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  • KERA Think Rundown – Week of 5/02/11

    Program Alert: April 29, 2011 Think airs Monday to Thursday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. on KERA-FM. Podcasts and streamed video are available online at www.kera.org/think. Monday, 5/02 Noon:  Remember Little House on the Prairie? Our guest this hour certainly does. We’ll talk with writer and editor Wendy McClure about retracing the journey and […]

  • The Museum of the American Railroad and KERA Celebrate National Train Day

    For IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  April 28, 2010 Dallas/Fort Worth – The Museum of the American Railroad and North Texas’ public broadcasting station, KERA, partner on a free children’s event in celebration of National Train Day on Saturday, May 7, 2011. The free event will last between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m and will […]

  • Ultra-Everything!

    What does it take to go the distance when the distance is over 3,000 miles? We’ll talk this hour with Marshall Ulrich who recounts his incredible experiences in the new book “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America” (Avery, 2011).

  • Language & Identity

    How do our beliefs about language affect our identities and impressions of others? We’ll spend this hour with Robert Lane Greene, international correspondent for The Economist and author of the book “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011).

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    Kathleen Gibson, Citibank

    The veteran banking dynamo talks about navigating financial crisis, and how to grow commercial banking in Texas.

  • The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher

    One year later, what do we know about the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the effort to plug the well? We’ll talk this hour with Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author of the new book “A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to […]

  • The Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest

    Which is the fiercest creature in today’s woods and how close do they get to our towns and cites? You might be surprised. We’ll talk this hour with poet and American University of Paris instructor Jeffrey Greene, whose new book is “The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest” (University of Virginia Press, 2011).

  • The Roots of Religious Uncertainty

    What happens when religion, science, reason and doubt collide? We’ll find out this hour with Northwestern University Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature Christopher Lane. His new book is “The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty” (Yale University Press, 2011).

  • Pakistan: A Hard Country

    Which country has almost 200 million citizens, half a million soldiers, nuclear weapons and a deteriorating political system? We’ll explore Pakistan this hour with journalist Anatol Lieven, who was in the country last month. His new book is “Pakistan: A Hard Country” (Public Affairs, 2011).