Media Program
The Media Program is home to VFH Radio, which produces 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.
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.
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.
Listen Now!
You Sound like You're Not from Around Here
Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent. Linguistics professor Steven Weinberger (George Mason University) explains how and when we develop accents and how these accents affect our identity.
Also: Written in early English, Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth century writings may seem impenetrable, with strange pronunciation and incomprehensible phrases . English professor Alan Baragona (Virginia Military Institute) says the best way to approach Chaucer is to read it out loud and hear the musicality of the words.
The Incredible Mr. Poe
HFB, 4:00 -
A pop culture icon in his own time, Edgar Allan Poe has found a new audience among fans of comic books and graphic novels. Reporter Nancy King checked out a new exhibit at the Poe Museum in Richmond.
