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Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 7st, 2023, archive show originally aired on October 1st, 2022:

(Airs 10/06/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Five years later, we remember the tragic limo crash that killed 20 people in Schoharie, recent storms and flooding put pressure on lawmakers to move New York more quickly to clean energy sources, and we’ll talk about legal representation for the poor with the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.

Those who were in the path of the last U.S. total solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, know the marvels that arrive with a solar totality. The experience tops the list of nature’s most awesome spectacles. But a partial solar eclipse, which is taking place on October 14, is a different ball of wax.

On this week's The Best of Our Knowledge: With a massive, multi-year expansion project finally completed, staff and educators at the Strong Museum of Play are eager to welcome new and returning crowds. And after two college-in-prison programs in New York hosted by private universities collapsed earlier this year, Bard College will pick up the slack.

On this week’s 51%, we sit down with playwright Juliany Taveras for a preview of the new Children's Theatre Company production "Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress." WAMC’s Samantha Simmons also speaks with Olympic runner Alexi Pappas about how she went about adapting her book, "Bravey," for a younger audience.

The Times calls Booker Prize winning writer Anne Enright one of our greatest living novelists. Her latest, “The Wren, The Wren” is about a dead poet’s daughter and granddaughter coming to terms with his troubling legacy. Enright’s novel about language and connection explores the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.

On this week’s 51%, we sit down with “defensive living” experts Joy Farrow and Laura Frombach to discuss modern ways women are protecting themselves in the face of gender-based violence.

(Airs 10/12/23 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with Hank Greenberg, member and spokesperson for The Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York about New York Jews’ reaction to the attack on Israel by Hamas, and more.

(Airs 10/13/23 @ 3 p.m. & 10/15/23 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Ira and Ian talk about what it’s like to be a reporter covering a war, whether the social media platform Threads will replace X as a source for breaking news, and much more.

(Airs 10/13/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: The Governor and state attorney general back two bills to protect children from social media, a discussion with the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York about the state’s connection to Israel and reaction to the attack on Israel by Hamas, and we’ll share one town’s idea to boost a shortage of volunteer firefighters.