This Is Nashville

From the Bell Witch to El Día de los Muertos: Tennessee’s Impressive Collection of Haunts

We 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

Linus Hall on selling Yazoo, plus a gubernatorial forum recap and off Broadway on West End

Headliner: 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?

It’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

Coach Nolan Smith on his winning revival at TSU

Nolan 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 competiti

Re-Air: Getting around on our greenways

There 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

It’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 g

Harlan County USA: Fifty years later

This 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 communi

Buddy Miller on collaboration, working on "Nashville," and his first solo album in 15 years

If 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 col

Rapid-fire interviews with Nashville's part-time authors

Happy 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 mor

Ain't no party like a public radio ballot party

Who 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 re

The fate of the family business amid a corporate boom

A 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-genera

Jim Emison on his roots in Haywood County and Elbert Williams, the NAACP’s first voting rights martyr

On 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 hi

A community conversation on the death penalty and the botched execution of Christa Pike

One 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 unpr

Hard times in a hot town — Leonard Slatkin, Manuel Delgado, and missing immigrant labor

Headliner: Journalist JP Olsen on his Nashville Scene cover story about missing immigrant labor. Newsmaker: Luthier Manuel Delgado on new incentives approved by the Metr

Waymo and the acceleration of autonomous vehicles

The 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

Anne-Marie Zanzal on coming out in middle age and helping others find their way

Part 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

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