BPR News Presents
Friday mornings at 9 on BPR News and BPR Classic; Saturday evenings at 8 on BPR News
BPR News Presents is the official title of all original programming and content produced by the BPR news team. This includes 'The Porch', the news teams' long-form interview show, one-off special shows that focus on a single topic, and candidate and political forums for elected offices in Western North Carolina.
Latest Episodes
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On this episode of The Porch, a production of the BPR news team, we hear from -Dr. Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University, recapping 2021 in North… -
A lot contributes to climate change. A Warren Wilson College professor decided to examine one factor that many might find uncomfortable to talk about but… -
2021 in North Carolina politics saw a lot of what marked the state's politics in the prior decade - lawsuits and court rulings that left just as many… -
In this episode of The Porch, a production of the BPR news team, we hear from -Dr. Chris Cooper, political scientist at Western Carolina University, about… -
New maps made new lines. Those inspired Western North Carolina's Congressman to run somewhere else, meaning the region will have a member of Congress come… -
A federal government housing voucher program is making the problems it was designed to alleviate only worse in the South. That's according to a six-month… -
Just one month after the protests following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Asheville City Council approved a resolution calling for… -
For almost 40 years, faculty at UNC Asheville have helped in the creation of the annual global Political Terror Scale. The report measures and codes human… -
In this episode of The Porch, a production of the BPR news team, we hear from -Residents of Haywood County who saw the flood waters on August 17th rise in… -
On August 17th, historic flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred devastated Western North Carolina. Haywood County was hit hardest, as six…
