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Peter Hughes, Manager of The Linda: WAMC's Performing Arts Studio, joins us with a preview of upcoming events and broadcasts.

Tomorrow the 85th Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season gets underway at Tanglewood. The BSO's eight-week schedule includes music by 28 living composers and 48 musicians and artists making their debuts either with the orchestra or for the first time at its summer home in Lenox. We are joined by the BSO's Vice President of Artistic Planning Anthony Fogg.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are investigative journalist and RPI and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

According to our guest, Ellen Gray, pie time is ALL the time. Ellen is back to share her tips, recipes and tricks for making that perfect summer pie. Call in! 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

"My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering" is a memoir from historian Martha Hodes. In the new book, she offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, Albany Law School Professor of Law, Director of The Justice Center and Director of Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson, and investment Banker on Wall St. Mark Wittman. Sarah LaDuke hosts.

We welcome Dr. Abeel Mangi, chief of cardiac surgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. He specializes in complex and re-operative cardiac surgery; catheter-based and minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement, aortic reconstruction and all-arterial coronary bypass grafting. Call at show time (2pm) with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

In "V is for Victory,"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how President Franklin D. Roosevelt confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, “the arsenal of democracy” that won World War II.

The horse racing industry is under new oversight.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Congressman Paul Tonko, a Democrat from the 20th district, wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This interview was recorded June 26.

Summer at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College features new expanded hours and two of the Tang’s most popular traditions: the “Upbeat on the Roof” concert series and the community open house, Frances Day, in honor of the museum’s namesake, Frances Young Tang.