Random WHRV Podcasts

Beginning October 22nd, you’ll have the opportunity to share your stories during the StoryCorps MobileBooth’s month-long visit to Hampton Roads. At the MobileBooth, interviews are conducted between two people who know and care about each other. You’ll hear a selection of these local stories on WHRV, and we’ll even create special programs around the project. Some segments may air nationally on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Story Corps, StoryCorps, WHRO, WHRV

Did you ever have a question you were too uncomfortable to ask? How about finding yourself in a socially awkward situation and being unsure of what to do next? Mind Over Manners is a tool that can help! Lisa Godley and Sondra Woodward’s podcast endeavors to raise your social IQ. Join us each week for insights ranging from proper wedding and funeral etiquette, to how to handle that workplace romance, and even that online interaction on social media. Email your comments or questions to mindovermanners@whro.org or find us on Facebook @MindOverMannersPodcast.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Culture, Etiquette, funeral etiquette, LGBTQ etiquette, Lisa Godley, manners, Race Relations, relationships, social IQ, Society, Sondra Woodward, wedding etiquette, WHRV, workplace romance

Local film critic and master storyteller Mal Vincent reflects on the decades he spent writing about films and entertainment and the celebrities he got to know along the way.

Categories: Arts

Tags: art, Critic, Entertainment, Entertainment News, film, Hampton Roads, Mal Vincent, movie, music, theater, theatre, WHRO, WHRV

Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.

Categories: Technology

Tags: aerospace, Innovation, NASA, NIA, now, Technology, WHRV

What We Do is a documentary podcast series hosted by Doug Fraser. Join in on Doug’s journey as he explores the people behind the most intriguing passions, hobbies, and jobs around the world. From meeting the person who found 17 billion dollars in sunken treasure, to exploring the story of the man behind the voice of animated character Porky-Pig, the topics span far and wide.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Culture, Doug Fraser, hobbies, interviews, jobs, local, national, people, Personal Stories, point of view, profession, profiles, WHRO, WHRV

A series of interviews and performances on Acoustic Highway on 89.5 WHRV. Acoustic Highway airs live every Sunday evening from 9-10pm eastern with acoustic music.

Categories: Music

Tags: Acoustic, Acoustic Highway, Barry Graham, WHRV

The WHRO Writer’s Block brings together local artists who share a common bond—expressing themselves through writing. Performers include local poets and slam poets, spoken word artists, storytellers, and authors with interludes of music by some of the region’s top musicians. Topics vary from the environment and war to love and race relations. Works range from somber and thought-provoking to lighthearted and comical.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Literature, poet, poetry, slam poetry, spoken word, story, storytelling, WHRV, Writer, writing, written word

HearSay with Cathy Lewis is WHRV FM’s locally-produced, public affairs radio call-in program that discusses issues important to our community. Every Monday through Wednesday, we reach listeners from Richmond to Emporia. Hosted by Cathy Lewis, who can be contacted at hearsay@whro.org

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Cathy Lewis, Hampton Roads, Hear Say, News, Norfolk, pets, Politics, Radio Talk Show, WHRO, WHRV

All week, on each edition of Out of the Box, listen for songs from one of the best albums that’s just hitting stores and hear Paul Shugrue’s review of that album.

Categories: Music

Tags: Album of the Week, CD of the Week, Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Out of the Box, WHRO, WHRV

When not in the radio studio, Dwight Davis likes to go afield with his binoculars and watch birds. “Birdnotes” is a result of his long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: binoculars, Bird watching, Birdnotes, Birds, Dwight Davis, Hampton Roads, WHRO, WHRV