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NEXT is a weekly radio show and podcast based at Connecticut Public Radio and powered by the New England News Collaborative.

Our laboratory is all of New England — one of America's oldest places — at a time of change.

Through original reporting and interviews, we ask important questions about the issues we explore: where are we now? How did we get here? And what's next?

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Dorothy Buchanan's daughter, Beth, serves tea, while Dorothy Murray's daughter, Bonnie Parsons (third from left), sits with the three 100-year-old Dots. (Rebecca Conley / Maine Public)

Episode 182: Northern New England Is The Oldest Place In The Country; A Senior Home With No Rules

January 23, 2020

Redmen large on the floor as the cheerleaders perform during halftime of the Killingly High School varsity basketball team on January 14, 2020. (Joe Amon/Connecticut Public)

Episode 181: The Town That Reinstated The “Redmen” Mascot; A Mother Helps Her Son With Severe Autism

January 16, 2020

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a Newport Town Hall Breakfast at the Newport Opera House in Newport, N.H. Sanders says he raised more than $34.5 million in the final three months of 2019, showing that a recent heart attack hasn't slowed the Vermont senator's fundraising prowess with the start of the Democratic presidential primaries looming. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, File)

Episode 180: 2020 Is A Big Year For New England Politicians; Coal Still Powers Our Electricity

January 9, 2020

This species of coral, called "Astrangia poculata," may hold genetic secrets that could help tropical corals threatened by climate change. (Patrick Skahill/Connecticut Public Radio)

Episode 179: Coral Could Hold Secrets To Fighting Climate Change; Female Punk Rockers

January 2, 2020

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