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Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy From the North Country,” is a moving story of love, loss, and identity. When twenty-six-year-old Evan returns home to care for his dying mother, June, he begins to uncover long-kept secrets. Chief among them: the possibility that his father is Bob Dylan.

(Airs 09/19/25 @ 3 p.m. & 09/21/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and current Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Barbara, Ira and David talk about ABC suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show along with more attacks on the media, what happened to the WAMC sports report, and much more.

(Airs 09/19/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Democratic Congressman Tim Kennedy defends his bill to hire thousands more Customs and Border Protection agents, we’ll speak with Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of the Marist Poll about the latest numbers on the NYC Mayoral race, and the four Democrats hoping to challenge New York Congressman Mike Lawler took part in a forum this week.

Janis Siegel, a member of Manhattan Transfer, has won ten Grammy Awards, but “I was not going to be a singer at all, actually; I was going to be a nurse.” Medicine’s loss, music’s gain. Siegel tells us about Pips Comedy Club and Tim Hauser.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Vampire Bats… not really an inviting name, but new research discovers that these bats have behaviors of cuddling, playing, sharing, and moreAnd we also learn about an ancient voyage recreation that happened thousands of years ago across one of the strongest ocean currents in the world by a team of researchers.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout’s latest, Tell Me Everything, returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, forge new friendships, make difficult decisions about love, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

On this week’s 51%, we recognize the 25th anniversary of the Food & Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which, in conjunction with misoprostol, is now used for the majority of abortions in the U.S. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons speaks with abortion-rights advocate and vlogger Marissa Rudd about her experience using mifepristone, and why she personally chose to have an abortion. We also chat with Kimberly Mutcherson, a professor at Rutgers Law School, about the challenges mifepristone faces in court and in the Trump Administration.

(Airs 10/02/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, about their campaign in New York to pass legislation that would fairly compensate tipped workers, achieving a living wage for all, and much more.

If you're hearing this on Sunday, Saturn is at its closest point to Earth, and its rings appear as a straight white line due to their edge-on alignment — a rare event that occurs every 15 years during its equinox. Earth’s own equinox arrives Monday at 2:10 PM, marking the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This equinox often falls on the 22nd or 23rd because, as Kepler explained, Earth speeds up in its orbit when closer to the sun in January and slows down in July. That means winter is shorter than summer by about a week — a fact disguised by our calendar and the uneven placement of long and short months.

Until the 20th century, astronomers ignored the interiors of things. They had to. Telescopes only showed outermost layers.Scientists knew that a ball's "inside" constitutes virtually all its mass, but basic questions went unanswered: What, for example, lay below the dazzling solar surface? What mysteries might be found in the core of galaxies?