Dr. Lisa Belisle, host of Radio Maine, in the studio

Radio Maine

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Conversations from the Radio Maine archive, organized so you can find what matters to you.

Radio Maine is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Lisa Belisle, recorded at her Maine studio and produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery since 2021. More than 370 conversations live in the archive. They cover what it takes to build a creative life, a clinical practice, a business, a public health career, or a body of writing in this place.

The topics below are doorways. If you're new to the show, start with one of the three picks below. If you already know what you want to follow, jump straight to its topic page for the episodes, the guests and the resources each conversation named.

For new listeners

A place to start

Three episodes to start with, depending on what brought you here. A painter, a public health director, and a civic leader.

Watch Radio Maine: One to Watch: J. Rodney Dennis, a Contemporary Painter Making Waves in Classical Realism

One to Watch: J. Rodney Dennis, a Contemporary Painter Making Waves in Classical Realism

With · October 21, 2021

If you come to the show through the discipline of making something.

J. Rodney Dennis is a contemporary painter working in the classical realism tradition, represented by the Portland Art Gallery. For years, he flew out of Washington DC on Thursday nights to spend his weekends at the Academy of Realist Art in Boston, then home Sunday for Monday morning. That kind of commitment shows up in the paintings: precision that approaches the photographic without losing the hand. A representative Radio Maine conversation about what it actually takes to build a serious studio practice over years.

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Watch Radio Maine: Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness: Lisa Sockabasin

Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness: Lisa Sockabasin

With Lisa Sockabasin · Episode 208 · January 25, 2025

If you come to the show through community care and place.

Lisa Sockabasin directs Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness, the organization serving Maine's Wabanaki tribal communities. The conversation traces the specific work of building a health system rooted in sovereignty and cultural fluency, and what broader public health can learn from a model that begins with land and language before it reaches for clinical tools.

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Watch Radio Maine: Maine's Newest National Monument: Giovanna Gray Lockhart Fights for Frances Perkins

Maine's Newest National Monument: Giovanna Gray Lockhart Fights for Frances Perkins

With Giovanna Gray Lockhart · Episode 207 · January 18, 2025

If you come to the show through Maine itself.

Giovanna Gray Lockhart, executive director of the Frances Perkins Center, talks about the fifty-seven-acre Newcastle homestead where the first woman to hold a United States cabinet position spent her girlhood summers. The conversation traces Perkins's line from Newcastle to Social Security and places her alongside Margaret Chase Smith and Olympia Snowe in a living lineage of Maine women in public life.

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Five topics across the archive

Each topic gathers the conversations Radio Maine has had on a subject. Pick the one that catches you.

Visual Art on Radio Maine
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Visual Art

133 episodes

Painters, photographers, sculptors, and the gallery directors and curators who shape Maine's visual art world.
Craft and Media on Radio Maine
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Craft and Media

12 episodes

Furniture, jewelry, textile, fashion, illustration, audio, film, and music programs. Makers and time-based-media practitioners.
Medicine on Radio Maine
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Medicine

34 episodes

How medicine is practiced and changed in Maine. Clinicians, public health leaders, translational researchers.
Language and Ideas on Radio Maine
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Language and Ideas

21 episodes

Writers, editors, communicators, historians, philosophers, and curators on how language carries meaning and how ideas get made.
Wellbeing and Practice on Radio Maine
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Wellbeing and Practice

20 episodes

Daily practice, embodied health, and the particular texture of wellbeing in a coastal state.
Business and Community on Radio Maine
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Business and Community

72 episodes

Founders, executives, civic leaders, and nonprofit directors whose work shapes Maine.

About Radio Maine

What is Radio Maine?

Radio Maine is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Dr. Lisa Belisle, a board-certified family physician who holds an MD, PhD, MPH, and MBA. The show is recorded at her Maine studio and produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery in Portland, Maine. Since 2021, Radio Maine has published weekly conversations with artists, physicians, writers, entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders whose work connects to Maine.

Who is Dr. Lisa Belisle?

Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family and preventive medicine physician whose clinical work integrates Western medicine with acupuncture, Chinese medicine, mindfulness-based stress reduction, qigong, and herbalism. She is the host of Radio Maine, the author of The Bountiful Path on Substack, and co-hosts A Healthy Conversation on Newsradio WGAN with Dr. Jeffrey Barkin.

Where is Radio Maine recorded?

Radio Maine is recorded at Dr. Lisa Belisle's Maine studio. The show is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery, located at 154 Middle Street in Portland. The gallery represents many of the artists who have appeared on Radio Maine, including James Mattison, Emma Ballou, Joan Fischer, and Carlos Gamez de Francisco.

What topics does Radio Maine cover?

Radio Maine's archive is organized into six topics: Visual Art (painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers); Craft and Media (filmmakers, audio producers, makers, designers); Medicine (clinicians, researchers, public health); Language and Ideas (writers, editors, historians, teachers of language); Wellbeing and Practice (daily attention, integrative health, embodied practice); and Business and Community (entrepreneurs, executives, civic and nonprofit leaders).

Who is featured on the Remembering page?

The Remembering page gathers Radio Maine conversations with Maine creatives who have since passed: painter Philip Barter, painter and author Carol Bass, art historian Martica Sawin, and abstract landscape painter Ann Sklar. Each entry pairs a short biographical note with the original episode.

How often does Radio Maine publish new episodes?

Radio Maine publishes weekly. New episodes are released every Monday and made available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Podbean, and Podchaser.

Who can be a guest on Radio Maine?

Radio Maine features people whose work shapes Maine: artists, physicians, writers, entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders. Guest suggestions are welcome through the Be a Guest page. Dr. Belisle reads every submission.

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Remembering

Conversations with Maine creatives we are remembering. Their voices remain on Radio Maine.

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