Charlie Shelton-Ormond
Podcast ProducerCharlie Shelton-Ormond is an award-winning podcast producer for WUNC. His fascination with audio storytelling came at a young age, listening to books-on-tape in his parents’ car and eventually picking up a microphone and asking people to share their own stories.
Before podcasting, Charlie worked as a producer for WUNC's daily live program “The State of Things,” where he was able to bring his love for North Carolina to the airwaves with shows on popular culture, state politics, and more. Charlie then stepped into on-demand audio and produced for the long-running American history podcast “BackStory.” In 2020, he began building up WUNC’s podcast portfolio and has produced special programs like PAULI and Behind the Lines.
When he isn’t editing audio, Charlie likes to host a weekly music show, get into trouble with his dog Lily, and fire up an old movie.
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The Carolinas are the only two states that ban all government employees from unionizing.
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One man’s fascinating and unusual legacy in a Southern town is challenging how we talk about the Civil Rights Movement.
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For decades, the epicenter of America’s Black middle class was in a midsize city in central North Carolina. Now that it's gone, what legacy does it leave?
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We explore Southern communities transformed by forces beyond their control.
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Stanton, Tennessee is a microcosm of the powerful new economics at play in states throughout the American South.
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When you turn on the faucet, you really don’t want to think twice about the quality of the water coming out. But that’s the reality for millions of people across the South.
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For more than half a century, the citizens of Richmond, Kentucky lived in the shadow of something extraordinary and terrible: an arsenal of chemical weapons.
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In 1988, two armed Native American men occupied a newspaper office in a small North Carolina town. 35 years later, we look at the legacy of the takeover of The Robesonian.
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Influential, exploitative and ever-evolving, join us as we look between the bars of Southern prison music.