Podcast #268 – Scene on Radio

Podcast #268 – Scene on Radio

Author: Radio Survivor October 21, 2020 Duration: 58:52

Over the course of four seasons, the Peabody-nominated podcast “Scene on Radio,” a production of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, has earned a reputation for tackling head-on difficult topics around race, gender, justice and equity. But it didn’t start out that way. It started life as a documentary anthology that host and […]

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