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Mountain Talk

Weekly conversations about what matters to the people of Central Appalachia. In comparison to parachute reporting that paints Appalachian identity in broad strokes, Mountain Talk features locally-produced stories of people who are standing up, speaking out, and making change in their communities, from regional labor conditions and social movements to cultural and artistic accomplishments. 

Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project
  • May 1, 2025
  • 59:56
Nikki Giovanni Tribute
  • April 10, 2025
  • 1:00
Mutual Aid, Astro, Myco, Babydolls
  • April 3, 2025
  • 59:55
February 2025 Flooding in Kentucky
  • March 13, 2025
  • 56:56
Loneliness, Pollinators, and Fresh Starts
  • March 6, 2025
  • 57:10
Black Appalachians on Health
  • February 27, 2025
  • 57:23
Recovery Advocacy Day
  • February 20, 2025
  • 56:57
MLK Day Celebrations from Knoxville to Hazard
  • February 6, 2025
  • 59:25
Appalachian Rekindling Project Buy Land Where FBOP Plans to Build Prison
  • January 30, 2025
  • 55:06
On Kids & Coal Miners
  • January 23, 2025
  • 58:30
2024 Year in Review
  • January 16, 2025
  • 1:03:18
Mountain Talk: Kentucky Voices for Health Annual Meeting
  • January 9, 2025
  • 58:51
Healing Appalachia Spotlight
  • January 2, 2025
  • 57:13
Nikki Giovanni + Jean Ritchie
  • December 26, 2024
  • 59:03
Red Fox Storytelling Festival Highlight
  • December 19, 2024
  • 54:38
Sister City Italian Stone Masons
  • December 12, 2024
  • 54:52
Mountain Fiesta & More
  • November 13, 2024
  • 57:41
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in Southwest Virginia
  • October 10, 2024
  • 54:51
Teresa Hylton Diabetes And Big Lever
  • October 3, 2024
  • 58:39
The Composed Appalachian Anna Mullins & a Special Performance from Foddershock
  • September 24, 2024
  • 48:41
Forest Botanical Story Walk
  • September 11, 2024
  • 58:23
Community Health Worker Samantha Bowman
  • September 5, 2024
  • 55:37
National Problems at a Regional Level / Interview with Sistah Zock
  • August 15, 2024
  • 53:01
Steve Peake - Appalhealth
  • August 1, 2024
  • 57:07
Community Health Worker Spotlight
  • July 4, 2024
  • 58:28
Look at Us as People: Black East Kentuckians Speak on Healthcare
  • June 20, 2024
  • 57:05
AppalHealth Oral Histories: W/ Lois Thompson & Jessica Mullins Fullin
  • May 23, 2024
  • 56:06
Silica Dust, Climate Resiliency and Visionary Folklore, and Appalhealth Oral History
  • May 16, 2024
  • 56:10
Memories and Melodies of Appalachia
  • April 11, 2024
  • 53:44
A Black American Experience in the Coal Camps
  • February 22, 2024
  • 50:16
Valentine's Day Special
  • February 15, 2024
  • 47:52
Black History Month: Poetry reading at Read Spotted Newt
  • February 8, 2024
  • 56.33
SM(n)Rs in Southwest Virginia: A Community Conversation
  • January 25, 2024
  • 51:36
KY General Assembly 2024 Preview
  • January 4, 2024
  • 59:01
Considerations for ATV Trails
  • December 28, 2023
  • 50:15
Forward, Together: Gov. Beshear's Inauguration
  • December 14, 2023
  • 1:22:56
Healthy Holiday Eating; School Consolidation in the Mountains; Jean Ritchie
  • December 7, 2023
  • 59:18
Houselessness in the Mountains with Rick Branham; Songs and Stories from Walker Calhoun
  • November 16, 2023
  • 59:21
Preventing Type 2 in the Mountains
  • November 9, 2023
  • 59:43
MSHA Finally Proposed New Silica Dust Rules in Coal Mines. Will They Help Prevent Black Lung?
  • October 5, 2023
  • 58:00
Medicaid Q&A With Cara & Priscilla Of KVH
  • September 14, 2023
  • 59:15
WMMT Goes to the Queer Literary Hoedown
  • September 7, 2023
  • 59:09
Madison Buchanan & Sean Hall; Barbara Kingsolver & Fenton Johnson
  • August 31, 2023
  • 55:01
Growing Home in Letcher County / Bennie Massey Tribute
  • August 17, 2023
  • 56:13
Mountain Talk: Black Lung Town Hall
  • August 10, 2023
  • 57:23
Mountain Talk: All Is Not Lost
  • August 3, 2023
  • 59:07
Knott County: One Year Later
  • July 27, 2023
  • 32:43
No One Can Steal Your Hope: Stories of Young People Persevering
  • July 6, 2023
  • 52:33
Type 2 Diabetes and the 2022 Flood; The Brookside Women; a Performance from Jean Ritchie
  • June 12, 2023
  • 59:20
Rand WVa: Community Efforts to Solve Frequent Flooding
  • June 1, 2023
  • 41:09
Poet Marianne Worthington
  • May 18, 2023
  • 56:30
Calls From Home: Louisville Panel Discussion
  • April 27, 2023
  • 57:50
Insulin Needs—and Insulin Heroes—After the 2022 Flood; Diabetes Alert Day; Local Poets
  • April 6, 2023
  • 57:30
A WMMT Public Affairs Retrospective
  • March 30, 2023
  • 57:55
Seeking Justice for People Incarcerated in Central Appalachia's Jails
  • March 16, 2023
  • 57:34
Mental Health, In Prison and After
  • February 6, 2023
  • 28:52
Railroad Workers in Appalachia
  • January 26, 2023
  • 22:25
The Future of Healthcare in Appalachia: Interview with Dalton Hatfield
  • January 11, 2023
  • 56:20
Farming After Disaster in Eastern kentucky
  • December 19, 2022
  • 26:23
This Is Home: Memories of Raleigh County, WV
  • October 20, 2022
  • 52:40
In Recovery, Helping Communities Rebuild After Flooding
  • September 28, 2022
  • 29:12
LGBT Pride in Eastern Kentucky, Past and Present
  • July 14, 2022
  • 1:00:36
Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project
  • June 13, 2022
  • 26:32
Eula Hall’s Rural Healthcare Legacy
  • April 19, 2022
  • 59:30
Building Community in Managing Diabetes in Perry County; an Interview with a Ukrainian Coal Miner
  • April 6, 2022
  • 27:53
Evelyn Williams, Lowering A1C Levels in Letcher County, Earl Gilmore
  • March 25, 2022
  • 29:16
Buffalo Creek 50th Anniversary
  • March 25, 2022
  • 28:27
Mental Health, In Prison and After
  • February 6, 2022
  • 28:52