Joe Donahue

We welcome Bill T. Jones back to the show to talk about the program his company is presenting at SPAC on June 7th.

The Berkshire Playwright's Lab 5th Season multi-media Gala Celebration
will take place on June 9th at 7:30pm at The Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. We welcome Jay Thomas back to the show to talk about his work with BPL and more.

Fox News is under fire for a campaign ad-style four-minute video highly critical of President Obama, which ran twice on the cable channel's morning program "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday morning. Do you feel a journalistic line was crossed?

Video here.

Hancock Shaker Village's operations and marketing director, Laura Wolf, and their collections manager and curator, Lesley Herzberg, join us in Studio A to talk about this season at HSV and their new exhibition, A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA.

The opening night film of this year's Berkshire International Film Festival is Ethel - it's screening at The Mahaiwe on Thursday, May 31st at 7:30pm. Ethel is a feature length documentary about the remarkable life of Ethel Kennedy, told by those who know her best: her family. Directed by her Emmy-Award winning daughter, Rory Kennedy, the film features candid interviews with Ethel and seven of her children.

What, do you think, is the basis of road rage?

APM performs works from the Civil War era, augmented by period images and readings of letters from Civil War soldiers on Saturday, June 9 at EMPAC in Troy, NY. David Griggs-Janower and Bob Bullock join us to tell us more about the event.

Rich Honen of Phillips Lytle LLP joins us to talk about JP Morgan Chase and Facebooks recent trading blunders.

Matt Tennenbaum and Michael Schiavo of The Book Store in Lenox, MA share this week's Book Picks titles.

The List:
Magic Hours: On Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell
Alien Vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
All Access by Ken Regan
Thinking the 20th Century by Tony Judt
The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver
Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed (The Fifty Shades Trilogy) by E.L. James