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Each week, WAMU 88.5's Metro Connection reaches across D.C., Maryland and Virginia to gather the sounds and stories that capture the current events, culture and personalities driving the Was...
We'll hear the tumultuous and almost otherworldly tale of the effort to create a memorial to Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...
This Thanksgiving week, we're digging into the Metro Connection archives, and presenting some of our favorite stories about food, famil...
We'll meet a lifelong Montgomery County resident who grew up in segregated and unequal county schools, and went on to become a top-notc...
We'll find out why a tiny sliver of land honoring a pop star-turned politico is getting a new lease on life. We'll go inside Fresh...
We'll visit a Capitol Hill rowhouse that once was home to an influential lesbian separatist collective, The Furies. And we'll meet...
We'll hear from Willard Scott, who co-hosted the wildly popular show, "The Joy Boys," with the late Ed Walker. We'll visit an unus...
This week we're bringing you a compilation of some of our best stories from 2015, plus a story about The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker,...
We'll hear why the former head of DDOT thinks Metro should be run like a bike-sharing system, and we'll ask whether anti-Metro ang...
We go poking around Metro stations with a botanist, and find out why the Kennedy Center is teaming up with the U.S. Botanic Garden. We also...
We'll find out why D.C. is selling off some of its public housing -- in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. We'll hear from...
As D.C. recovers from pope-mania, we'll hear how Washingtonians welcomed the pontiff this week, from taking selfies with cardboard cuto...
With the oldest of the baby boomers turning 70 next year, we'll hear from Washingtonians launching new careers in their 50s and 60s......
With Labor Day weekend here, we'll hear about a new program dedicated to helping returning citizens get jobs: by teaching them to launc...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, we'll hear from a couple who packed up and left D.C. in 2006 to start a new life in New Orleans, hel...
We're paying homage to the earth with a show about reducing, reusing, and recycling in the D.C. region.
We'll meet Washingtonians with a singular devotion to work, and a passionate dedication to play, as we bring you tales of duty and dedi...
We'll examine the past, present and future or one of D.C.'s most scenic spots, Hains Point, as well as other stories from around t...
How should we remember Maryland's Confederate history? What would you pay to get from D.C. to Baltimore in 15 minutes? What secrets lie...
We'll dive in to a new summer series on the history and changing demographics of D.C.'s free public pools. Plus, we'll find o...
Three months before the Baltimore police trial in the death of Freddie Gray, we'll take a walking tour of the city and see how it'...
We'll follow efforts to save one of Virginia's most endangered places, and visit a D.C. school with an ambitious goal: to create a...
We'll explore some of our region's trickiest problems — and meet people working to find solutions to those problems — on this...
We'll bring you stories of the moments that define and change our lives, with a show we're calling "Milestones."
We'll explore the nation's capital as an international crossroads of cultures and people.
We'll tour the D.C. region's music scene this week in a special collaboration with WAMU's music site, Bandwidth.fm.
We'll take an audio tour of Virginia's most heavily-populated county, and meet some of the 1.1 million people who call it home.
From astronomers to female barbers to a dominatrix in D.C., we'll step aside from our usual thematic approach to bring you one of our W...
Now that you can use small amounts of marijuana in the nation's capital, we'll explore how it's affecting the city, the regio...
We'll bring you stories of the secret and surreptitious, from underground vaults to off-the-record dinner parties to what happens behin...
We'll get ready for Earth Day with a show about reducing, reusing, and recycling in the D.C. region.
As residents in D.C.'s Ward 8 head to the polls this month, we'll look at life in the neighborhoods once represented by mayor-for-...
We'll meet Washingtonians with a singular devotion to work, and a passionate dedication to play, as we bring you tales of duty and dedi...
From the D.C. Jail to the tiniest town in Maryland, we'll trek across our region in pursuit of "Perseverence."
We'll celebrate the official arrival of spring with stories of the young'ns among us.
It's a show chock-full of favorite stories from the past few months -- from the tale of a nearly-forgotten figure in local history, to...
Route 1 is one of the D.C. region's oldest highways, cutting through Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. This week we meet the folks living an...
This week we're turning warehouses in to museums, agriculture in to art, and ex-offenders in to registered voters, as we explore all ki...
With homelessness on the rise in D.C., we'll hear how city officials are tackling the issue, and how homeless residents are coping with...
We'll tip our hats to Valentine's Day with tales of both romantic love and the fervor Washingtonians feel for their jobs and hobbi...
We'll look at everyday life in the place where people work and play just steps from the center of American political power.
Block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood, D.C. is in the midst of major redevelopment. What are we gaining and what are we losing in...
We'll bring you stories about "Second Chances" this week — from choosing a new path after you lose a job to recovering from a serious...
We'll go theme-free this week, as we bring you stories that run the gamut — from a look inside one of the District's last large-...
Metro Connection marks the 40th anniversary of home rule in D.C. What's next in the push for voting rights and statehood?
From how deaf people learn language to how skiing helps injured individuals heal, here are some favorites from 2014.
Wonder what's become of some of the people and places we've featured in shows past? This week we'll bring you the latest upda...
As we celebrate this Most Wonderful Time of the Year, it's our annual look at customs and rituals across the D.C. region, from Jewish r...
From condos to communes, we'll explore the meaning of home, sweet home in the Washington region.
We'll celebrate Thanksgiving by revisiting our annual show about food, glorious food.
We'll delve into our region's sharp increase in heroin abuse, as we talk with dealers, doctors, parents and recovering addicts.