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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 features Girl Blue and Hasty Page. We also hear from comic Chris Lamberth in our segment “In Other Words.”

This week, NYS School Boards Associate Director discusses student learning loss during the pandemic, and school reopening. Our political observer Dr. Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on this week’s special session for the state legislature. We also hear from a new republican candidate who has entered the race for New York’s 21st Congressional District.

This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Senator James Skoufis. Skoufis is a Democrat from the 39th District and Chair of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations.

(Airs 09/05/21 @ 6 p.m. & 06/28/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Judy and Barbara talk about how to deal with an apocalyptical news cycle, the value of truth telling, the continuing print down turn and much more.

We go deeper (or should we say outer) to learn about Venus’ unique characteristics and the history of how it was found.

(Airs 09/12/21 @ 6 p.m. & 09/13/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Rex, and Ira talk about media coverage of Covid-19 and the drug Ivermectin, and much more.

Playlist as aired on September 4th, 2021.

At 8 p.m. on Sunday, twilight deepens and you’ll see Venus, the brightest “star” in the whole sky, and our jumping-off point for a celestial adventure.

This week, we discuss the heart with author Bill Schutt.

With one of the longest-running bestselling adult hardcovers in publishing history, "The Girl on the Train," Paula Hawkins became an international publishing phenomenon. She now unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge in her latest novel, "A Slow Fire Burning."