- 278
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 10
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Mountain Talk
Weekly program featuring storytelling & conversations about what matters to the people of Central Appalachia. Broadcast from WMMT— the 24-hour voice of mountain people’s music, culture, and social issues. WMMT provides broadcast space for creative expression, community involvement, and discussion of public policy to benefit coalfield communities and the Appalachian region as a whole. Find us online at http://wmmt.org!
- Publisher
- WMMT/Appalshop
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Feb 2016
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 278 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mountain Talk: Readings from Two Great Mountain Writers—Nikki Giovanni & Gurney Norman
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mountain Talk: Opioid Settlement Money in KY—What's Happening With It Now, & How It Could Help Most
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mountain Talk: Reflecting on 9/11, with Wendell Berry; Plus, Remembering the Battle of Blair Mountain
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Mountain Talk: Readings from Two Great Mountain Writers—Nikki Giovanni & Gurney Norman
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Am I making? And so as you begin your writing careers, as you start to, and some of us are are my age in this room, very few, I think I'm one of the oldest people in the room, but some of us are my age and you have memories and there are stories that you want to tell, tell them. And then you think about it and you say, oh, I forgot. Well, whatever it is that you forgot, tell it another way. Don't correct what you did because there's no such thing as a mistake. There's only, I can go further. I'm a native Tennessean. I was born there during the age of segregation, when you couldn't go to the same amusement park or the same movie theater, when the white guys would cruise up and down the streets and call out to you, when the black guys were afraid of being lynched. […]
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- Nikki Giovanni
- Gurney Norman
- Ashley Spalding
- Amanda Hall
- Amanda Parker
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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