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Season 7
Welcome to Season 7: Capitalism. The world's dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn't been for at least half a century. This season tells th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bonus: Long Shadow, In Guns We Trust
As we get ready to launch our Season 7, a bonus episode from another podcast we think our listeners will want to hear: Long Shadow. Episode 1 of its …
1 year, 7 months ago
S6 E5: A Way Forward
Season 6 Episode 5
What would it take, and what would it even mean, to heal from a wound like the Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 — or from centuries of white supr…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6 E4: The Forgetting
Season 6 Episode 4
After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising Black citizens and i…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6 E3: A Day of Blood
Season 6 Episode 3
On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls – confirming the success of their campaign based on white supremacy, i…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6 E2: Crying "Negro Rule"
Season 6 Episode 2
By 1898, two decades after the end of Reconstruction, white elites, backed by violent terror groups, have installed Jim Crow across most of the South…
1 year, 11 months ago
S6 E1: What Was Lost
Season 6 Episode 1
This series tells the story of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, and the white supremacist massacre that went with it. It happened in …
2 years ago
Trailer: Echoes of a Coup
Season 6
Introduction to Season 6, a series co-produced by Michael A. Betts II and Scene on Radio producer and host John Biewen, with story editor Loretta Wil…
2 years ago
Update: Scene on Radio status report
Scene on Radio is on an extended hiatus, but is on its way back. Host and producer John Biewen explains that the show has found a new home: the Kenan…
2 years, 7 months ago
"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s orig…
3 years, 5 months ago