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WWNO is an affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR) that presents a 24 hour daily schedule of classical music, NPR News, award-winning  local journalism, independent programming, and public radio favorites, like "Hidden Brain" and "This American Life."

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A daily a daily report on the Louisiana legislative session.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Mar 21, 2019
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This series contains all of the features produced by WWNO's Coastal Desk, reporter Jesse Hardman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson. This team is devoted to covering news and issues related to Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Aug 04, 2014
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As the 10th hurricane season begins since the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, 89.9 WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio is launching a new weekly podcast and radio feature: Katrina: The Debris, stories about what was left behind by the storm and the floods that followed.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Jun 01, 2015
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"Katrina: The Debris" is a podcast about what was left behind by the New Orleans floods of 2005. Each week New Orleans Public Radio picks up a story, an issue, a thread - debris. Mondays through August 31, we use archived sound, new interviews and guest stars like Wendell Pierce and David Byrne to explore disaster and renewal.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Jun 01, 2015
Caption: Basin Street, New Orleans
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‘Storyville’ is a partnership between WWNO and the University of New Orleans. Students in the creative writing workshop at UNO record their own original works about the Crescent City.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Sep 25, 2013
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TriPod: New Orleans at 300 is WWNO’s innovative radio history of New Orleans, released in weekly segments as our city approaches its Tricentennial in 2018. Each TriPod segment is its own micro-documentary, devoted to a single story or subject from New Orleans’ rich history. The series explores lost and neglected stories, delves deeper into the familiar, and questions what we think we know about the city’s history.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Feb 15, 2016
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In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, part of the central wetlands system that ran from the Lower 9th Ward all the way to Lake Borgne. But destructive forces — from levee and canal construction to invasive species — turned this freshwater swamp into a saltwater marsh, killing all the cypress trees in the process. You see their dead trunks like scarecrows in the water, and don’t see much else. Five people walked out to the Bayou Bienvenue platform, a wooden walkway at Florida and Caffin Avenues, to overlook the land as it is now and consider these questions.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Jun 03, 2014
Caption: The SpeakEasy Venue, Chickie Wah Wah on Canal Street in New Orleans.
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WWNO's SpeakEasy is a monthly event that features different guests who discuss topics of interest to the region in a casual style.

  • From: WWNO
  • Updated: Apr 21, 2014

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Caption: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit:  The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
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Caption: A street scene in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti., Credit:  Wynne Muscatine Graham
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with an hour-long special that explores two places linked in history. called “Haiti and New Orleans: Is the Feel...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Bohn Motor Company Building , Broad Avenue, Broadmoor, New Orleans, Louisiana. On the National Register of Historic Places., Credit:  Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons
This is another edition of TriPod Xtras. We’ve cut together some highlights from a really interesting panel we went to a little while back, put on ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:31
Caption:  Rashauna Johnson (left) and TriPod host Laine Kaplan-Levenson discuss Johnson's award winning book "Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions" at the 2017 Organization of American Historians Conference.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 20:17
Caption: Andre Paultre wears a carnival mask in Jacmel, Haiti., Credit:  Wynne Muscatine Graham / WWNO
WWNO’s original history podcast TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns next week. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson traveled to Haiti this past summer and wil...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:44
Caption: Diorama of Lunch Counter Sit-Down Protests - National Civil Rights Museum - Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. , Credit:  Adam Jones, Ph.D. / wikimedia commons
In this edition of TriPod Xtras, Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with Rafat Ali, founder and CEO of Skift, a media company that looks at travel trends...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 10:19
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Caption: Boy holding an Equal Pay for Equal Work sign, ERA March and Jazz Funeral, 1982, Credit:  Pat Denton Collection, Newcomb Archives Tulane.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part II of its series on the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
Caption: Pat Denton speaking at the ERA March and Jazz Funeral, New Orleans, 1982. , Credit:  Pat Denton Collection / Newcomb Archives, Tulane University
This is the first in a two-part series on the local Second-wave feminist movement and the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:14
Caption: Laine Kaplan-Levenson in Jacmel, Haiti. , Credit:  Andre Paultre
In this edition of TriPod Xtras, host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sits down with WWNO’s Janae Pierre to talk about a recent trip to Haiti, the end of Tri...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 10:56
Caption: Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868–1871, Credit:  Mathew Brady Studio / National Archive
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:20