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(aired Mon 5/02/22) When the pandemic hit, comedy clubs were among the shuttered venues. A few comics who left New York City and came to Chattanooga have recreated the scene they know at the Bode - with Carpetbaggers Comedy Night.

(aired Mon 5/02/22) Skuid is a tech startup here in Chattanooga that helps companies develop customer-friendly apps for its workers. Ken McElrath launched Skuid - an acronym for Scalable Kit for User Interface Design - in 2013.

Richard Winham shares a performance by Jeremy Pinnell - a country singer from Northern Kentucky described by Rolling Stone as “hardscrabble honky-tonk at its best” - at The Woodshop on St. Elmo Avenue in Chattanooga. (First aired Tues 4/05/22)

(aired Weds 6/22/22) Blood Assurance welcomed its first blood donor fifty years ago. The nonprofit was formed by medical professionals and concerned citizens in 1972 when the Chattanooga area at that time faced an urgent need for blood collections.

The finale for this year’s Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas. Carmen Nesbitt, reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Tembi Locke, author of the memoir “From Scratch,” on caregiving. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

(aired Thu 6/23/22) Riverdance comes to Chattanooga this weekend. A preview from our own Mal O’Connell.

(aired Thu 6/23/22) Carmen Nesbitt is education reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press. I spoke with her about two of her recent stories on the Hamilton County Schools: one on summer literacy - and the other on school security.

(aired Thu 6/23/22) An up-and-coming musician in Chattanooga is making himself heard. Our own Justin Turner introduces us to him.

(aired Thu 6/23/22) Tembi Locke is the author of “From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home.” Next week, she will share her experience as a caregiver as the keynote speaker at this year’s Embrace Aging Forum - Tuesday at The Westin Hotel in downtown Chattanooga.

(aired Weds 6/22/22) Richard Winham shares a conversation with poet Howard Brown, whose new collection is “Variations in the Perception of Color.”