Hour 2: Breaking a hip can lead to a tough recovery for people over 50. Dr. Alan Jones and Dr. William Tucker join us to talk about our KERA Breakthroughs series “The Broken Hip.”
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Friends In The Right Places
Hour 1: Wall Street’s influence on the White House and vice versa has left its mark on the economy over time. This hour we’ll speak with Nomi Prins about the in’s and outs of the relationship between the two as described in her book, “All the President’s Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power.”
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They're The Bee's Knees
Hour 2: All kids fear the dreaded bee sting. But the truth is that bees should be more afraid of us.
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Murder And Mercy In Texas
Hour 1: The shooting at a Dallas mini-mart shortly after 9/11 changed the lives of two people. New York Times reporter Anand Giridharadas joins the show to recount the incident and aftermath in his new book, “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas.”
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Life Beyond The Border
Hour 2: Expanding its reach across America, the U.S. Border Patrol now protects the nation in a variety of ways like never before. We’ll speak with Todd Miller about the increase in service and his book, “Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security.”
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For The Children
Hour 1: Children in impoverished countries can share some of the most persevering stories. Caryl M. Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, shares some of stories she heard from her new book “I Believe in ZERO: Learning From the World’s Children.”
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Reproductive Learning
Hour 2: Inspecting other species’ sex organs is a starting place for some biologists studying evolution. This hour we’ll speak with Menno Schilthuizen about his new book, “Nature’s Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity and Ourselves.”
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Beethoven in Dallas
Hour 1: This spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s music with three weeks of performances. We’ll talk this hour about Beethoven’s lasting impact on both classical music and pop culture with DSO music director Jaap van Zweden and concertmaster Alex Kerr.
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Earth's Climate Problems
Hour 2: Climate change is always on the political agenda and this hour we’ll talk with Patrick Allitt, who wrote “A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism” about how we’ve approached the issues and the handled problems.
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Breaking Down The Home-Rule Charter
Hour 1: We’ll talk this hour about the pros and cons of Dallas ISD becoming a home-rule district with mayor Mike Rawlings and school board member Bernadette Nutall.
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How Will We Feed?
Hour 2: It’s projected that the world will have around 9 billion mouths to feed in 2050. We’ll talk this hour with Jonathan Foley, whose piece “Feeding 9 Billion” in next month’s issue of National Geographic explores how humans will produce enough food.
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Equality For Everyone
Hour 1: This hour we speak with New York Times reporter Jo Becker, who wrote a book detailing the marriage equality initiative that started with California’s Proposition 8.
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