The Broadside

    Each week, The Broadside highlights a story from the heart of the American South and asks why it matters to you. From news to arts and culture, we dive into topics that might not be on a front page, but deserve a closer look. Along the way, we explore the nuances of our home—and how what happens here ripples across the country. Hosted by Anisa Khalifa, The Broadside is a production of North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC. Find it every Thursday wherever you listen to podcasts.

  • Deck your halls with Rauch balls

  • Tony Hawk and the skateboard rabbit hole

  • Can we save Christmas (trees)?

  • The mystery of the Brown Mountain lights

  • Storytelling's surprising digital age revival

  • The world's biggest video game is from North Carolina

  • A Day in the Life: The artist

  • The weirdest and wildest political stories

  • Why it's so hard to find a good couch

  • Bonus episode: Let's go to the fair!

  • Is it becoming too hot to work?

  • Hurricanes, helicopters and how we help

  • The art and alarming science of political ads

  • The gravestone grudge that changed cemetery law

  • The Latino South

  • How y'all conquered the world (Revisited)

  • Is this the death of DEI?

  • The new Southern Hollywood

  • How the Greensboro Six changed golf forever

  • What happens after a hate crime

  • Pro wrestling climbs back to the top rope

  • Love found while ‘chasing the light’

  • How beach music taught Southerners to 'dance sexy'

  • Bigfoot is from North Carolina

  • Can we bring red wolves back from the brink (again)?

  • The other Declaration of Independence

  • The surprising cricket capital of the South

  • The science behind saving an island

  • Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor (Revisited)

  • Charlotte the stingray's tangled web

  • The hunt for a long-lost musical masterpiece

  • Billy Graham’s statue and the legacy of ‘America’s Pastor’

  • NASCAR's racing simulator revolution (Revisited)

  • Our trash lives next to this community

  • How many dollar stores are too many? (Revisited)

  • Zombie deer and our looming conservation crisis

  • Can we save the banana from extinction?

  • Breaking Southern baseball's color barrier

  • The toxic spill that left a legacy of change

  • Teachers challenge the nation's toughest union ban

  • Women's basketball is having its moment

  • Tornado Alley is moving to the South

  • Why cola became king

  • Robert F. Williams' bold history lesson

  • Purple, teal and the rise of basketball fashion

  • More power poles, more problems

  • Craft beer’s emerging Southern flavor

  • How one business built Black Wall Street

  • NASCAR's racing simulator revolution

  • Place, Erased: Environmental ghost towns

  • EVs are reshaping the South one small town at a time

  • The remarkable story of daredevil Tiny Broadwick

  • Featuring: Embodied - How fandoms build community

  • The kids are alright: NPR Student Podcast Challenge finalist

  • Recovering from long Covid could be a long journey

  • Millions across the South can’t trust their tap water

  • One state could be a test case for tackling the opioid crisis

  • Featuring: North Carolina pottery from clay to kiln

  • The process to return Native American remains is broken

  • My next-door neighbor is a weapon of mass destruction

  • The takeover of The Robesonian

  • How many dollar stores are too many?

  • What it takes to make music in prison

  • Asian American Studies has arrived

  • A look inside America’s climate data bunker

  • How y'all conquered the world

  • Introducing: The Broadside

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