The Talking Appalachian Podcast
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A Conversation with Bestselling Writers Beth Macy and Silas House
32 mins; March 24, 2026
What We Believe About Appalachian Dialects and Why It Matters, According to Linguist Dr. Jennifer Cramer
42 mins; March 11, 2026
Crystal Wilkinson on writing to the bone, and spoken dialect as a "revolutionary act"
49 mins; February 25, 2026
Mamaw's Story: Hear Her Oral History in Her Own Words (Quoted in the Atlantic)
21 mins; February 05, 2026
Listening to Letters: Appalachian Englishes Across a Century
28 mins; January 22, 2026
Appalachia's Old Christmas, New Year's Traditions and Superstitions, and "Untelling"
6 mins; December 29, 2025
Bless Your Heart: The Journey to Understanding and Embracing Our Appalachian Voiceplaces
32 mins; December 04, 2025
In Conversation with Ron Rash: The Caretaker and Appalachian Narratives
39 mins; November 25, 2025
Homer Hickam: From Rocket Boy to Bestselling Writer
47 mins; November 05, 2025
The Last Run: Molasses-Making in the Mountains
7 mins; October 29, 2025
The "Re-Storification" of Appalachia with Jeff Biggers
31 mins; October 17, 2025
The Folklore and Custom of "Telling the Bees"
11 mins; September 22, 2025
Talkin' Appalachian in the Digital Space with Appalachian_Bluebird
23 mins; September 04, 2025
When "Rednecks" Rose Up: Igniting the Labor Movement in Appalachia and What "Hillbilly" Means to Me
23 mins; August 27, 2025
Haint Blue, Ghost Walking in the Low Country, and The Disappearing -R in Appalachian Accents
15 mins; August 13, 2025
Dog Days, the Signs, and More Summer Lore
26 mins; July 22, 2025
Tiffany Williams: Singer, Songwriter, and Appalachian Dialect Coach
37 mins; July 10, 2025
Barbara Kingsolver on Writing and the Recovery Center Built by Demon Copperhead
63 hours 8 mins; June 25, 2025
The Ballad of Falling Rock and Author Jordan Dotson
37 mins; June 18, 2025
Kendra Winchester of the Read Appalachia Podcast and the Books that Made Us
42 mins; June 12, 2025
Season 3: "Let's Discuss" Southern and Appalachian Culture with Landon Bryant
38 mins; June 04, 2025
Is the Southern Accent Fading?
17 mins; May 15, 2025
The 1929 Cyclone of Rye Cove, Virginia: Storm, Song, and Suit
19 mins; April 30, 2025
From the Highlands to the Hollers: Outlander, Scots English and Appalachian Englishes
13 mins; April 16, 2025
Appalachian Accents and Speech Recognition Technology
16 mins; April 03, 2025
Talkin' Truth with NYT Bestselling Author of The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
25 mins; March 13, 2025
The Meanings and Mystery of "Melungeon"
16 mins; February 26, 2025
The Word "Dadgum" and author Silas House on Defeating Accent Bullies "One Word at a Time"
10 mins; February 13, 2025
"Them guys," Three Reasons We Will Always Talk Appalachian, and an Excerpt from Lee Smith
11 mins; February 06, 2025
"Here's you a piece of pizza": a common grammar pattern in the South, and Wool as a Verb
6 mins; January 23, 2025
The Best of 2024: Highlights Part 2
31 mins; January 10, 2025
The Best of 2024: Highlight Clips from Selected Episodes
26 mins; January 02, 2025
The Christmas Poke, a Hard Candy Christmas, Old Christmas, and Animals Praying at Midnight in Appalachia
20 mins; December 19, 2024
Graveyards, Famous Houses, and an Inspirational Mailbox in the Middle of Nowhere: Sleepy Hollow to Sunset Beach
28 mins; December 06, 2024
What Do We Mean by 'Directly' and 'Needs Washed'?
