Author: Teresa Wills

Teresa is the host of West Virginia Morning and Morning Edition, heard Monday-Friday from 6 a.m.-9 a.m. When she’s not on the air, Teresa produces the traffic logs used by radio hosts for the program schedule, promos and donor announcements. She also does some voice promotion work on our television channels. Teresa grew up in St. Albans, West Virginia and graduated from West Virginia State University with a degree in Communications.

Latin American Storytelling on Radio Ambulante

In this one-hour special, Radio Ambulante presents the best English-language stories from its first season with reporting from North Carolina, Chile and Mexico.

Tune in for Radio Ambulante, with host Martina Castro, Thursday night May 8, at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Featured stories:

  • The Forbidden Word – This story takes place in Durham, North Carolina. In 2000, after an itinerant life with his mother in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina, Reza Salazar landed in the Carolinas. As he struggled to adapt and learn the customs of his new home, there was one word his new friends told him he could never, ever say.
  • Phantom Team – Back in 1973, the Chilean coup cast a pall over the entire country, as the Chilean military detained anybody suspected of opposing the dictatorship. Thousands were disappeared and tortured and killed. Yet in the middle of all that, life went on in some bizarre ways. A few weeks after the coup, Chile’s national soccer team faced a play-off game in Santiago against the Soviet Union. The winner would go to the 1974 World Cup, in Germany. The loser would stay home. The game would take place in the very stadium where prisoners were detainted and tortured.
  • Delfín Vigil on growing up in the Mission – The son of a Jehovah’s Witness, who abruptly renounced the faith, moved the family to the suburbs and changed their lives completely.
  • Felipe Montes – Felipe Montes had lived in the US illegally for almost a decade when he got deported back to Mexico. The deportation separated him from his wife and kids still in the US, and landed the children in foster care.

America's Test Kitchen Talks to Author of "In Memory's Kitchen"

On America’s Test Kitchen, we speak to Cara De Silva, the editor of In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin, a cookbook written by starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Theresienstadt. Find out how these brave women used their culinary heritage as an act of defiance by talking about food and trading recipes.

“for these women when they were doing this it was a form of resisting psychologically, of reinforcing who they were and they were using recipes as defensive weapons…”

This special America’s Test Kitchen airs Thursday, May 1, at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Also in this hour:
—Call-Ins with Host Christopher Kimball and Culinary Expert Bridget Lancaster: Chris and Bridget take calls from listeners and answer their cooking questions.

—Taste Test with Jack Bishop: Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of frozen French fries.

—Gopnik on Food: Food Writer Adam Gopnik talks food with host Christopher Kimball about the end of the Supermarket era.

—Recipe Challenge: Test cook Dan Souza uncovers the secrets to making an old fashioned favorite, Chuck Roast in Foil.

Poetry on State of the Re:Union

Hear the latest radio special in honor of National Poetry Month Thursday, April 24 at 9 p.m. 

In addition to being a public radio host, Al Letson is also a poet, playwright, and actor.

In this hour-long program,  Letson will explore all facets of poetry. Poets from all over the country will speak about the craft, the lifestyle, and the resurgence of poems.

Heroin's Path on Reveal

This week on our new investigative journalism show, “Reveal,” we learn about the abuse of heroin, immigrant farmworkers, and teen prisoners and animals, including:

– An investigation by WBEZ/Chicago and The Chicago Reader explores the path heroin takes from Ciudad Juarez to Chicago and across the Midwest, where it supplies dealers, addicts and teens.

– A look at the solitary confinement of teens, many of whom are unconvicted, at Rikers Island in NYC.

– A check-in on the impact of the opiate prescription story CIR broke on the first Reveal pilot and the over prescription practices of the VA. What’s happened in the wake of a congressional hearing held within a week of that broadcast?

We also look at the questionable relationship between Hollywood film productions and the American Humane Association on protecting animals on film sets. The Hollywood Reporter produced a powerful examination of the topic and we talk with the writer who went after the story.

And we hear from a female farm worker on her experiences after she came forward to speak about the sexual abuse in the fields.

Reveal, airs Thursday April 17, at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

Over-Prescription of Opiates to Veterans on Reveal

Reveal is a new investigative program from the The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. In this pilot: an exclusive story about the volume and impact stemming from the VA’s over-prescripton of opiates to addicted veterans; the attorney behind many of the worst for-profit charities; bodycams for cops; and how one reporter helped one man prove his brother had been abused at a state mental facility. Hosted by Al Letson from State of the Re:Union and WJCT, Jacksonville.

Reveal airs Thursday, April 10 at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public Radio.

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