Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Media Program

The Media Program is home to VFH Radio, which produces BackStory, With Good Reason and the Humanities Feature Bureau.

Other activities include a funding pool for documentary film, programs that foster understanding of the visual media and global culture, and an editing facility that supports independent filmmakers.

VFH Radio

With Good Reason Radio
This thought-provoking half-hour show is broadcast weekly by all of Virginia's public radio stations.  Through engaging interviews, our programs explore the worlds of the arts, sciences, history, and politics.

Humanities Feature Bureau
Through short, lively public radio news reports on Virginia history, current events, and personalities, the Bureau covers social change, cultural highlights and our common quest for meaning.

BACKSTORY With the American History Guys
BACKSTORY
is a brand-new call-in radio show that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us every day.

Visual Media

Southern Humanities Media Fund
Supports inventive film, television, and radio programs that explore Southern history and identity.

Conferences & Institutes
The Media Program organizes and conducts a variety of conferences and workshops, focusing both on media production and connections between media and culture.

Special Productions
The Media Program occasionally develops and promotes special video productions, including the
Re-Imagining Ireland documentary film.

 

 


 

VFH Spotlight

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