Red Nun Talks

Mackenzie shares her journey from a bullied child in Alaska to a celebrated drag performer. She discusses the significance of makeup, practice, and body positivity in drag culture. Highlighting the political roots and mainstream evolution of drag, she advocates for love and acceptance. Mackenzie also covers performance preparation, choreography, and costume importance, while addressing challenges...

April 2025 - ORLEANS, MA - Waste management encompasses much more then recycling. Join host Teresa Martin and guest Meg Morris from the Brewster Waste Management and Recycling Commission to find out about the new TEN Rs - starting with "Rethink."

December 2025 - Celebrate the holidays with a local read! Orleans author Candace Hammond and Teresa Martin talk "Hallmark holidays," writing from a Cape Cod viewpoint, and Hammond's new book Christmas in Cranberry Harbor.

September 2024 - CAPE COD, MA - To celebrate Constitution Day on September 17, host Teresa Martin sat down with Rosemary Shields from the League of Women Voters Cape Cod, Voter Service Committee to learn more about this foundational - and living - document and what it means every day.

August 2024 - In this episode (also available as a podcast on Spotify and iTunes!) we visit with Melissa Ludke, author of the new book Locker Room Talk: A Women's Struggle to Get Inside, which details her 1978 lawsuit for equal access for all reporters to Major League Baseball.

Red Nun discusses housing on the Cape with the executive director and deputy director of the Cape Cod Commission.

 We talk classical music, clarinets, and the concept of open mic playing for classical musicians with Monika Veresh, founder of Cape Cod's Open Mic Classical monthly music series.   https://www.lowercapenews.org/red-nun-talks

Guest Darrin Tangeman joins Red Nun Talks host Teresa Martin to explore how Truro's challenges over voting and town meeting reflect issues across the Cape and Islands. Available in video and as a podcast at your favorite podcast location. For Lower Cape News reporting about Truro's much-rescheduled special town meeting  https://www.lowercapenews.org/truro-tension

As Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley's term reaches its first anniversary, Red Nun Talks host Teresa Martin checks in with her to see what has changed under the oversight of the office's first new leadership in more than two decades — and how treatment and rehabilitation of mental health and substance abuse plays an ever-growing role.

In this episode of Red Nun Talks, host Teresa Martin talks with architect Peter Haig and musician and clerk of the works Paul Tingley share the design thinking behind Arts Empowering Life's Newest performing arts center.  This unique space, opened in August and is nestled in the woods, on the Brewster-Orleans line.   More Here: https://www.lowercapenews.org/red-nun-talks

The town of Orleans has its first new town manager in more than quarter century. In this episode of Red Nun Talks, host Teresa Martin gets to know Kim Newman and how she sees her role on Cape Cod.

Host Teresa Martin to learn about jazz on Cape Cod, the Jazz Jam, Jazz in the Schools,  and the Provincetown Jazz Fest with musician and Provincetown Jazz Fest founder Bart Weisman.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and the Red Nun Talks  with Diane Santoro, Vice President Behavioral Health Integration at Bay Cove Human Services about: Cape Cod's newest mental health options, the mobile crisis support team, and why mental health matters.

Teresa Martin and guest Dick Golden, host of Siriux XM Real Jazz explore the uniquely American form of music and its history on the Cape -- including Storyville in Harwich and Ella Fitzgerald's near Cape residency.