BurghCast

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Latest Episodes

Secrets of Kennywood Park
April 08, 2022

If you grew up in the Pittsburgh area, chances are good you spent lots of childhood (and adult) time at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin. The park has for many generations been a favorite destination fo

Let’s Go to the Drive-In with Shawn Israel
April 08, 2022

Many drive-in theaters used to dot Pittsburgh's landscape: the Wexford Starlite, Blue Dell and Camp Horne to name just a few. Most of them have since disappeared. In this episode of BurghCast, Shawn I

Pittsburgh’s Legendary Green Man
April 08, 2022

His story has been a scary Pittsburgh urban legend for generations: the man known as Charlie No-Face or the Green Man. The story differs from neighborhood to neighborhood, but one thing stays the same

Yolanda Avram Willis
April 08, 2022

Yolanda Avram Willis is a longtime Pittsburgh native and author who lived in secrecy as a Jewish child in Greece during World War II. She and her family members were protected by Greek Christians (Rig

John Oliver
July 04, 2019

John Oliver is a Pittsburgh native who has been singing, writing songs and playing piano and keyboards virtually all his life. During the early 1980s, the Carlynton High School graduate was part of a band called Endless Summer that he formed with severa