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Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 27:06
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 27:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 26:38
Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:18
Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 26:48
Caption: Poet Rita Dove, Credit: Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:10
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How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home? How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 37:21
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When we face mental health struggles, who will help us find our way out? In this episode honoring Mental Health Awareness month, the women at She...

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Page Wilson
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 27:53
Caption: Page Wilson
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 25:55
Caption: Brooke Ullman, author of Bellevue Porchella., Credit: Charles McGuigan
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: Rose Simmons
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
Caption: Carlton Johnson
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 12:26
Caption: Tracey Wingold,LCSW
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 08:01
Caption: Nativities at Church of the Redeemer., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Every year, at the Church of the Redeemer in Mechanicsville, Virginia, people exhibit exhibit hundred of Nativities from all over the world. And ea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: Beth and Chris Houlihan
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
Caption: Virginia State Penitentiary
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:05
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11