This hour, we’ll talk about what it’s like to care for people at their most vulnerable with Theresa Brown, a practicing nurse and author of “The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives.”
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The Highs And Lows Of U.S. Foreign Alliances
This hour, we’ll talk about the tricky business of working with other nations while maintaining our values with Ted Galen Carpenter, co-author of “Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes.”
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Alcohol And America
We’ll talk about the influence booze has had on our nation with Susan Cheever, author of “Drinking in America: Our Secret History.”
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The Unknown Lady Bird Johnson
This hour, we’ll talk with Betty Boyd Caroli about her new book, “Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President” (Simon & Schuster). Boyd speaks tonight at Highland Park United Methodist Church’s Authors Live! event.
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Reconstructing La Belle
This hour, as we broadcast live from KUT in Austin, we’ll talk about what we’ve learned from the wreckage of La Belle with Peter Fix, who oversaw the ship’s reconstruction for the Bullock Texas State History Museum.
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Our Friend, The Fridge
We’ll talk about how refrigeration has changed the way we eat and improved our overall health – and about what our fridges say about ourselves – with Jonathan Rees.
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MLK’s Last Night
This hour, we’ll talk about what was on the Civil Rights leader’s mind in the hours before his death with actor Hassan El-Amin and director Akin Babatunde, the team behind Dallas Theater Center’s production of “The Mountaintop.”
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Homo Naledi: A New Human Species
This hour, we’ll talk about how the discovery affects our understanding of our evolution with Lee Berger, the paleoanthropologist who led the excavation, as well as Marina Elliott and Hanna Morris, who were also on the team.
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Sam Houston’s Legacy
This hour, we’ll get to know the only American ever elected governor of two states with biographer James. L. Haley.
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Why The Brain Likes Beauty
We’ll talk about why our species developed the arts – and how we came to value them – with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, author of “The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art.”
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New Orleans After Katrina
This hour, we’ll talk about how the city preserved its vibrant culture and recovered from the disaster with Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City.
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Rethinking The Bomb
We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
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