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Playlist as aired on Saturday, September 9. 2023:

“The best future for the United States belongs to people who can appreciate both the Declaration of Independence, and Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,” says the Manhattan borough historian and Rutgers professor emeritus Rob Snyder. Snyder joins us to talk about his work, Marc Bloch, 550 Fort Washington Ave. and his Swiss Army knife.

This week our eyes face the most concentrated part of our Galaxy. If it's clear, and you’re away from city lights, September's crisp air allows the Milky Way to emerge in all its glory. That’s because our own galaxy’s disk is now perpendicular to the horizon so that it crosses the entire sky and passes straight overhead.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, September 23, 2023.

The autumnal equinox is here. It means Earth is now angled sideways to the sun. Since neither pole is tipped toward the Sun, days and nights should be equal. The main equinox event, other than declaring it the start of fall, is that the sun rises exactly in the east and sets precisely in the west, not southeast or northwest or anything else. The Sun is now more accurate than any compass.

National Book Award Winner James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” is rooted in small-town secrets as the residents of rundown Chicken Hill in Pottstown, Pennsylvania live with compassion on the margins of society.

(Airs 09/22/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul signs a law to make it easier for New Yorkers to access mail-in voting, Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay on the Republican plan to deal with migrants, and fall foliage season begins upstate.

Neptune's single strangest feature are its bizarre winds, the fastest in the known universe, which blow with five times the speed of tornados. Tune in to hear about the blue, gassy planet, and how it is now at its brightest and closest of the year.

On this week's The Best of Our Knowledge: A new poll shows that while Americans mostly see the value in a college degree, many don’t think colleges are doing a great job in educating students.

(Airs 09/24/23 @ 6 p.m. & 09/25/23 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Rosemary, and Ian talk about Rupert Murdoch stepping down from Fox, Donald Trump on Meet The Press, sports writing and how major college programs have their way with the media, and much more.