Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.
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Signup to Generate a PitchScene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are, really, and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.
Recent episodes include "Guest Episode: Question Everything" (23 September 2026, 45 minutes), "S8 E9: The News, Bonus Q&A" (9 September 2026, 56 minutes), and "Guest Episode: Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising" (2 September 2026, 39 minutes).
Scene on Radio publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 141 episodes.
Booking probability for Scene on Radio is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Scene on Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Scene on Radio's contact route on record: verified email.
Scene on Radio is a society podcast with 141 episodes published.
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When it comes to using AI in the creation of "journalism," just how far could things go? We're sharing a fresh episode from the excellent podcast, Question Everything. In Scene on Radio's latest season, we looked at the...
Episode #9
Co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika respond to questions sent in by listeners in response to Scene on Radio Season 8: The News. Questions about AI and propaganda, journalistic bias, America's plummeting press...
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We're sharing an episode from a new series: Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising, from Future Hindsight. In 2011, in the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession stemming from Wall Street wheeling and dealing gone...
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We're sharing an episode from another series we think will be of interest to our listeners -- one that's closely related to our Season 8 series, The News: The Battle for Free Speech . As the United States marks its...
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The American Revolution wasn’t just a fight for liberty. It was also a sprawling conflict with Indigenous nations over who would control North America. To stake its claim, the United States was willing to commit...
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We’re back with Episode 2 of First America, a new show by Indigenous author Rebecca Nagle about how the United States really came to be and how we got to today’s present moment. Rebecca and historian Phil Deloria...
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We're sharing the first of three episodes from a new series we think our listeners will want to hear. Americans have been told our Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But the last entry of the...
Episode #8
This season we've explored how the news media are failing the American people and our democracy. In this concluding episode, we look at solutions -- how to help good journalism survive, and how we might imagine a...
Episode #6
Ever thought about whether America's overwhelmingly corporate, for-profit news system is working as it should? It didn't have to be this way. In the 20th century, reformers fought for a more democratic and more...
Episode #5
The early history of the news in Europe and the U.S. offers surprising lessons about the best traditions of journalism, and about the news we need in our own time of crisis. By John Biewen, with co-host Chenjerai...
Episode #4
Scene on Radio requests and receives an independent analysis of its own journalistic biases. We then return the favor, examining the examiner. The exercise leads to fresh insights into the muddled ways people often...
Episode #3
For generations, many on the political right have claimed that major news media in the U.S. have a pronounced liberal bias. Is it true? And why does it matter? We take a fresh look. By John Biewen with co-host Chenjerai...
Episode #2
Many people know that the journalism industry is struggling financially, especially at the local level. But the disastrous depths of that crisis, and its impact on communities and American democracy, are not as well...
Episode #1
Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we're in a deep information crisis. What's really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about news consumers? Most of us don't trust the media...
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Everybody's mad at the media. And Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have no shared narrative and few shared facts. A well informed citizenry we are not. In Scene on Radio's 8th...
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We're happy to share this episode from award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt, co-host of Scene on Radio's 5th season: The Repair. Amy returns with a new season of Drilled, her podcast about the deception...
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We are sharing a special episode from Master Plan , the award-winning investigative series from our friends at The Lever. Its new season, The Kingmakers , traces the decades-long effort to manufacture an all-powerful...
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Host John Biewen reads an essay from his newsletter, Keeping ScOR. After a visit to his hometown, Mankato, Minnesota -- the subject of the Scene on Radio episode, "Little War on the Prairie" -- John reflects on the...
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A rebroadcast of a Scene on Radio episode, eighty years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom...
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Host John Biewen reads an essay from his newsletter, Keeping ScOR. Reflections on the Trump Administration's attempt to wrangle control of the national story and how it's told. Will this attack on factual history...
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C. Edwin Baker professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication
Founder & CEO of Pod People, PodPeople.com
Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, Foundation for Middle East Peace
host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD, American Association of University Professors
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