Podcast Episodes

S3 E8: American Made

Season 3 Episode 8

American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities.  A …

7 years, 2 months ago

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S3 E7: Himpathy

Season 3 Episode 7

Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew h…

7 years, 3 months ago

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S3 E6: Warriors

Season 3 Episode 6

Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars?

Along …

7 years, 3 months ago

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S3 E5: More Than Paper Cuts

Season 3 Episode 5

The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., …

7 years, 4 months ago

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S3 E4: Feminism in Black and White

Season 3 Episode 4

The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at …

7 years, 4 months ago

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S3 E3: Skeleton War

Season 3 Episode 3

A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion sho…

7 years, 5 months ago

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S3 E2: Ain't No Amoeba

Season 3 Episode 2

For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better.…

7 years, 5 months ago

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S3 E1: Dick Move

Season 3 Episode 1

Launching our Season 3 series, co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the…

7 years, 6 months ago

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Scene on Radio Season 3: MEN Trailer

Season 3

Scene on Radio opens its Season 3 series, MEN, with this preview. Host John Biewen introduces the series with series co-host Celeste Headlee.

Music …

7 years, 6 months ago

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I Know It's You (Rebroadcast)

A father turns on a recorder while tucking in his 7-year-old, having no idea he’s about to capture a poignant growing-up moment in his son’s life. (A…

8 years, 1 month ago

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