Local voices, campus stories, books, and hoops.
WCTV Podcasting is a community-channel podcast feed with rotating series, from Merrimack College conversations to author interviews and basketball talk. Its episodes feel local, conversational, and lightly produced, with guests explaining the lived details behind campuses, books, illness, and sports careers.
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WCTV Podcasting is a broad community-studio feed built around local voices, rotating series, and long-running conversation. It does not move like a single polished franchise. It feels more like a public-access audio and video shelf, where student life, books, health, sports, and local identity can sit beside one another. Talk It with Brockett gives the feed its college-life lane. In those episodes, Alana Brockett talks with friends and classmates from Merrimack College about friendship, freshman-year adjustment, sorority culture, senior-year pressure, commuting, mental health, campus clubs, and the way college circles change over time. The pacing is casual and familiar. A conversation with Ava explains Theta Phi Alpha big-and-little dynamics, formal recruitment, spring recruitment, and the funny disconnect between sorority language and family language. Episodes with Leah Beliveau turn more reflective, moving from graduation and personal growth into an accessible explanation of ALS and why blue cornflowers represent hope. Book Stew gives the feed another register entirely. Its author interviews are slower, more literary, and openly curious about how books hold place, memory, family, and history. Celeste Mohammed is discussed through Trinidad and Ever Since We Small. Emily Ross is introduced through Swallowtail, Quincy, and the changing character of a city outside Boston. Annette Binder appears in a conversation about Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, dementia, caregiving, terminal lucidity, and the possible distinction between mind and brain. Lost in Translation brings in sports talk from the WCTV studios in Wilmington, Mass. The DeJuan Robinson episode centers basketball as vocation, habit, and daily passion, especially as it connects to kids, training, and life after a professional career. Across the feed, the appeal is breadth rather than one narrow promise. WCTV Podcasting is for listeners who enjoy local conversation with minimal distance between guest and interviewer.
Made for: For listeners who like community media, college-life conversations, author interviews, and grounded sports talk. It especially suits people drawn to local voices and informal guest-led storytelling.
What sets it apart: The feed’s strength is its range: Merrimack College friendships, Book Stew author conversations, and WCTV studio basketball interviews all share the same channel. It feels closer to a community archive than a single-topic podcast.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Annette Binder links dementia caregiving, memoir, and careful questions about mind and brain.
Annette Binder returns to Book Stew for a measured conversation about Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, her memoir about watching her mother live with dementia.
A loose sports chat that moves from fake feud banter to pitching, catching, and team chemistry.
On The Mat episode four keeps a loose, conversational rhythm as Jacob Doherty, Sam Perkins, and Nolan Joyce turn a fake feud into a running joke.
A local business conversation that treats partnership, pressure, and barbecue with equal seriousness.
Erica's turn at WCTV's new podcast room gives this small-business story its shape, with Rob Witten and Jane Lowe of Ping in Lowell bringing the talk back to what it takes to run a company and a family at the same time.
Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
Erica, co-owner of Code One Barbecue, hosts solo as her husband Sean tends to a sick child.
Co-hosts Jacob Doherty and an unnamed host welcome guests Sam Perkins and Nolan Joyce to settle a lighthearted 'beef' on episode four of On The Mat.
On Book Stew Episode 155, Deesha Philyaw tells Eileen how she turned a story about a pastor’s wife into a satirical novel about a Black megachurch.
Talk It with Brockett Episode 6 features Alana and Ava Parshall discussing their Theta Phi Alpha big-little relationship at Merrimack College, which began after matching phone cases during speed dating.
Leah Beliveau returns to Talk It With Brockett to discuss ALS, its symptoms, and the hope for a cure.
Book Stew host interviews Trinidadian author Celeste Mohammed about Ever Since We Small, a novel shaped by Trinidad’s Spanish, French, African, Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, Syrian, and Lebanese histories.
Talk It with Brockett Episode 4 features Leah Beliveau discussing her growth from a difficult first semester in August 2022 to feeling supported at Merrimack in February 2026.
Host introduces local author Emily Ross and her murder mystery novel Swallowtail, set in Quincy, Massachusetts.
In WCTV Podcasting's Book Stew Episode 145, Eileen interviews Annette Binder about Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, a memoir assembled from short pieces about her mother's dementia.
Alana Brockett interviews her friend Patrick Melavin about their shared experiences at Merrimack College, reflecting on the fun of freshman year and the transition to adulthood.
Bobby Martin interviews former URI basketball star Dawan Robinson about his lifelong passion for basketball and his current work with youth.
Three brothers from Billerica discuss being teammates on their high school basketball team for the first time.
Former Siena College head coach Carmen Maciariello discusses his lifelong relationship with basketball and the love of the game.
Erica hosts a solo episode of Through Fire and Oak, interviewing Rob Whitten and Jane Lo, owners of Ping Coffee in Lowell, about their veteran- and woman-owned small business startup.