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On this week’s 51%, we hear from the director of a new documentary telling the stories of domestic violence survivors in Sri Lanka. Teardrop on Fire, the debut film from director Jessica Palden, explores the community impacts of toxic, abusive relationships, and highlights the allies working to help survivors.

Simon Rich is a frequent contributor to "The New Yorker." He has written for “Saturday Night Live,” Pixar, and “The Simpsons” and is the creator of the TV shows “Man Seeking Woman” and “Miracle Workers.” His latest story collection, “Glory Days,” mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.

(Airs 08/16/24 @ 3 p.m. & 08/18/24 @ 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 Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara, and Ira talk about the loss of all news radio station WCBS 880 AM in New York City, the decision by The New York Times to stop endorsing candidates in New York, the journalistic rules for reporting hacked, leaked and/or stolen material, and much more.

On this week’s 51%, our associate producer Jody Cowan speaks with ethnobotanist Dr. Ina Vandebroek and anthropologist Dr. Cynthia Fowler about efforts in the science community to address racism and decolonize the way we study and name native plants around the world.

(Airs 08/16/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: We’ll take a look at the state’s Internet for All grant program, school districts across NY move forward to remove cellphones from classrooms, and if you’re on the Hudson River this month, you might see a new vessel keeping the waterway clean.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, August 17th, 2024:

Len Elmore was on the Knicks during the playoffs: “We’re playing the Celtics, and I get this letter, and I was accepted.” To Harvard Law. Elmore also talks about College Park, Md. and more basketball.

Ann Goldstein, the celebrated translator of Elena Ferrante and Pier Paolo Pasolini, says of her work, “It is an impossible task, but never the less, it has to be done.” Goldstein tells us about Rome and Dante.

Producing artistic director Ty Jones of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, focusses on work from Sophocles to Shakespeare — the big S playwrights — as a way to explore fundamental ideas. “These are living arguments, these classic plays.” Jones tells us about Nat Turner and his journals.

In 1993, in his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, Bret Anthony Johnston watched on live TV as flames engulfed a number of buildings in Waco – full of men, women, and children – during the FBI’s siege of the Branch Davidian compound. This time led to his writing the novel, “We Burn Daylight.”