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WUTC 88.1 FM is Chattanooga's NPR Station. Your home for community public radio in Chattanooga & the Tennessee Valley.

WUTC 88.1 FM is Chattanooga's NPR Station, a public service nonprofit organization licensed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

01/04/2026

At 9:00 pm tonight listen to Humankind Evergreen Ev #246: Nj Food Bank/ Worry solution.

SEGMENT 1: The inspiring tale of a woman who felt called to help hungry people in New Jersey, initially by distributing food from her car and now, decades years later, her foodbank employs 200, is the size of 7 football fields and last year fed more than 900,000 people.

SEGMENT 2: Bay Area physician and Univ. of California medical professor Martin Rossman, author of 'The Worry Solution', describes ways to distinguish between what we can change and what we must learn to accept.

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01/03/2026

Tune in tonight at 9:00 pm to Dining Disasters, Crazy Chefs and a Michelin-Starred Nightmare: True Restaurant Stories.

From Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio Evergreen Shows, this week, we share stories from the world of fine dining. Maître d' Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has encounters with mobsters, fainting celebrities and unruly guests at New York’s top restaurants and reveals the secrets to great service. Writer Geraldine DeRuiter sits down for the world’s strangest Michelin-starred meal: She eats rancid cheese, slurps foam out of a ceramic mouth and is forced to watch the kitchen staff play extreme sports. Plus, historian Rebecca Spang uncovers the invention of the restaurant, Sara Moulton reveals the most baffling thing she ever witnessed in her career as a chef, and actors tell us how waiting tables unexpectedly helped their theater careers.

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01/01/2026

Tonight at 7:00 pm listen to Check This Out: Holiday recommendations for winter reading.

Check This Out host, Rachel Barenbaum discusses some of her favorite new books by emerging authors with guests Deesha Philyaw and Gwydion Suilebhan, who also offer their choices for titles they enjoyed this year.

Deesha Philyaw is an author, columnist, and public speaker. Her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize among others.

Gwydion Suilebhan is a cultural critic, essayist, and playwright. He serves as the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

They also give us some insight on judging literary fiction and how the process works as we head into the high season for book awards.

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12/31/2025

Happy New Year from WUTC!

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12/28/2025

Tonight at 9:00 pm tune into the Human Kind Special: Listeners.
In a time of polarization, the simple practice of listening to another can feel like a lost art. There’s a kind of mystery in sitting calmly, patiently, attentively and tuning into someone else’s personal story – their experience and life journey. In this new Humankind special presented by David Freudberg in association with WGBH/Boston, we hear the reflective insights of people who listen for a living: physicians, counselors and clergy.
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12/27/2025

Tonight at 9:00 pm make sure to listen to The No Small Endeavor Holiday Special 2025: Practices of Hope.

When the headlines numb and the culture wars grind us down, what if hope isn’t a mood at all—but a practice you can do with your body, your friends, and your city?

In this holiday special, Lee revisits four conversations to find practices of hope: meditation teacher Tara Brach on healing the “trance of unworthiness,” songwriter Tom Paxton on the folk community that fueled social change, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on climate imagination, and educator Sharon McMahon on everyday civic action. Together they offer three grounded practices—for self, for community, and for the common good—that help us act toward a more beautiful future.

Practice 1—Self: Tara Brach’s “two wings” of mindfulness and compassion help us befriend reality and begin change from within (“What is happening inside me right now? … Can I be with this?”).

Practice 2—Community: Tom Paxton’s Greenwich Village years show how laughter, critique, and shared craft create courage—and movements. Make something together offline and let belonging fuel hope.

Practice 3—Civic: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson invites a shift from apocalypse to imagination—joining others to scale solutions we already have; Sharon McMahon reminds us everyone can do something. Start local and “join something.”

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12/23/2025

Happy Holidays from WUTC!

12/20/2025

Tonight at 9:00 pm, tune in for the Holiday programming of Humankind Evergreen EV #242: The Common Good & Reclaiming the Holidays!

SEGMENT 1: The heir to the Oscar Mayer fortune, Chuck Collins, examines income inequality, sustainable local economies and his personal journey in a provocative new book, "Born on Third Base."

SEGMENT 2: The social and economic pressure to approach the December holidays as a breathless buying spree is enormous. This program explores other, less consumer-oriented ways of showing our affection to the people we care about.

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12/14/2025

Make sure you tune in tonight at 9:00 pm for Chanukkah In Story and Song ! Chanukkah In Story and Song is sung by the The Western Wind Narrated by Leonard Nimoy The acclaimed vocal sextet and the renowned actor present 25 eclectic selections, from the Ladino songs of the Spanish Jews and Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe to modern Israeli tunes and their original version of “I Have a Little Dreydle.” The singers sing a ca****la and are also joined by instruments including violin, accordion, bass and guitar. The narration written by Rabbi Gerald Skolnik sheds light on the holiday customs and rituals. Be sure to catch this!
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12/13/2025

Tune into Two Holidays and a Blizzard Tonight at 9:00 pm! Two Holidays and a Blizzard features Three short plays. THE BLIZZARD, a chilly thriller, features Jesse Eisenberg as a snowed-in screenwriter facing unexpected guests. In THE MIRACLE OF CHANUKAH, a holiday guest’s personal miracle throws a family for a loop. In CHRISTMAS BREAKS, a guy dumps a girl but presents a substitute. Interview with David Ives, John Rando and The Blizzard cast; Sheri Wilner and The Miracle of Chanukah cast and the cast of Christmas Breaks. You don't want to miss this!
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12/12/2025

Cuatro Cinco, the first hip-hop artist ever to headline Nightfall Music Series this year in Chattanooga, has a new R&B single "Naked" - and a show on December 20th at Songbirds Foundation.

Listen to Haley Solomon's live interview on WUTC with Cuatro Cinco and members of his band anytime at wutc.org: https://heyor.ca/AjAcpF

"The Haley Solomon Show" airs Mondays - Thursdays from 1 PM - 3 PM on WUTC.

12/11/2025

On a special episode of WUTC's Scenic Roots, listen to the Fall 2025 showcase from the student storytellers of Rising Rock Media in UTC Communication Department at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: https://heyor.ca/fPKVUK

Our thanks to Billy Weeks, Malcolm Key and the entire class for the stories on Chattanooga as America's first National Park City, equine therapy and more.

The Rising Rock Showcase returns to Scenic Roots on WUTC during Spring Semester 2026 at UTC.

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