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Everyone loves shooting stars. And twice each year we get famous meteor showers, when their numbers explode to very nearly one per minute. That’s what’s happening now. And these Perseids will keep intensifying until their peak a week from now.

On this week’s 51%, we sit down with Muriel Fox, feminist activist and cofounder of the National Organization for Women, about her new memoir celebrating the second wave feminist movement — and those who made it happen.

(Airs 08/02/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Upstate New York has seen an unusual amount of tornados this summer, and Senator Schumer wants to know why, we’ll speak with Blair Horner of NYPIRG about making polluters pay, and although they remain down on politics, New Yorkers are feeling optimistic about the future in a new Siena Poll.

Dr. Fauci has a hidden talent with birds. Tune in to hear about his favorite things, including his bird calls.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, September 21st, 2024

(Airs 09/20/24 @ 3 p.m. & 09/22/24 @ 6 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, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara and David talk about the value of in-person reporting, the resistance of politicians to talk with “real” journalists, whether children who commit crimes should be put on the front page, and much more.

Let’s face it, academic writing can be…boring.We’ll speak with author Leonard Cassuto about his book, “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter.”And we’ll catch up with a pair of college presidents.

Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers “Rules of Civility,” “A Gentleman in Moscow,” and “The Lincoln Highway.” The three novels have collectively sold more than five million copies. His latest is a collection of stories: “Table for Two: Fictions.” He is also editor of this year’s “The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners.”

Playlist as aired on Saturday, August 24th, 2024

(Airs 08/29/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with SUNY Chancellor John King about the problems with FAFSA, voting on campus in November, enrollment numbers, tackling artificial intelligence, and much more.