This is a preview audio clip for a longer interview on WTSQ! We will post it on Monday, 2/20

It's all about the bread in Iran

"Part of your identity in Iran is your family...you grow up really valuing how you can make their lives better." 

Sounds like West Virginia. But Shiva Shafii is talking about Iran.

Shiva was born and raised in West Virginia; and she is also an Iranian American. In this conversation with WTSQ's Laura Harbert Allen, she talks about what it means to have an identity rooted in both places.

Shiva Shafii on Iran, West Virginia, and identity

Ray Garnett plays the viola in the West Virginia Youth Symphony. In this short piece, he describes how he came to choose the instrument.

Ray Garnett

WTSQ's Laura Harbert Allen and Dan Taylor gathered stories from several people who attended a March 16 town hall meeting in South Charleston, West Virginia. Sen. Joe Manchin fielded a range of questions - on the affordable care act (ACA), clean water and the environmental future of West Virginia; the opiod crisis, legalization of marijuana, and the future of coal mining jobs in West Virginia.

Voices from a West Virginia Town Hall

Charlestonian David Epp shares his love of community radio station WTSQ.

WTSQ Story: David Epp

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