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What’s keeping Tennesseans from voting? Plus, Jerri Green and a Christa Pike execution update

Why 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 striki

Ask Mayor Freddie O'Connell and three women who knew Christa Pike on death row

Today, 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

Curious Nashville: Trivia Edition

It’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

Our last day in Nashville with Patrick Chappell

We 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 some

Louder than guns: firearm use and ownership

We’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

Chaz Molder’s run, MNPS grading practices, and a Dolly-themed poetry party

Headliners: 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 saf

Music Citizens, Episode 6: The Syncmaster

Behind 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 feeli

Banjo Hall of Famer Ned Luberecki on living his dream, Nashville’s tribe of players and recording a jazz album

Banjo 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 Ma

Indigenous People's Day, celebrating American Indian culture and rewriting painful history

Autumn aligns with several significant days for American Indian communities – Indigenous Peoples’ Day (the second Monday in October), the National Day of Mourning (the fo

Genealogy: Family history is American History

We’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 genealo

Celebrity culture and the lost relics of the Belle Meade Theater

While 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 booksho

Herb Williams on sculpting with crayons and speaking out through art

Local 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,

'Our Town' and Christian nationalism, Rep. John Ray Clemmons and a festival season kickoff

Audio 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 Bloomb

Connecting the dots as data centers come to town

Hyperscale 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 Nas

A roundabout on the Saint Thomas medication mixup, HCA layoffs and Dolly's healthcare legacy

It’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

Dr. Cleve Francis on cardiology & country music, Sepulveda’s pitch for pedestrian safety, and deadly heat

Headliner: As extreme heat settles in, WPLN environmental reporter Caroline Eggers explains how an NPR/Boston University investigation finds Tennessee and other states ha

Reviving the musical dream with restorative fire

How 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 pat

Thyme Care's Robin Shah on work-life balance, improving cancer care, and falling in love with Nashville

The 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 h

In search of the actual Elm Hill

Elm 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 o

Ask the Mayor and mourning the inimitable Dolly Parton

Mayor 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 Part