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Scene on Radio

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. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2),...

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Listen to Scene on Radio, a Society & Culture podcast by Scene on Radio. Stream 132 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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S8 E3: About that Liberal Media

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...

52:33Jun 3, 2026

S8 E2: When the News Dies

Many people know that the journalism industry is struggling financially, especially at the local level. But the disastrous depths of that cr...

48:21May 27, 2026

S8 E1: The Myth of the Echo Chamber

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...

40:26May 27, 2026

Introducing Scene on Radio: The News

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 s...

02:05May 20, 2026

Guest Episode: Drilled: Carbon Cowboys

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....

28:54May 13, 2026

Guest Episode: Master Plan: The Kingmakers

We are sharing a special episode from Master Plan , the award-winning investigative series from our friends at The Lever. Its new season, Th...

37:56May 6, 2026

Guest Episode: More Muslim

We're sharing this guest episode from the podcast More Muslim. Reporter Aina Khan reports on the oldest Muslim community in Cape Town, South...

44:11Apr 30, 2026

Voices of Hiroshima

A rebroadcast of a Scene on Radio episode, eighty years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Th...

33:37Aug 6, 2025

The New Old Racism: Keeping ScOR#4

Host John Biewen teases Season 8 and reads an installment from his new newsletter, Keeping ScOR. Eight years after our "Seeing White" series...

18:27Mar 18, 2025

Bonus: Michael Kliën and the Body Politic

Michael Kliën wants to help bring about profound change in the world, but not through the usual means. An Austrian-born Dance professor at D...

34:10Jan 22, 2025

S7 E13: CAPITALISM Bonus, Live at Motorco

With our Capitalism season and the election behind us, now what? Can we find hope and a way forward? In a live show taped December 5, 2024,...

01:11:59Dec 11, 2024

Post-election '24 All-Star Special

Host John Biewen is joined by Celeste Headlee, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ellen McGirt, and Amy Westervelt, co-hosts of Scene on Radio's full-leng...

01:20:23Nov 21, 2024

S7 E12: Reimagined Economies

In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structures of capitalism on their heads – or, at least, si...

01:03:12Sep 18, 2024

S7 E11: Better Capitalism?

In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we explore reforms aimed at making the current economic system m...

50:53Sep 4, 2024

S7 E10: The Extracted

A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early capitalism – Western countries getting...

55:09Aug 21, 2024

S7 E9: At the Tipping Point

In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen to human civilization if people kept pursuing endle...

01:03:28Aug 14, 2024

S7 E8: The People's Pushback

S7 E8: The People’s Pushback Over several decades, a growing number of people in the United States and elsewhere – especially younger people...

45:09Aug 7, 2024

S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0

S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0 After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political stripe agree that the economy is “rigged” in favor...

58:19Jul 31, 2024

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