Radio Maine is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Lisa Belisle, featuring interview-based conversations with Maine's artists, entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders. Each episode broadens the listener's view of the state and the people who live, work, and love it. The show is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery.

Who is the host of Radio Maine?

Dr. Lisa Belisle is the host of Radio Maine. She is a board-certified family physician (MD, PhD, MPH, MBA) on the coast of Maine, and brings a clinician's ear and two decades of experience in radio and writing to every conversation.

Where can I listen to Radio Maine?

Radio Maine is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean. New episodes also stream from radiomaine.com. The full feed is at https://radiomaine.podbean.com/feed.xml.

How often does Radio Maine release new episodes?

Radio Maine releases new episodes regularly, typically each week. The latest episode is featured on the home page at radiomaine.com.

How can I be a guest on Radio Maine?

Visit radiomaine.com/be-a-guest to submit a guest request. Lisa welcomes nominations from across Maine's creative, civic, scientific, and business communities.

Dr. Lisa Belisle in the Radio Maine studio

Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

Each week, host Dr. Lisa Belisle sits down with the people who shape the state: entrepreneurs and educators, physicians and artists, community builders and keepers of place. She brings a clinician's ear and two decades in radio and writing to every conversation.

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Broaden your view of Maine. Meet the people who live, work, and love the state.

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Voices from Radio Maine

It doesn't matter if we have the best medicine available and prescribe it, if people will not stay on it and take it, it does no good.

Dr. R. Scott Wright ·Radio Maine →

For me being in the landscape is the greatest source of inspiration. That's why I refuse to take a photograph and then go back to my studio and try to recapture that sense of inspiration that I feel in the actual place.

Matthew Russ ·Radio Maine →

I would rather train them and have them leave than not train them and have them stay.

Colleen Barry ·Radio Maine →

Meet Your Host

Dr. Lisa Belisle

MD · PhD · MPH · MBA

Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.

Recent Conversations

A selection of the most recent guests on Radio Maine.

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September 15, 2026

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What If the Building Is Part of the Treatment? Dr. Stephanie Taylor

September 8, 2026

A hospital that looked dirty helped Dr. Stephanie Taylor question what a healthy environment actually is. While working in Papua New Guinea,…

What Her Mother Taught Her About Breaking the Rules: Artist Marion Wilson

September 1, 2026

Watercolor asks an artist to give up something most of us spend our lives trying to hold onto: control. For Marion Wilson, that willingness…

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In Partnership With

Portland Art Gallery

Radio Maine is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery, Maine's premier destination for contemporary fine art. Visit the gallery at 154 Middle Street in Portland, or explore the work of gallery artists online.

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