Unfinished

Sarah Esikoff opens Sounds Gay as a Stitcher Studios documentary series about music, sound, queer lives, and culture, and Casey Holford frames the premiere as a CCM story.

Unfinished's "Ernie's Secret" follows Bill Lawrence, a retired FBI agent in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and Ernest Withers, the Memphis photographer known in FBI files as M.E.

Unfinished's "Ernie's Secret" follows Martin Luther King Jr.'s final Memphis trip on April 3 and April 4, 1968, after the violent sanitation workers march and the death of 16-year-old Larry Payne.

Ernest Withers sits at the center of Unfinished: Ernie's Secret, which follows the March 28, 1968 Memphis sanitation march and the FBI files around it.

Unfinished's "Ernie's Secret | E7 Harm / No Harm?" asks whether Ernest Withers' FBI work on Memphis activists did direct damage or only reflected a larger COINTELPRO machine.

Unfinished: Ernie's Secret | E6 Informants examines Ernest Withers's relationship with the FBI from 1958 to 1976 and the wider informant network surrounding the civil rights movement.

Unfinished: Ernie's Secret examines Ernest Withers's simultaneous work as a civil rights photographer and FBI informant during the 1960s.

Unfinished: Ernie's Secret | E4 Fayette County examines how Black voter registration in Fayette County, Tennessee, triggered evictions, economic retaliation, and the Tent City encampment in 1960.

Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret | E3 Two Daughters examines how FBI agent Bill Lawrence and photographer Ernest Withers became connected through Memphis’s civil-rights conflicts.

Unfinished: Ernie's Secret | E1 The Perfect Cover introduces Ernest Withers, a Memphis photographer whose images documented Little Rock, Emmett Till's trial, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the 1968 sanitation strike.

Reporter Mark Paraschia investigates whether Memphis photographer Ernest Withers secretly supplied the FBI with information about civil-rights activists.

Unfinished: Short Creek's bonus AMA brings hosts Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventry together with producer Abigail Keel to answer roughly 50 listener questions about Season 2.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E10 Hallelujah follows Donia Jessup, Elisa Wall, Rob Radley, and Roy Jeffs as Short Creek tests whether democratic institutions and personal relationships can move beyond FLDS rule.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E9 Grassroots in the Desert follows Terrell Musser, Shirley Draper, Donia Jessup, and Elisa Wall as ex-FLDS residents organize after the Department of Justice discrimination case.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E8 Can I Get A Witness?

Unfinished: Short Creek | E7 This Land is Our Land follows the conflict between FLDS believers and ex-believers over homes, land, policing, and community identity.

In Unfinished episode “Short Creek | E6 This One’s for You, Gramsy,” Donia and Joe Jessup describe being shunned for marrying without FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs’s approval.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E5 Answer Them Nothing follows Elisa Wall after leaving the FLDS, learning everyday skills at 18, and reporting that her 12- and 9-year-old sisters had disappeared.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E4 examines how Mormon persecution narratives shaped loyalty to Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E3 Keep Sweet, No Matter What examines how Warren Jeffs turned “keep sweet” from a repeated religious mantra into demands for obedience, school withdrawal, surveillance, and family separation.

Unfinished: Short Creek | E1 The Why Child introduces Short Creek through reporters Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventry and survivor Elisa Wall’s account of FLDS authority.

Unfinished’s “Short Creek | E2 Prophets and Losses” traces how Short Creek shifted from Leroy Johnson’s communal “United Order” toward centralized authority under Rulon Jeffs and Warren Jeffs.

Stephanie Kiryuki moderates a conversation with Taylor Hom, Neil Shea, Ash Sanders, and Sarah Ventry about Unfinished: Deep South and the upcoming season, Short Creek.

Unfinished: Deep South | E10 The Things We Haven’t Seen investigates the 1954 killing of Isidore Banks, a World War I veteran and Arkansas landowner who was found chained to a tree and burned.

Lena Williams meets Vera Simonetti after a delayed 2010 graveside ceremony for her grandfather, Isidore Banks, who was lynched in Marion, Arkansas.

Unfinished: Deep South | E8 follows Taylor Hom and Neil Shea’s search for who lynched Isidore Banks, a 59-year-old Arkansas farmer, World War I veteran, businessman, and former owner of nearly 1,000 acres.

Unfinished Deep South | E7 The Stepdaughter follows journalists Neil Shea and Taylor Hom as they locate Julie, the eight-year-old stepdaughter connected to Andrew Anderson’s 1963 killing in Marion, Arkansas.

Unfinished Deep South: Episode 6, "The House Painter," investigates Sam Burns after Rosalind O'Neill says he drunkenly claimed to have killed Isidore Banks.

Unfinished: Deep South | E5 A Very American Crime examines how lynching was defined, organized, and used to preserve racial and economic hierarchy in the United States.

Unfinished: Deep South | E4 White Memories examines the 1954 lynching of Isidore Banks in Marion, Arkansas, whose body was chained to a tree and burned.

Unfinished: Deep South | E3 Family Ties traces Isidore Banks from his 1895 birth in Rome, Georgia, through his family's move to Crittenden County, Arkansas.

Unfinished: Deep South | E2 The High Sheriff investigates how Sheriff Cecil Goodwin’s power in Crittenden County may have intersected with Isidore Banks’s lynching and land loss.

Unfinished: Deep South | E1 Isadore Banks reconstructs the life of Isidore Banks, a wealthy African-American farmer and business owner in Marion, Arkansas, who was lynched in 1954.