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Dr. Carrie O'Loughlin joins us to answer your pet health care questions. Ray Graf hosts.

Few families have inspired as much fascination as the Kennedys and Britain's royal family. Journalist Caroline Hallemann has spent years covering both as Digital Director of 'Town & Country,' and in her first book, 'The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made,' she brings their histories together in a fresh and revealing way.Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Hallemann traces nearly a century of connections, rivalries, tragedies, and public mythmaking, showing how America's closest thing to royalty and Britain's actual monarchy have reflected, influenced, and reshaped one another across generations.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho forever changed movie history with one shocking scene, but novelist Leah Rowan asks a tantalizing question: what if Marion Crane had survived? In her debut thriller, 'Marion,' Rowan reimagines one of cinema's most famous victims as a woman who fights back, setting off a suspenseful story of survival, revenge, and reinvention.A modern, feminist twist on a classic, the novel blends psychological suspense with sharp social commentary as Marion flees the aftermath of a deadly encounter while trying to save her sister from an abusive marriage. It's a bold, unexpected retelling that turns a familiar story on its head.

(Airs 06/25/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Primaries were held this week in NY, we’ll take a look at two races receiving national attention with reaction from voters, we’ll talk to the head of a coalition about four bills in the legislature to make magic mushrooms legal, and we’ll go back in time to take a conversational ride down the Erie Canal.

Novelist Francine Prose’s latest, 'Five Weeks in the Country,' turns a strange real-life literary episode into rich, darkly funny fiction. In the summer of 1857, Hans Christian Andersen arrives at Charles Dickens’ country home for what should have been a brief visit. Instead, he stays five excruciating weeks.

We welcome Jeremy Hurst, the Game Management Section Head for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and DEC wildlife biologist Jordan Youngmann. Ray Graf hosts.

In 'Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence,' Robert Parkinson argues that the document’s often-overlooked list of grievances against King George III reveals what truly drove the Revolution and why independence became inevitable.Annette Gordon-Reed is a 'New York Times'–bestselling historian and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Her books include 'The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,' which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and 'Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.' Her latest is a volume she edited, 'Jefferson on Race: A Reader.'

(Airs 07/15/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Mandi Zucker, Executive Director of End of Life Choices New York. We’ll talk about the new Medical Aid In Dying Law that’s set to go into effect in August.

The creator of NBC's Smash and the author of more than 20 plays - including 'Seminar,' 'Bernhardt/Hamlet,' 'Dig and Seared' - Theresa Rebeck is also the longtime resident playwright at Vermont's Dorset Theatre Festival. This summer she's returning to direct her own acclaimed backstage comedy, 'The Understudy,' running through Sunday.Set in the rehearsal room of a Broadway production of a long-lost Kafka play, 'The Understudy' follows an overlooked actor, a Hollywood star, and a frazzled stage manager as old rivalries, bruised egos, and dreams of success collide. It's a funny, fast-paced look at ambition, jealousy, second chances, and the wonderfully chaotic world behind the curtain.

Acclaimed pianist and NPR host Lara Downes, who has spent the past two years traveling the country for 'The Declaration Project,' a national initiative built around a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be American today?This Saturday Lara will bring that work to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center with 'Hold These Truths: Lara Downes and Friends,' a poignant and probing concert that marks America’s 250th anniversary by celebrating the power of music to express the core essence of our founding promise.