6: The Syncmaster · 50 minBehind every Instagram ad, commercial, or TV trailer you see, there is a fierce battle over what song gets to play in the background. This song what gives the ad a feeling…
- Banjo Hall of Famer Ned Luberecki on living his dream, Nashville’s tribe of players and recording a jazz album · 50 minBanjo Hall of Famer Ned Luberecki joins us in the studio with a banjo on his knee. We ask Ned about the banjo’s role in modern music, his long road from growing up in Maryland…
- Indigenous People's Day, celebrating American Indian culture and rewriting painful history · 50 minAutumn aligns with several significant days for American Indian communities – Indigenous Peoples’ Day (the second Monday in October), the National Day of Mourning (the fourth…
- Genealogy: Family history is American History · 50 minWe’re searching for headstones and sifting through dusty documents in our attics. It’s a show about investigating our family histories. We can all become amateur genealogists as…
- Celebrity culture and the lost relics of the Belle Meade Theater · 50 minWhile the neon marquee of the shuttered Belle Meade Theater lives on, the lobby of the once-ornate theater now lies empty. The cinema closed in 1991, and became a bookshop, then…
- Herb Williams on sculpting with crayons and speaking out through art · 50 minLocal artist Herb Williams spent years struggling to break into the world of visual art. Painting didn’t really work out. Neither did sculpting. After years of doldrums, he did…
- 'Our Town' and Christian nationalism, Rep. John Ray Clemmons and a festival season kickoff · 44 minAudio and video for this episode will be added after the live broadcast at noon. Headliner: Investigative reporter Meribah Knight and her new podcast series with Bloomberg, "Our…
- Connecting the dots as data centers come to town · 50 minHyperscale data centers are being scrutinized like never before. Even mid-size facilities are receiving fierce pushback, as seen with the data center planned near the Nashville…
- A roundabout on the Saint Thomas medication mixup, HCA layoffs and Dolly's healthcare legacy · 50 minIt’s our weekly roundabout when we take your calls and give you a chance to join the discussion about the news. Today, it’s all healthcare. We're starting with the story that…
- Dr. Cleve Francis on cardiology & country music, Sepulveda’s pitch for pedestrian safety, and deadly heat · 45 minHeadliner: As extreme heat settles in, WPLN environmental reporter Caroline Eggers explains how an NPR/Boston University investigation finds Tennessee and other states have…
- Reviving the musical dream with restorative fire · 50 minHow many stories are there in this town where a star rises before everything falls apart? Where the musical dream leads down an exciting path...and then that original path…
- Thyme Care's Robin Shah on work-life balance, improving cancer care, and falling in love with Nashville · 50 minThe business of healthcare is our biggest business. And some of the fastest-growing startups who've made Nashville their home are focused on finding efficiencies in the…
- In search of the actual Elm Hill · 50 minElm Hill Pike may be an industrial artery now, but it was once a main thoroughfare with a rich history. The road has connections to the very earliest white settlers and one of…
- Ask the Mayor and mourning the inimitable Dolly Parton · 50 minMayor Freddie O’Connell joins us today to take your questions and comments. And he joins us on a somber day. As the show was ending yesterday, we learned that Dolly Parton…
- Hemp’s big hold up, Tre Hargett’s college concerns, and Nashville’s fastest filmmakers · 45 minHeadliner: A THC ban and a new tax on Tennessee hemp took effect this year. The result is a tax that's collecting next to nothing in revenue. We bring you what there's to know…
- Margo Price on 'Days of Unrest' · 50 minNashville artists are typically trying not to let their personal politics get them in trouble with their fans and the power brokers of the music business. Then there are a few…
- The Beautiful Game: fun, competition, and high stakes in Nashville's soccer eco-system · 50 minSoccer was already on the ascent in the U.S. Then came the North American World Cup. It’s not just you who tuned in for more soccer than ever before. The U.S. match against…
- Getting around on our greenways · 50 minThere was a time not so long ago that neighborhoods were fighting against greenways – the tucked-away alleys that connect our communities through the woods and along our…
- Mr. Rogers on stage, Jayla Thomas on the GOP, and private juvenile prisons under investigation · 45 minThe headliner: WPLN’s senior criminal justice reporter Paige Pfleger on her latest investigation with ProPublica about abuse in Tennessee’s privately-run juvenile prisons. The…
- Jewish Jesus scholar Amy-Jill Levine and her lifelong quest to end antisemitism · 50 minWhen the Catholic Biblical Association reached out this year to see if Amy-Jill Levine would be interested in serving as its president, she wrote someone else on the nominating…
