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(Airs 06/02/22 @ 3 p.m. & 06/04/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday.

(Airs 05/13/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul says she’s freeing up $35 million for abortion clinics to serve out of state patients, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the race for the open 19th Congressional district seat, and we’ll talk to Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus who’s just back from a Navy deployment in Ukraine.

(Airs 05/15/22 @ 6 p.m. & 05/16/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, former Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, Rosemary Armao, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Rosemary, and Barbara talk about whether former President Trump will return to Twitter after Elon Musk said he would be welcome back, coverage of the of top secret intelligence leaks the U.S. is providing Ukraine, the Pulitzer prizes, and much more.

Sunday night, May 15, we see a total eclipse of the moon. It is especially welcome because for the last couple of years every lunar eclipse has been penumbral, meaning the moon failed to touch even the edge of Earth’s shadow.

When improv artist Anthony Veneziale—he co-created Freestyle Love Supreme with Lin-Manuel Miranda—got a guitar from his wife, he yearned to play at bedtime for their two young daughters. “They were like, ‘Could you stop? Could you just cuddle?’” The ups and downs—but mostly ups—of an actor’s life.

WAMC Listening Party playlist as aired on Saturday, June 11th, 2022:

(Airs 06/16/22 @ 3 p.m. & 06/18/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) about the end of the state legislative session.

The Big Bang theory, strongly supported by the cosmic microwave background and the cosmic expansion rate, says that starting 13.8 billion years ago, everything initially raced away from everything else like an inflating balloon.

Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” is a sibling novel to her Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Critics Circle-winning “A Visit from The Goon Squad.” It asks big questions about the totalizing and flattening effects of digital culture, privacy, and surveillance. It is a place where people can upload their actual memories, and let other people live in theirs.

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City Zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in Stephen Harrigan’s story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears. His new novel is “The Leopard is Loose.”