What are the big stories that you haven’t been hearing in the news this year? We’ll talk this hour with Blake Hounshell, web editor at Foreign Policy Magazine. The piece “Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008” is available at foreignpolicy.com.
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Do you struggle with spelling? You’re not alone. We’ll explore the interesting history of English spelling this hour with David Wolman, whose new book is “Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling” (Collins, 2008).
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How will you celebrate the holidays this year? Will you max out your credit cards buying gifts for everyone you know? Will you bake cookies and make your gifts by hand? We’ll talk this hour with Dallas Morning News columnist and online opinion editor – and self-described “frugalista” – Rod Dreher and Yes Magazine Executive Editor, Sarah Van Gelder.
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What did your favorite authors sound like? The British Library and the BBC have just released a series of rare recordings and interviews with dozens of British and American writers called “The Spoken Word.” We’ll speak with the British Library’s Richard Fairman this hour and hear some of those recordings.
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How might a proposed plan to connect the Dallas Arts District to the Katy Trail for pedestrians and cyclists improve transportation options in the city? We’ll talk this hour with Eric Van Steenburg, executive director of the Friends of the Katy Trail and Mia Birk, an urban planner and principal of Alta Planning + Design in Portland.
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What is the true nature of religious faith? We’ll get one perspective this hour with former nun Colette Livermore who spent eleven years in Mother Teresa’s order Missionaries of Charity. Her new memoir is “Hope Endures: Leaving Mother Teresa, Losing Faith, and Searching for Meaning” (Free Press, 2008).
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What were the biggest political and news stories of 2008? We’ll talk this evening with Bud Kennedy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and James Ragland of the Dallas Morning News. In the Scene segment, we’ll preview the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Celebration “Stories of Christmas” with chorus director David R. Davidson.
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Can interrogation be non-violent? Our guest this hour, U.S. Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander, believes that more civilized interrogation techniques are more productive and he has the results to prove it. Alexander will join us this hour to discuss his service and his new book “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq” (Free Press, 2008).
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Are you wondering what to serve this holiday season? We’ll talk this hour with cheesemonger Rich Rogers of Scardello Artisan Cheese and sommelier and wine expert Darryl Beeson. We’ll also take your calls and answer your cheese and wine-related questions.
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What strategies should individuals employ to help mitigate global warming? Environmental writer Julia Whitty wants us to take a close look at our plates. Her article “Diet for a Warm Planet” appears in the November/December issue of Mother Jones Magazine.
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What is the impact of a teenage pregnancy on the life of the teen and her family? We’ll spend this hour with KERA reporter Sujata Dand who’s collected the stories of several teens with kids of their own while researching her multi-media project “Boyfriends: Inside the World of Teenagers and Their Relationships.”
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Who are the unknown heroes of the Revolutionary War? According to our guest this hour, City University of New York historian Edwin G. Burrows, they are the thousands of Americans captured by the British during the conflict. He’ll join us this hour to tell their stories. Burrows’ new book is “Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the Revolutionary War” (Basic Books, 2008).
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