WKMS Documentary

In the latest installment of the WKMS documentary series focusing on regional history and culture, VEEP: The Life and Times of Alben Barkley, producer…

What makes a person voluntarily step into the middle of one of the most controversial and contentious issues of modern times? And what makes them…

The production explores the history and mystery of western Kentucky’s early 19th century iron industry and how one of the men behind it, William Kelly,…

Click here for the complete audioExplore the mystery surrounding the innovation that made the industrial might of America and the United Kingdom possible…

This documentary originally aired in 2011 and was revised in 2017.An hour-long WKMS News production about the Union and Confederate confrontations,…

WKMS News presents a new documentary: Living on the Line: Poverty in Western Kentucky.Living on the Line tells the story of three families, each making…

Join us Sunday, March 30 at 9 a.m. for the story of Irvin Cobb: Back Home.Irvin Cobb's name can be found throughout western Kentucky. It graces a bridge,…

Debuting Sunday, September 1 at 9 amThe words "Kentucky Coal" often summon images of the blackened faces of miners emerging from the dark pits of the…

Murray State’s NPR station, 91.3 WKMS presents the first program in its new “Sounds Good Documentary Series” with the airing of West Kentucky High Iron:…