Civil Rights Espionage

Hour 1: In the 1950s and ’60s, Mississippi developed a secret spy agency charged with preserving segregation. We’ll talk this hour about the impact of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement.

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Religious Escape

Hour 2: We’ll talk to Leah Vincent this hour about being rejected by her family when she sought to embrace the wider world, which she chronicles in her memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood.

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Clean Your Plate

Hour 2: We’ll find out this hour how processed foods have nudged nature off the shelves and how we can reverse the trend with Jeannie Marshall, author of The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me About Why Children Need Real Food.

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