Scene on Radio
Hosted by John Biewen · Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
4.9from 11,409 ratings
- 153
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 11,409
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Scene on Radio
Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.
- Publisher
- Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2015
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 153 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Guest Episode: Question Everything
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S8 E9: The News, Bonus Q&A
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Guest Episode: Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising
Inside a recent episode
Guest Episode: Question Everything
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Even if it doesn't link to your site, you want Claude to offer up your name. It seems like this is the kind of service the discoverability company was offering, helping people and businesses get discovered through AI. And Jeremy, the AI sleuth, told me that could be a reason for creating these fake local news outlets. If you just make a believable looking AI generated news website, to a machine at least, it makes you look like a more authoritative person to search engines. Like that's the entire goal here. It's just like a very weird thing. It's like this new world we're entering where it's like, AI writing for AI. […]
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- Zach St Louis
- Taya Graham
- Nicole
- A-bomb survivors
- David Enrich
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 10,941 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 468 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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John Biewen host the show. Published by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
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