Reveal announces new weekly podcast series

Al Letson

The public radio show and podcast Reveal launched a new ongoing podcast series today, “More To The Story With Al Letson,” which features one-on-one interviews between Reveal’s longtime host, Al Letson, and newsmakers and changemakers. Its first episode featured an engaging conversation with Timothy Heaphy, who was the chief investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack, and is out with a new book about the rising threats to American democracy.

“My goal with the show is to discuss topics and perspectives that are too often ignored by other news organizations,” said Letson. “I want to provide our listeners with candid — and sometimes uncomfortable — conversations that force them to rethink what they’ve been hearing, reading or watching.”

The half-hour episodes will be available on Wednesdays in the Reveal podcast feed — free via all major podcast platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Overcast — in addition to Reveal’s website. The show’s editor is Kara McGuirk-Allison, its producer is Josh Sanburn, and its executive producers are Brett Myers and Taki Telonidis. Reveal will also continue its investigative weekly show with Letson as host.

Letson has hosted Reveal since 2015, when it became the nation’s first weekly investigative radio show. He previously created and hosted “State of the Re:Union,” a Peabody Award-winning show that showcased communities where residents were finding creative ways to overcome challenges. He has also hosted the podcast “Errthang,” wrote for several major TV or streaming shows, including AMC’s Moonhaven and AppleTV’s Monarch, and wrote a comic for DC Comics, Mr. Terrific, which will come out in May 2025.

Each week, Reveal reaches nearly 1 million radio listeners across more than 500 stations nationwide, and the podcast is downloaded more than 400,000 times a month. The radio show and podcast is distributed by public media organization PRX. To mark Reveal’s 10th anniversary, the March 1 episode featured snippets of some of its most pivotal stories, including the pilot episode about Iraq War veterans that won a Peabody Award. That initial episode was carried by 150 stations around the country. 

Reveal’s journalism has been recognized with three duPont-Columbia Awards, three national Emmys, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist: in 2020 for reporting about workers’ injuries in Amazon warehouses, in 2019 for an expose about discrimination in the banking industry, and in 2018 for an investigation of drug offenders being sentenced to work camps that were lucrative for private companies. 

Reveal is produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, which also publishes Mother Jones. The Center for Investigative Reporting is a listener and reader-supported nonprofit organization, with offices in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City.