Discovering Life and Love in India
May 9, 2011What does it take to really understand a country and the people who live there?
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Yosemite's Superclimbers
May 9, 2011Who are today’s real adventure heroes? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Jenkins whose current National Geographic cover story “Yosemite’s Superclimbers” profiles a few athletes who are pushing the climbing envelope.
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KERA Think Rundown – Week of 5/09/11
May 6, 2011Program Alert: May 6, 2011 Think airs Monday to Thursday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. on KERA-FM. Podcasts are available online at www.kera.org/think. Monday, 5/09 Noon: Who are today’s real adventure heroes? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Jenkins whose current National Geographic cover story “Yosemite’s Superclimbers” profiles a few athletes who are pushing […]
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KERA Airs Programs About Freedom Riders
May 5, 2011For Immediate Release: May 5, 2011 DALLAS/FORT WORTH – On Monday, May 16, 2011, KERA will air Freedom Riders, detailing the historic 1961 civil rights journey through the Deep South, and The Good Fight, chronicling the life of James Farmer, Freedom Ride organizer and Marshall, Texas, native. Freedom Riders is the powerful, harrowing and ultimately […]
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The 17th Century Life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk
May 5, 2011What was life like for the first Native American to graduate Harvard College in 1665?
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Pursuing the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
May 5, 2011Who is Yoshi Kojima? We’ll find out this hour as we explore the lucrative and obscure world of illegal butterfly trafficking with journalist Jessica Speart.
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Big-Time Ventriloquism
May 4, 2011Until Mesquite ventriloquist Terry Fator won the $1 million grand prize on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, ventriloquism may have seemed like a vaudeville act of yesteryear. Mark Goffman pulls back the curtain on the big time ventriloquism industry.
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The 80s Revisited
May 4, 2011How does the recent past inform our preset culture and what was so great about the 1980s anyway?
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The Storm That Swept Mexico
May 3, 2011How did Mexico gain its independence in 1910 and how did the revolution transform the country and its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world?
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Living in Outer Space
May 3, 2011What is necessary for human survival in space and how long can a person reasonably expect to thrive in such an inhospitable, zero-gravity environment?
