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On Second Thought is a one-hour news talk show hosted by Virginia Prescott that airs at 11 a.m. Friday, 7 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Timely conversations about all topics relating to Georgia and the South — including politics, healthcare, education, music, literature and race. We bring you stories you won't hear elsewhere and voices that are often ignored. Subscribe for weekly episodes that highlight the stories and characters that are impacting the civic and cultural life of the South.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient interviews connect Georgia politics and policy to the communities, histories, and cultural forces that give public events their meaning.
On Second Thought makes Georgia's public life legible through patient interviews that connect policy and politics to lived experience. Virginia Prescott asks direct, clarifying questions, then gives guests room to explain the conditions around an event rather than reducing it to…
Ahmaud Arbery's friends get more than his final 35 seconds; so do you.
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A steady hour about voting power, representation, and the long echo of Otis Redding.
On Second Thought pairs a tribute to Otis Redding with a public radio conversation about women’s voting power, moving from the 100-year mark of the 19th Amendment to the harder truth that suffrage did not reach all women at once.
A steady mix of pandemic reporting and Athens music history, held together by calm public-radio narration.
On Second Thought begins with COVID-19's uneven toll in Georgia's low-income communities of color, then grounds that story in Dr. Haval Kelly's on-the-ground view as a frontline doctor and advocate for Georgia's immigrant and refugee populations.
A humane, careful portrait that restores Ahmaud Arbery’s life to the center.
This episode of On Second Thought centers Ahmaud Arbery’s life, not just the violence that ended it. Interviews with his mother, a high school football coach, and others who knew him give the piece a fuller shape, showing a young man drawn to writing, music, composition, sports,…
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
UFO disclosure with teeth.
Bleak news, deadpan jokes, no broadcast polish.
Australian investigations, followed from the ground up.
Virginia Prescott opens by tying Otis Redding's legacy to a wider conversation about women's voting power.
Georgia's COVID-19 death toll opens the hour.
A news talk show investigates a potential wrongful conviction in a 1985 church murder case, exploring racial bias and a reopened GBI investigation.
Virginia Prescott opens with a simple idea: most people know Ahmaud Arbery only from the last 35 seconds of his life.
Interview with filmmakers about the untold story behind Muhammad Ali's 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta.