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He is one of the most popular guests on Vox Pop. Automotive ace Gordon Fricke is back to help keep your car or truck purring. Call with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

Soil Fest is a three-day celebration of soil at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, New York.The second annual festival, taking place Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23, will include live performances, workshops and food intersecting art, science and ecology. Soil Fest will feature live performances from the Dust Bowl Faeries, Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater and Lisa Schonberg.There will be artist-led workshops with Claire Pentecost, Brooke Singer and Allie Wist. Attendees can experience making biochar and tasting alternative grain beers.Here now to tell us more are artist, educator, and Soil Fest organizer Brooke Singer, composer, percussionist and environmental sound artist Lisa Schonberg, and artist, writer, and educator Claire Pentecost.

We welcome Dr. Lucas First, a physiatrist with St. Peter’s Musculoskeletal Medicine. Dr. First is a physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) physician, specializing in interventional pain medicine. Call in at show time (2pm) with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

Peter Turchin is Project Leader at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Research Associate at University of Oxford, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut. Trained as a theoretical biologist, he is now working in the field of historical social science. Currently his main research effort is directed at coordinating CrisisDB, a massive historical database of societies sliding into a crisis—and then emerging from it.Peter Turchin's new book is “End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.”

We welcome Dr. Kelly Beers, a nephrologist at Albany Medical Center. Dr. Beers has a special interest in glomerular disease and pregnancy-associated kidney disease. She also cares for patients with general kidney conditions, including chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and hypertension. Call with your question at show time (2pm.) 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

Saint-Saëns’s opera "Henry VIII" will run as part of the 20th Bard SummerScape, July 21–30, in the Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center at Bard. This, the first fully staged production of Henry III in the United States will be sung in French with English supertitles. Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra.Internationally acclaimed stage director Jean-Romain Vesperini helms the production at Bard and he joins us.

The state of Vermont is still cleaning up from last week’s floods.In today’s Congressional Corner, Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint, a Democrat at-large, speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This interview was recorded July 17.

Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore in Chatham, New York joins us with this week's Book Picks.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Albany’s Chief City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs, corporate attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP Rich Honen, Semi-retired, Editor at large/columnist/editorial writer, Times Union Jay Jochnowitz, and former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain.

"The Smile of Her" is a world premiere play written and performed by Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards winner Christine Lahti. The play, running through July 29 at BTG’s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, takes the audience on a sometimes funny, always deeply personal, journey of denial, neglect, abuse, understanding and by the end: hope.