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Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People” shines a spotlight on Jim O’Connell, a Harvard-trained doctor who has spent 40 years caring for unhoused individuals in Boston, the “Rough Sleepers.” We talk with both Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O’Connell on this week’s Book Show.

We all love vacations but relatively few of us are aware of the dramatic changes to the sky when we travel. Actually, nothing happens if we shift our location east or west, like going from New York to Rome. But when we travel north or South, it’s a new universe.Hear why, when traveling, it’s worth a few minutes to gaze at the unusual sky.

On this episode of the Best of Our Knowledge we’ll learn how a hospital is partnering with a public library to give babies their first book.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, February 11th, 2023

Playlist as aired on Saturday, March 11th, 2023.

(Airs 03/12/23 @ 6 p.m. & 03/13/23 @ 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Judy and Ira talk about the latest on the Dominion lawsuit against Fox news, 2024 campaign coverage, whether the headlines about the dangers of traveling to Mexico are overblown, and much more.

To the ancient Greeks the sky was crammed with mythological figures. Few resembled the people or animals they were supposed to portray. But the Greeks were gifted essay-test-takers who could fill in the blanks with the best of them, and they knew observers could always recognize a star’s brilliance. So a man named Hipparchus who lived on Rhodes devised a scheme for sorting out star brightness. Tune in to hear how his system, still in use today, assigned each star one of six different magnitudes.

On this week’s 51%, we recognize Women’s History Month. Jennifer Herrera, vice president of external affairs for the National Women’s History Museum, shares how the organization is working to fill the gaps in our history books. Our associate producer, Jody Cowan, stops by a donation ceremony for a replica of the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument at the New York State Museum.

WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Jesse McKinley, a metro reporter for the New York Times, with an emphasis on coverage of upstate New York.

(Airs 03/10/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul’s proposal to increase the number of charter schools in the state is getting some pushback from members of the public education community, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Jesse McKinley of the New York Times, and Student advocates rally in Albany for free CUNY and SUNY tuition.