The Virginian-Pilot Spelling Bee is always an exciting time at WHRO as our studio fills with a crowd of local spelling champions all competing for first place. You can see the competition live on Saturday, February 16.

The Virginia Stage Company is bring The Secret Garden to the Botanical Gardens this weekend. Hear Mal Vincent's recollection of how the show made it to Broadway and won three Tony's in 1991.

Sean McConnell takes an artesian’s approach to his new album “Secondhand Smoke’ crafting each song himself, playing most of the instruments and using his years of songwriting experience to create modern folk music that is instantly relatable

On February 6, a very unique opera happened at the Williamsburg Regional Library. Opera in Williamsburg teamed up with Opera Piccola of Israel to present a one-woman operatic version of The Diary of Anne Frank, performed in Hebrew with English supertitles.

WHRO’s CEO and President Bert Schmidt was recently elected as Professional Vice Chair of the board of America’s Public Television Stations.

This week in Mal’s World, Mal Vincent talks about meeting Noel Langley who wrote the screenplay for The Wizard of Oz and who escaped to peaceful Sandbridge to avoid the Hollywood swells.