Podcast Explores the Intersection of Faith, Politics and Culture Featuring Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III

BOSTON – (July 10, 2019) --- Exploring the intersection of faith, politics and culture, WGBH today launched All Rev’d Up, a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett G. Price III. The podcast builds on the success of the duo’s weekly radio segment on 89.7 WGBH News’ Boston Public Radio with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.

Each episode of All Rev’d Up will focus on issues related to faith, race, social justice or a prominent national news headline. At a time of divisive discourse on the national stage, hosts Monroe and Price work to find common ground despite arriving at the conversation from different faith perspectives and hailing from different generations and different parts of the country.

Reverend Monroe is an African-American lesbian feminist public theologian, a sought-after speaker, religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Reverend Price, who leads the Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, MA, is a scholar, educator and public speaker whose specialties include the music of the African diaspora, Christian worship and the black Christian experience. They don’t always agree, but they always hear each other out.

Available now, the first episode of All Rev’d Up delves into When They See Us, a Netflix dramatization of the story of the Central Park Five. All Rev’d Up episodes will be released every other Wednesday for an initial run of ten shows. All Rev’d Up is produced by WGBH with support from PRX and available on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and other podcast apps.

All Rev’d Up radio segments first began on WGBH’s 89.7 Boston Public Radio in 2013. The earliest segments featured Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Eugene Rivers. All Rev’d Up has featured Monroe and Price since 2014.

“For years, All Rev’d Up has been one of the most popular segments on Boston Public Radio, one of the most popular shows produced by 89.7 WGBH News,” said Phil Redo, general manager of WGBH Radio. “By offering exclusive All Rev’d Up content in a podcast format, we can share this segment with listeners across the country, exposing a wider audience to the engaging discussions around race, faith, social justice and so much more.”

All Rev’d Up is the latest podcast offering from Boston Public broadcaster WGBH, which continues to grow its investment in the platform. WGBH podcasts include Frontline’s Dispatch, Masterpiece Studio, the GroundTruth Podcast, Molly of Denali, Boston Public Radio, Innovation Hub, The Scrum, Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and On Campus Radio. According to Edison Research, more than 50% of the U.S. population over the age of 12 has listened to a podcast. An estimated 32% of the population were monthly podcast listeners.

“The dramatic growth in the popularity of podcasts across audiences of all ages and backgrounds is a tremendous opportunity for WGBH,” says Bob Kempf, Vice President for Digital Services. “We see podcasts as another important platform for our journalists and storytellers to reach both new and existing audiences with the quality content WGBH is known for.”

About WGBH

WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster and the largest producer of PBS content for TV and the Web, including Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, and more than a dozen other prime-time, lifestyle, and children’s series. WGBH also is a major source of digital content and programs for public radio through PRI/PRX including PRI’s The World and Innovation Hub. As a leader in educational multimedia for the classroom, WGBH supplies content to PBS LearningMedia, a national broadband service for teachers and students. WGBH also is a pioneer in technologies and services that make media accessible to those with hearing or visual impairments. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards and Oscars. Find more information at www.wgbh.org.

About WGBH News
WGBH News is among the fastest growing local news providers in greater Boston and draws on the talent of a multi-platform newsroom that includes 89.7 WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR, television and digital reporting. The WGBH newsroom continues to invest in substantive local coverage and has established dedicated desks for innovation, higher education and politics as well as unique partnerships to expand on that commitment, including with WNYC’s The Takeaway, PRI’s The World, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, and The GroundTruth Project.