5 Best Nashville Public Radio Podcasts

A list of the most popular Nashville Public Radio podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.

5 Best Nashville Public Radio Podcasts

  • 1. The Promise

    A Peabody Award-winning series from Nashville Public Radio about inequality and the people trying to rise above it, with host and reporter Meribah Knight. In Season 1 of The Promise, we told the story of Nashville's largest public housing complex, sm...Show More

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    Part 1: A Change is Gonna Come

    23:36 | Jan 24th, 2018

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    At 61 years old, Vernell McHenry is like the grandmother of her corner of James Cayce. Where she’s lived for more than 17 years, greeting the neighborhood from a metal folding beach chair on her stoop...Show More

  • 2. Neighbors

    A show about what connects with Jakob Lewis. Neighbors is a production of Great Feeling Studios www.greatfeelingstudios.com Join “The Neighborhood” on Patreon.

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    The Garden

    29:17 | Oct 7th, 2021

    Everyone had their own experience last year—this was mine. We like many planted a garden. It was brought about by stillness and helped us frame a year of both creativity and joy as well as sadness and...Show More

  • 3. Movers & Thinkers

    Movers and Thinkers is all about why people do what they do. We take you into the minds of some of the most interesting people in Nashville and discuss their motivations, passions and challenges. Each episode is produced from a conversation with Nash...Show More

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    Stranger Than Fiction

    27:13 | Nov 16th, 2020

    Best-selling author Ruta Sepetys spends months or years researching for her novels, interviewing dozens of people in the process. Because she's doesn’t write about fictional dystopian worlds — she wri...Show More

  • 4. Versify

    Versify is part storytelling and part poetry. It begins by sending our team of poets out into neighborhoods and to community events, where we invite people to share a story from their life. The person they are sharing it to — the person listening — i...Show More

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    Freedom Summer: Violence Was In Me Then

    48:18 | Sep 21st, 2020

    For Dr. Freddrick Leonard, joining the Nashville Student Movement in the Fall of 1960 meant learning to suppress his instincts. As a high schooler in Chattanooga, he sat in at lunch counters with othe...Show More

  • 5. Curious Nashville

    In Curious Nashville from Nashville Public radio, we answer your questions about the city and region. Listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.

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    How Black Political Power Changed In Nashville After Government Consolidation

    14:27 | Oct 26th, 2020

    A simple question about some of Nashville’s suburban pockets opens a deeper review of how the Metro government formed in the 1950s and 60s. WPLN News reporter Ambriehl Crutchfield finds that the combi...Show More

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