9 mins; November 13, 2024
Places and Spaces: Edgar Allen Poe's Baltimore Home and a Reading of "The Raven"
13 mins; October 30, 2024
Grave Matters: Appalachian Death Lore, Burial, and Mourning Rituals
22 mins; October 29, 2024
Appalachian Reckoning, Hillbillies, and Accents with Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
41 mins; October 23, 2024
Appalshop: 55 Years of Telling Appalachia's Stories
35 mins; October 09, 2024
Adriana Trigiani: a Bestselling Author on Books, Movies, Podcasting, and Place
25 mins; September 24, 2024
Finding Glimmers with Poet Jane Hicks and Music by Tiffany Williams
29 mins; September 16, 2024
"Hillbilly" and an Interview with Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker Ashley York
41 mins; September 04, 2024
The Meaning of "Redneck" and Its Role in the U.S. Labor Movement
24 mins; August 29, 2024
Appalachia's Scottish Roots and the Dialect Influences of Scots Gaelic
46 mins; August 14, 2024
A Conversation with Barbara Kingsolver Part II
63 hours 8 mins; July 31, 2024
A Conversation with Pulitzer Winning Author of Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver (Part 1)
45 mins; July 24, 2024
Mountain Lake Lodge in Southwest Virginia: History, Mystery, and Hollywood
23 mins; July 17, 2024
The Origin of "Dog Days" and Its Folklore, and the Southern Appalachian City of Knoxville
32 mins; July 03, 2024
The Tradition of Prayer Cloths, and the Only Town in Appalachia That's Named "Appalachia"
10 mins; June 27, 2024
The word "Holler," Lightning Bug or Firefly, and Spellcheck by Anne Shelby
19 mins; June 19, 2024
The Myth of Isolation in Appalachia
25 mins; June 11, 2024
'Eye Dialect' as a Contributor to Stereotype and Michael Montgomery's Research on the Written Dialect of 18th Century Documents
9 mins; May 17, 2024
Talking Cherokee, Resilience and Devotion
40 mins; May 08, 2024
The Burial Ground in the Woods Part II
28 mins; April 24, 2024
The Burial Ground in the Woods
31 mins; April 15, 2024
Talking Appalachian in Ireland
23 mins; April 04, 2024
The Woodcarver
24 mins; March 21, 2024
What Two Letters a Century Apart Tell Us About the Writers' Home Voices
28 mins; February 20, 2024
Three Reasons Why You Can be Proud of Your Dialect (Plus a Discussion of 'Sworp' and 'Watch for Deer')
18 mins; February 07, 2024
A Conversation with Pulitzer Winning Southern Writer Rick Bragg (Part II)
24 mins; January 24, 2024
A Conversation with Pulitzer Winning Southern Writer Rick Bragg (Part I)
40 mins; January 16, 2024
New Year's Eve Superstitions and Foods, Old Christmas, and the Word "Untelling"
12 mins; December 31, 2023
Fixin' to, the A-Prefix and Twelve Days of Christmas, and an Excerpt from Verna Mae Slone's "How We Talked"
11 mins; December 14, 2023
Napoleon Hill Part II with Don Green on The Four Uses of Money and Millionaire Mindset
19 mins; December 06, 2023
Napoleon Hill: from Appalachian Roots to Riches with Executive Director Don Green Part I
23 mins; November 30, 2023
Why Some Speakers Add an Extra 'T', Killed (or Kilt) Lettuce, and Storyteller Ray Hicks
18 mins; November 15, 2023
The Haunting of Bertha Sybert
17 mins; October 30, 2023
Ron Rash, Bestselling Author, Talks about The Caretaker and the Stories, Voices, and Places that Inspire His Writing
41 mins; October 25, 2023
Crystal Wilkinson on Voice as a Revolutionary Act and Writing to the Bone
47 mins; September 29, 2023
The Art of Making Molasses (or 'Lasses or 'Molassey')
8 mins; September 11, 2023
Kentucky author Silas House Part II
39 mins; August 19, 2023
Kentucky Author Silas House Part I
21 mins; August 04, 2023
How Appalachia Got Its Name, Appa-la-cha and Appa-lay-cha, and Why Words Change Over Time
8 mins; July 29, 2023
The History of our Dialects and that Elizabethan English Rumor
12 mins; July 29, 2023
About the Talking Appalachian Podcast and our Voiceplace
6 mins; July 29, 2023