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Playlist as aired on WAMC HD2 on Saturday, August 6th, 2022:

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 hear sets from The Accidentals, Stephen Clair, Tim Eriksen & Trio de Pumpkintown, and Erin McKeown.

(Airs 08/12/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the GOP candidate for Governor calls for lawmakers to reverse a plan to phase in a 40-hour workweek for farm laborers, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, and Senator Gillibrand calls on the President to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase Monkeypox vaccine.

On this week’s 51%, we’re talking comfort food. We speak with food writer and chocolate expert Megan Giller of Chocolate Noise about her love of bean-to-bar chocolate, and how the craft is challenging the larger chocolate industry.

(Airs 08/12/22 @ 3 p.m. & 08/13/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Research Group (NYPIRG).

Every summer there’s a great meteor shower, the Perseids. Some years they are spectacular, other years you only see a tenth of what’s happening. We’ll hear how visible the shooting stars will be this year.

(Airs 08/26/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul marks one year in office, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on this week’s Primary results in New York, and we’ll have an in-depth conversation with the head of the state Democratic party.

(Airs 08/28/22 @ 6 p.m. & 08/29/22 @ 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 and current Substack columnist Rex Smith, Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about how the media can respond to Republican media restrictions, whether Facebook and Google should pay newspapers for using their content, and much more.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, August 27th, 2022

Writer Séamas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble. He tells the story in his memoir: “Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?”