{"podcast":{"title":"With Good Reason","slug":"with-good-reason-1041442","podcast_index_feed_id":1041442,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/WithGoodReasonRadio","website_url":"http://www.withgoodreasonradio.org","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-OCyBe3Abdo1Lw56V-jGz7Dg-original.jpg","author":"Virginia Humanities (withgoodreason@virginia.edu)","episode_count":454,"summary":"Each week scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, religion, and business through lively discussion with host Sarah McConnell. From the controversies over slave reparations and global warming, to the unique worlds of comic books and wine-making, With Good Reason is always surprising, challenging and fun!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T08:20:36.330210+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/with-good-reason-1041442"},"episode":{"title":"The Grand Mothers","slug":"the-grand-mothers","published_at":"2026-02-05T23:07:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/with-good-reason-1041442/the-grand-mothers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/with-good-reason-1041442","url":"https://soundcloud.com/withgoodreason/the-grand-mothers","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2261042723-withgoodreason-the-grand-mothers.mp3","summary":"Lucille Clifton survived cancer four times. She maintained that her mother would not let her die until she had finished her work on Earth. That work? Writing poetry. A year before she passed away, Lucille Clifton was honored at the Furious Flower Poetry Conference at James Madison University where she spoke to With Good Reason’s Sarah McConnell about inheriting her mother’s rage and commitment to writing. And: A whole lot can happen in a Southampton County minute. Latorial Faison’s Pulitzer Prize nominated poetry collection Nursery Rhymes in Black animates the education of her rural Virginia childhood. Later in the show: In 1941, Remica Bingham Risher's paternal great-great-great grandmother Minnie and maternal grandmother Mary never met— but they had been within one mile of each other under extraordinary circumstances. Minnie was interviewed for the Works Progress Administration’s Slave Narratives project on her Petersburg front porch. Just down the road, Mary was taken to the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane for “water in the brain” – what we know now as postpartum depression. Nearly a century later, in Remica Bingham-Risher’s Room Swept Home, they meet.","meta_description":"Lucille Clifton survived cancer four times. She maintained that her mother would not let her die until she had finished her work on Earth. That work? Writ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3119,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/with-good-reason-1041442/episodes/the-grand-mothers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/with-good-reason-1041442/the-grand-mothers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}