A Family Affair
October 15, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to Sophie Sartain about the challenges of telling her family’s story, which she does in the documentary Mimi and Dona.
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Mapping The U.S.
October 15, 2014We’ll talk this hour about what we can learn from maps with University of Texas at Arlington special collections curator Ben Huseman; Texas Map Society president Gerald Saxon; and Imre Dembardt, Professor of Cartographic History at UTA. They’ll take part in this week’s Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography and the accompanying Map Fair of the West.
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Ebola And The Law
October 14, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of health care and the law with Professor Nathan Cortez of SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Laura Reilly O’Hara of Strasburger & Price, LLP; and KERA health and science reporter Lauren Silverman.
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From Farm To The Garbage
October 14, 2014An estimated one-third of all food produced worldwide is either lost or wasted somewhere between the farm and our dinner plates. This hour, we’ll talk about the opportunities presented by all that waste with Elizabeth Royte. She writes about the topic in the November issue of National Geographic.
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Memories Of A Mormon Missionary
October 13, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about the wide array of reactions they receive after knocking on those doors with Craig Harline. The one-time missionary writes about his experiences in Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary.
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Antibiotics’ Dark Side
October 13, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about why some scientists are warning that we may soon lose the power of antibiotics with Frontline correspondent David Hoffman. His reporting on the topic is included in Frontline: The Trouble With Antibiotics, which airs Tuesday at 9 on KERA-TV.
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The End Of The Wright Amendment
October 9, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how the end of the amendment affects both local travelers and the two major airlines based in North Texas with aviation writers Terry Maxon of The Dallas Morning News and Andrea Ahles of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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The Legacy Of North Texas Beer
October 9, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how we transformed from the land of Bud and Coors into one of America’s budding beer capitals with the authors of North Texas Beer: A Full-Bodied History of Brewing in Dallas, Fort Worth and Beyond
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Building Just Cities
October 8, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how we can imagine cities that work for everyone with Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster and Colleen Casey of the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Urban and Public Affairs.
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James Ellroy’s Life Of Crime
October 8, 2014We’ll talk to him this hour about his latest work, Perfidia, which centers around the investigation of a Japanese family’s murder at the outset of American involvement in World War II.
