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Scene on Radio

Hosted by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity
Sometimes has guests
25% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
48 min
Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.
Publishing
Weekly+
138 episodes · last 2026-09-02
Language
English (US)
Declared in the feed as en-us.
Where it's from
Outside the UK
The feed declares en-us.
Reach
72
Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.
Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.
Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat i

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

  1. Guest Episode: Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising
  2. Guest Episode: The Battle for Free Speech
  3. First America: It Happened Here
  4. First America: Playing Indian
  5. First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"
  6. S8 E8: Making Media Democratic

This show publishes a contact

We hold the address this show publishes in its own feed. Addresses and drafted pitches are part of a plan. Browsing stays free, and we never send on your behalf.

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