Hour 1: We’ll talk about this year’s wide-open Oscar race with our panel of film critics.

We’ll talk this hour about the legal battle ahead for the case with former U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson, who is also dean of the University of North Texas School of Law.

Hour 1: David M. Kaplan directs the UNT Philosophy of Food Project, and we’ll talk to him about the challenges facing the food industry.

Hour 2: Black holes absorb anything in their path. We’ll explore just how dangerous they are with Michael Finkel, whose cover story “Star Eater” appears in the March issue of National Geographic.

Hour 1: As part of KERA’s One Crisis Away initiative, we’ll talk this hour about how Dallas will tackle poverty with Larry James, the man Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings chose to lead the city’s poverty task force.

Hour 2: Business leaders say that failing isn’t really such a bad thing if you learn from your mistakes. We’ll find out how to make the most out of failure with Megan McArdle, whose new book is The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.

Hour 1: In the last 500 million years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth. And some scientists are saying we should prepare for the next one. We’ll speak with New Yorker staff writer, Elizabeth Kolbert, about her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

Hour 2: Pope Francis is facing challenges after, Pope Benedict XVI, resigned in 2013. We’ll talk this hour with, Antony Thomas, director of Secrets of the Vatican, a Frontline special that airs Tuesday on KERA TV.

Hour 1: More than 300 journalists have been killed since 2006, the year the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution that was supposed to make their jobs safer. We’ll talk this hour with Eric Matthies, director of Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News.

Hour 2: We’ll talk with Kayla Williams this hour about her experience coming back from war in Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War.