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Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week we feature two singer-songwriters: Brooks Williams from 2010 and Mary Gauthier from 2021.

Comet Leonard is now heading even further south and dimming, so it’s time to move on. But a great comet comes along every 15 years on average, so there’s always next time.

Madison Smartt Bell is a novelist especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.

(Airs 3/11/21 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Roger Landry about his book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging.

Being an adolescent comes with temptations, frustrations and a ton of mixed messages. So going it alone shouldn’t really be an option. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about the importance of having that one trusted adult.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. He embodies the radical power of hope, of working for social change, even when there is no evidence that you will succeed: “Hope is kind of an orientation of the spirit; it’s how you position yourself in places where there’s a lot of despair.”

After school programs around the country are having the same issue as a lot of business: finding enough qualified staff members. This was a problem even before the pandemic, but a new survey from the Afterschool Alliance shows 87% of afterschool programs are concerned about finding and keeping staff, and more than half have had to put interested families on waiting lists. Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, a discussion on the current state of after school programs.

Since pi-day, March 14, is coming up, let’s prepare by pondering the number that has obsessed and tortured minds for centuries. This Greek letter, of course, represents the relationship between a circle and its diameter. It’s certainly known by smart alien civilizations throughout the universe. Other universe-wide numbers probably memorized by tattooed Andromeda school-kids no doubt include the four-to-one mass ratio of helium to hydrogen and the speed of light.

(Airs 03/03/22 @ 1p.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Ukraine/Russia Expert James Brooke, a veteran journalist and foreign affairs columnist who has worked for Voice of America, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Berkshire Eagle, and more.

(Airs 03/03/22 @ 3 p.m. & 03/05/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Democratic New York State Senator James Skoufis of the 39th District.