Display list of Sub-Categories and the posts they contain, within one main Category

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1. Question was answered on another site.. thank you!
   BTW, the code that accomplished what I needed was:

   $categories =  get_categories('child_of=31');  
   foreach  ($categories as $category) {
       //Display the sub category information using $category values like $category->cat_name
       echo '<h2>'.$category->name.'</h2>';
       echo '<ul>';
   
       foreach (get_posts('cat='.$category->term_id) as $post) {
           setup_postdata( $post );
           echo '<li><a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.get_the_title().'</a></li>';   
       }  
       echo '</ul>';
   }
   

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2. Here is the final code used to create a podcast page out of WP Posts. In case anyone could benefit from it.

   <?php     
       $categories =  get_categories('child_of=31');  
       foreach  ($categories as $category) {
           //Display the sub category information using $category values like $category->cat_name
   
           // display category image, if one exists - place image in /images/podcast_images/ dir  
           $cat_img = '';
           if(get_bloginfo("url") .'/wp-content/images/podcast_images/' . $category->slug . '.jpg' != ' ') {$cat_img = '<img class="podcast_category_image" src="'.get_bloginfo("url") .'/wp-content/images/podcast_images/' . $category->slug . '.jpg" />';} 
   
          echo '<h2 class="podcast_h2">'.$cat_img.$category->name.'</h2>'; 
           // start a list for the podcasts
           echo '<ul class="podcast_series">';
           foreach (get_posts('orderby=post_date&category='.$category->term_id) as $post) {
               setup_postdata( $post );
               // format date
               $my_date = mysql2date('F j<sup>S</sup>, Y', $post->post_date);
   
               // load the custom fields for this post, if they have content
               if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Speaker', true)){ 
                   $speaker_name = '<div class="speaker"><strong>Speaker: </strong>'. get_post_meta($post->ID, "Speaker", true).'</div>';
               } else {
                   $speaker_name = '';
               } 
               if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Scripture', true)){ 
                   $scripture = '<div class="scripture"><strong>Scripture: </strong>'. get_post_meta($post->ID, "Scripture", true).'</div>';
               } else {
                   $scripture = '';
               } 
               // echo out the results into a list item
               echo '<li><a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.get_the_title($post->ID).'</a>'.  $speaker_name . $scripture.'<div class="podcast_date"> Recorded On: '. $my_date .'</div></li>';   
           }
           // close the list
           echo '</ul>';
       } ?>
   

   This code will loop through all posts in Category 31 (in this example) and display the sub-categories and their posts. I first created a category for PODCASTS (which is cat. 31) and sub categories within it, for podcast series.

   The result is a list of subcats within our main podcast cat.. and the posts (podcasts) for each of those subcats listed below it:

   Sub cat1
   podcast 1
   podcast 2
   podcast 3

   Sub cat2
   podcast 1
   podcast 2
   podcast 3

   Thanks to all for the help!

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