This Is Nashville

This Is Nashville is a live one-hour daily show driven by community, for community. This flagship program of WPLN News will become your one-stop-shop for news in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, as we continue to show up each day.

This Is Nashville is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 946 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Mr. Rogers on stage, Jayla Thomas on the GOP, and private juvenile prisons under investigation

  Aug 18, 202645 min

  The headliner: WPLN’s senior criminal justice reporter Paige Pfleger on her latest investigation with ProPublica about abuse in Tennessee’s privately-run juvenile prisons. The newsmaker: Jayla Thomas, GOP candidate for state House District 55 , one of the few contested seats in Nashville on the November ballot. The tastemaker: Melanie Sutton, managing artistic director of the Tennessee Theater Fellowship , producing a play about Fred Rogers, and an unlikely friendship, called “I’m Proud of You.” It’s opening at Studio 615 Thursday night, August 20.

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  Jewish Jesus scholar Amy-Jill Levine and her lifelong quest to end antisemitism

  Aug 17, 202650 min

  When the Catholic Biblical Association reached out this year to see if Amy-Jill Levine would be interested in serving as its president, she wrote someone else on the nominating committee to ask: is this a joke? Because Levine is not Catholic. She’s Jewish. While not a Christian, the Vanderbilt professor emerita is one of the world's premier Jesus scholars who has been preaching and teaching in Christian churches in Nashville and around the globe for most of her career – all in a lifelong effort to rewire the parts of Christianity that can lead to antisemitism. "It's so common for people to make Judaism look toxic to make Jesus look good," Levine says. "The work that I do is not only to try to stop Christians from engaging in forms of Jew hatred, it's also trying to help Jews stop engaging in forms of Christian hatred. Nobody is intending to be hateful, but the words are coming out nonetheless. And the correction here is education." What started on the school bus as an attempt to prove another student wrong (she had accused Levine of killing Jesus) has blossomed into decades of scholarship intended for people who sit in church pews on Sundays. Levine has written an exhaustive list of books with names like " The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus ." Even in her retirement, she remains as busy as ever writing, reviewing manuscripts and speaking to Christian gatherings large and small. And yes, she accepted the nomination to serve as president of the Catholic Biblical Association. It became official July 20. Blake Farmer produced this episode.

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  Re-air - NextAge: Call and Response

  Aug 13, 202650 min

  We’ve done enough tap dancing around touchy words in this important conversation about intimacy and romance in the second half of life. It’s your turn. What have you learned about your body or being with another that could help the rest of us? We’ll have a sex therapist, a reformed pastor and an open-minded geriatrician in the studio. Call ahead of the show with your intimacy insights or romance recommendations at 615-760-2000. This episode was produced by Josh Deepan . Guests Raven O’Rourke , Geriatric Sex Therapist James Powers , VUMC Gerontologist Jim Palmer , former Megachurch Pastor

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  It's fair season! The friedest of the fried, fairest of the fair and cutest of the cows

  Aug 12, 202650 min

  It's fair season and we're digging in to give you a taste of what's coming up. Fairs celebrate the local community with exhibits, show animals, fried food and, of course, thrilling rides and tricky games. Today we look at the tradition through the eyes of its people and performers. We meet folks who've been around the circuit for a while as well as a few first-timers. Plus, we track down a vendor dreaming up this year's must-try bite. The Williamson County fair is going on now but wrapping up Saturday. The Wilson County - Tennessee State Fair kicks off tomorrow. And the rest will start up in September. You can keep in the know at the Tennessee Association of Fairs . This episode was produced by Mary Mancini. Guests: Sarah Fast , Faster Pastures Maddi Minnear , American Highland Cattle Association Junior Lance Alleman , William Morris Endeavor Amy Pilkinton Ashby , Pageant Director, Dickson County Fairest of the Fair Tashonnie Brooks , Queen of the Dickson County Fair 2025 Lisa LaGrange , D n L Concessions

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  Charlie Hatcher, Martha Ingram, uncovering a pivotal figure of Catholicism in Tennessee, and Athena’s Court

  Aug 11, 202645 min

  The headlines: A remembrance of Martha Ingram with Alan Valentine and Mac Pirkle and a live interview with Charlie Hatcher , the Republican who upset Congressman Andy Ogles. The newsmaker: General Sessions Court Judge Ana Escobar discusses Athena’s Court , a decade-old program designed to identify human trafficking survivors in the court system and connect them with support and services. The tastemaker: Writer and Author Joe Pagetta tells us about The Indefatigable Life and Ministry of Father Aloysius Orengo , the Italian priest who faced war, hardship and dangerous anti-Catholic vitriol as a missionary in Tennessee.

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