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Playlist as aired on Saturday, January 4th, 2025

Eddie Izzard is eager that her solo performance of Hamlet—yes, all the parts—be a pleasure accessible to everyone. “Shakespeare is presented to people these days as: this is good for you. I’ve heard the term ‘spinach theater.’” Izzard also talks to us about Shakespeare and Covent Garden.

(Airs 01/03/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul signs the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, New York state already ranks last in the nation for delivery of early intervention services for babies and toddlers with developmental delays, and officials say it’s getting worse, and we’ll take a look at the mental health dangers facing farmers.

This week, we’ll celebrate the best of The Best of Our Knowledge in 2024.We’ll visit a former pig barn that is serving as a temporary home to the largest collection of popular music in the world.We’ll spend time at the intersection of music and evolutionary theory.And we’ll learn how children’s ideas are brought to life in glass.

On this week’s 51%, we sit down the director of Safe Inc. of Schenectady to discuss the many risks faced by homeless youth, and what they’re doing as an organization to help combat human trafficking. We also learn about a New York law granting paid prenatal leave to pregnant workers. And our Dr. Sharon Ufberg chats with singer-songwriter Morley about her new album, Follow the Sound, and how her humanitarian work inspires her music.

(Airs 01/10/25 & 01/12/25 @ 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 threat to public media on the horizon, the Washington Post cartoonist who quit after her cartoon was killed, Meta deciding it will no longer provide fact-checking, and much more.

(Airs 01/10/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: State lawmakers come back to Albany for this year’s legislative session, New York becomes the first state in the country to mandate paid prenatal leave for pregnant workers, and after the resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, North Country officials involved in border issues are watching closely.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, January 11th, 2025

The solstice marking the start of winter happened a couple of weeks ago, on December 21. But it also usually delivers a lot of confusion. Hear the real surprise about our earliest sunset and just how late the sun will set this month.

On this episode, we’ll learn about how an increase in research spending over decades has changed NYU.And we’ll speak with an international scholar in the area of therapy dogs in classrooms.