Scenic Roots
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Scenic Roots offers conversations that matter in the heart of Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley.
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"Scenic Roots" offers conversations that matter in the heart of Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley.
From the mountains to the river, our conversations are rooted deep within every corner of our community - reflecting who we are, who we were and who we can become.
We engage with the news that affects our community, behind and beyond the headlines. We build bridges that span from creators and innovators to storytellers and the outdoors. We focus on our challenges as many communities in one - as we celebrate what inspires us. We resonate with countless voices - in words and spaces, sounds and songs.
We are "Scenic Roots."
- Ray Bassett hosts and produces "Scenic Roots" at WUTC.
Latest Episodes
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“Bombshell” is a new documentary - premiering Tuesday night on PBS’ “American Experience” - that explores how the U.S. Government tried to minimize the human toll of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, and a handful of reporters who sought to tell the full story. -
Last fall, Linor Shirinov arrived here in Chattanooga from Israel - just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days. For the next few years, she is serving as the latest cultural emissary from Israel at the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga. -
Craig Havighurst is an author, a music journalist - and a public radio broadcaster. He’s the editorial director at WMOT - the American roots radio station in Tennessee - and his recent book is “Musicality for Modern Humans: How to Listen Like an Artist." -
“Musicality for Modern Humans” - by WMOT’s Craig Havighurst. A cultural emissary for the Jewish community in Chattanooga. "Bombshell." On this episode of “Scenic Roots.” -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) Early in the new year, the Chattanooga Jewish Documentary Film Series returns. Ann Treadwell is with the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga. -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) Nature is the classroom at a school at the foot of Lookout Mountain. This weekend, Barrelhouse Ballroom in Chattanooga hosts a concert for The Wauhatchie Forest School. -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) Sometimes, a lump of coal is more than a lump of coal. It can also be a key that symbolizes how an economy - and a culture - can change. -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) Make Music Winter - which culminates with the Winter Solstice on Sunday - is in the spirit of Make Music Day, held worldwide each summer. -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) As Rodney Van Valkenburg retires as executive director of Chattanooga Theatre Centre, he looks back on decades of serving the arts in Chattanooga and beyond. -
(Aired Thu 12/18/25) Developers based in Nashville have requested the rezoning of 19 Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga to make room for a 12-story mixed use development with 266 apartments.
