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(Airs 08/19/21 @ 3 p.m. & 08/21/21 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Will Barclay, New York State Republican Assembly Minority Leader.

When talking about the civil rights movement in the south, the name Emmett Till is bound to come up. His murder is widely remembered today as one of the most brutal lynchings ever in the US. But while Till’s death terrorized young African-Americans in Mississippi, it also gave them a rallying cry. That’s the story that Robert H. Mayer tells in his new book “In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle showed us Tomorrow."

A vast energy field fills the universe. Vacuum energy or zero point energy has unimaginable power. In a way all objects around us are just little nodules, tiny extra thickness of this energy, hovering before us three dimensionally.

Tonight, Oscar-nominated filmmaker R. J. Cutler speaks to us about Shea Stadium, an upright piano, and Popsicle Pete.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 9th, 2021

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 a set from Justin Friello, who was a part of this year’s “Open for Business Concert Series” and The Accidentals from 2019.

(Airs 10/14/21 @ 3 p.m. & 10/16/21 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with the Nick Langworthy, Chairman of the New York State Republican Party.

On this week’s 51%, we recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We tune into a virtual conference on women’s health at the University of Vermont Cancer Center, and speak with Albany Medical Center’s Dr. Lynn Choi about what you can do to reduce your risk for the disease.

(Airs 10/15/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A new Marist poll finds Governor Hochul is the favorite for election next year, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the implications of that poll, and we’ll look back ten years at the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement

Author Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for the #1 New York Times bestseller, “The Overstory.” His latest novel, “Bewilderment,” has already been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.