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The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

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544 episodesEN

Show overview

The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 544 episodes. That works out to over 1360100 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 29 min and 51 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 32 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 181 episodes published. Published by VTDigger.

Episodes
544
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
37 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

The Vermont Conversation is a VTDigger podcast hosted by award-winning journalist David Goodman. It features in-depth interviews about local and national topics with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and ordinary citizens. The Vermont Conversation is also an hour-long weekly radio program that can be heard on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. on WDEV/Radio Vermont.

Latest Episodes

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Alternative media pioneer Nat Winthrop on a half-century of covering Vermont

Aug 26, 202639 min

Grace Potter on how she achieved musical stardom by trespassing

Aug 19, 202653 min

‘What can I do?’ Ami Fields-Meyer on what global dissidents can teach Americans

Aug 12, 202643 min

‘You have a choice on how you respond.’ Kelly Brush on thriving after a life-altering accident

Aug 5, 202641 min

Author Chris Bohjalian on writing, activism and challenging the language of genocide

Jul 29, 202638 min

‘I’m sorry that this isn’t what we promised.’ Immigration attorney Jill Martin Diaz on fear and hope in Vermont’s immigrant community

Jul 22, 202641 min

Some joy, some tragedy. 2 Vermont authors on the struggles of rural living

Jul 15, 202636 min

‘How the Democrats Screwed Bernie.’ Former Sanders chief campaign strategist Tad Devine on the 2016 presidential race

Jul 8, 202653 min

‘Strive for that more perfect union.’ Rep. Becca Balint on resurgent white nationalism, war in Iran and her mixed feelings about America’s 250th

Jul 1, 202636 min

Cartoonist Tillie Walden celebrates early American queer love in Vermont in new book

Jun 24, 202645 min

‘Going to where the silence is.’ Journalist Amy Goodman on 30 years of speaking truth to power

Jun 17, 202654 min

Are smartphones birth control? Economist Caitlin Myers on sex, abortion access and talking across divides

Jun 10, 202646 min

Celebrating and defending protest, America’s founding principle

Jun 3, 202641 min

‘Action is the antidote to despair.’ Ben Cohen fights to save the soul of Ben & Jerry’s.

May 27, 202636 min

Journalist Jasper Craven on the toxic mix of militarism and masculinity

May 20, 202637 min

Going fast and breaking barriers

May 13, 202634 min

Shepherd, farmer and award-winning author Helen Whybrow on life, death and belonging

May 6, 202638 min

What happens when law enforcement is lawless?

Apr 29, 202637 min

Who made the president a king?

Apr 22, 202650 min

‘I am not afraid’: One year after arrest, Mohsen Mahdawi refuses to be silent

Apr 15, 202643 min
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