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WAMC Listening Party playlist as aired on Saturday, January 14th, 2023.

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 sets from our 2022 “Summer on Central Concert Series.”

This week we’ll study seven basic facts about the universe like how Aristarchus, 18 centuries before Copernicus, declared the earth orbits around the sun.

President of the Ford Foundation, he supported Monticello’s efforts to improve its depiction of the enslaved Black people who built it as well as Thomas Jefferson, who owned it, not only as honest history but because, “I believe that Thomas Jefferson and his home are one and the same.” A hyper-metaphor. Presented with the Municipal Art Society. Guest-host: Jami Floyd.

The self-described Trash Walker prowls corporate dumpsters, seeking egregious waste, and yet she says, “I love stuff, and I want to make that clear. I love things. And I think that’s one of the reasons why I’m so attracted to the trash.” A paradox resolved at Materials for the Arts.

(Airs 01/12/23 @ 3 p.m. & 01/14/23 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with SUNY Chancellor John King about New York’s higher education system.

(Airs 01/15/23 @ 6 p.m. & 01/16/23 @ 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 Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at RPI and UAlbany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about how to cover homelessness, whether journalist’s prey on people to get information, the Wall Street Journal reporter handcuffed by police, and much more.

Rightly proud of her field, she declares, “We’re the most trusted profession in the country for twenty-some odd years.” Police? Priests? Tech execs? Finance weasels? Yeah, right. Nurses! She’s the dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing.

She’s filmed a lot of musicians—Michael Tilson Thomas, the Metropolitan Opera—but her heart belongs to Doña Carlota Joaquina, princess of Portugal, the Shrew of Queluz: “Any woman who is known as a shrew I would probably like.” Produced with Ralph Farris and featuring music by Ethel.

On this episode on The Best of Our Knowledge…As COVID-19 restrictions ease, public school students are seeing the return of an exciting tradition – the school field trip. Jody Cowan will bring us more. The Peace Corps is sending its first deployment of volunteers around the world since the lockdown of 2020. Host Lucas Willard will speak with a recent graduate preparing for her two-year tour. And a storybook is helping young children affected by the war in Ukraine.