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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.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 14th, 2023:

On this week’s 51%, we speak with Amy Brittain of The Washington Post about the paper’s recent analysis of infant mortality in home births across the U.S.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023:

“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today,” says a character in “The Vulnerables,” the ninth novel by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez. “The Vulnerables” offers a meditation on our contemporary era, asking how present reality affects the way a person looks back on their past.