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!
To Kill A Mockingbird -
The National Endowment for the Arts is encouraging all of us to read or re-read Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, that presents the Jim Crow south through the eyes of a young girl. Gary Edgerton (Old Dominion University) and Ted McCosky ( Radford University) explain why the film that came out just two years after the novel is still considered iconic and beloved. Ed Weathers (Virginia Tech) says that the book was the last great work of literature concerned with our legal system.
Also: Mary Badham, the actress who portrayed Scout in the film, talks with Sarah McConnell about the importance of reading, and Charles Shields tells us about writing the first and only biography of Harper Lee.
Frankenstein invades Jefferson's Dome Room
HFB, 4:00 - The Dome Room at the University of Virginia plays host to a monster of an exhibition. Nancy King has a preview of "The Monster Among Us: Frankenstein… from Mary Shelley to Mel Brooks."
