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  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Series
    • Racial Justice and Equality with Gerald Smith
    • The Ethics and Virtues of Democratic Society with Fr. Jim Trimble
    • Teaching in a Pandemic with Cynthia Resor & Tonya May
    • 19th Amendment Series with Jackie Jay & Kathi Kern
    • Future Tense with Chris Begley
    • State of Justice: The criminal justice system in Eastern Kentucky
    • Kentucky Authors with Tom Eblen
    • Education IS Economic Development with Lee Todd
    • Kentucky History with Stephanie Lang
    • The Kentucky Mind with Melinda Moore & Theresa Botts
    • Kentucky Songcrafters with Carla Gover
    • Humans of Central Appalachia
    • LexPhil Conductor Candidate Interviews
  • Partners
  • Contact

Program for January 7, 2021 

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Tom Martin with UK Pharmacist, researcher Sarah Blevins: How the Ryan White Act and its approach to HIV now treats opioid addiction | Stephanie Lang, editor of The Register of the Kentucky Historical…

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Program for December 31, 2020 

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Tracking food consumer online shopping trends through the year of covid-19 | Hidden political scandals in Kentucky history | KET’s education factory responds to in-home learning | Kentucky author interview: Berea’s Alix Harrow 

 Interviews in order of appearance 

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Program for December 24, 2020 

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Neighbors helping neighbors keep their businesses afloat | A for-profit and a non-profit partner to bring change to the nutrition of a next generation of Eastern Kentuckians |How one who has made his fortunes in coal is…

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Program for December 17, 2020 

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Vaccines are on the way. How should we calibrate our expectations about when we will roll up our sleeves? We offer the perspectives of two Kentucky experts | How is the pandemic messing with our minds? We hear…

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Program for December 10, 2020 

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The film adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy has renewed spirited conversations about the JD Vance memoir. Tom Eblen discusses it with Cassie Chambers Armstrong, author…

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Program for December 3, 2020 

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An update from the co-chairs of the Lexington Commission for Racial Justice and Equality | The rise of Black philanthropy in Lexington | The University Press of Kentucky, under new leadership in a changing media landscape | Series…

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Program for November 19, 2020 

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What is the meaning and intent of the phrase “Black Lives Matter”? Gerald Smith takes up the question with Sandra Weissinger, Associate Professor of  African American communities, race and ethnic relations, urban sociology and qualitative research methods at…

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Program for November 12, 2020 

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Tom Eblen interviews author Beverly Bell on the murder of golf star Marion Miley | Pandemic pressures and the family. EKU Psychologist MyraBeth Bundy speaks from clinical experience but also that of a mom with…

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Program for November 5, 2020 

Lee Todd, Thomas Martin on what is gained from a marriage of education and economy - as well as what should not be lost | Shawn Gannon teaches welders. He can’t graduate them fast enough to meet demand | The…

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Program for October 29, 2020 

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A list of questions for Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins about the 2020 General Election, made unusual and extraordinary by a pandemic and a divided nation | Tom Eblen interviews UK Law Professor Joshua Douglas about his new…

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Program for October 22, 2020 

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A pandemic priority: children. A child psychiatrist weighs-in on abuse and neglect now going unnoticed | The 4th annual Music for Mission tribute channels John Lennon. The virtual concert marks the 80th anniversary of Lennon's birth and the…

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Program for October 15, 2020 

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Unmasking threats to liberties versus threats to lives: welcome to the world of the public health worker | Doctors experiencing burnout in rising numbers. We hear of a solution | Jailed before the outbreak, released in the midst…

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Program for October 8, 2020 

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 Not letting a pandemic get in the way, the Kentucky Book Festival is “on” - virtually. | A mini book festival of our own features poet Lynell Edwards; novelists Wesley Browne and Karen Salyer…

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Program for October 1, 2020 

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A psychiatrist on moral and ethical dilemmas found on the frontlines of covid-19 | A commercial real estate broker on what’s happening to that home-away-from-home, the office. | Who did the heavy-lifting for the hemp industry of the…

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Program for September 24, 2020 

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“We must make America what America says it is.” A new series debuts with a focus on racial justice and equality | How the pandemic is aggravating the gap between Kentucky’s rich and poor…

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Program for September 17, 2020 

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The Quarantine Psyche, Part 2 | KY warned again about antibiotic overuse | Chris Begley with Dan Wu: an SOS on behalf of restaurants | New Blog "Un-Tucks" Kentucky. 

Interviews in order of appearance 

Tom Martin with Dr.…

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Program for September 10, 2020 

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What is this thing we’re experiencing? Some call it “quarantine fatigue.” We explore the symptoms and coping strategies with Psychiatry chair Seth Himelhoch | How Kentucky’s largest school district is managing under pandemic conditions with Supt. Marty Pollio…

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Program for September 3, 2020 

Child vaccinations have declined in Kentucky since the pandemic struck in March | How Berea Schools are reopening | Some backstory on the newly renamed Henry Tandy A. Centennial Park, formerly known as Cheapside Park | Silas House's take on…

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Program for August 27, 2020 

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What a 43-county survey finds happening in Kentucky’s child welfare system under pandemic conditions | Our series on reopening schools in a pandemic takes us to the Corbin Independent School System and Superintendent David Cox | The Kentucky…

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Program for August 20, 2020 

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It’s Carrie Ballinger’s first school year as Superintendent of Schools in Rockcastle County. And a pandemic is making everything unpredictable. The latest in our series of interviews with teachers and superintendents working to reopen schools | Child care…

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Program for August 13, 2020 

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What is it like to teach as a deaf person who relies on lip-reading and facial expression to communicate in a time when everyone is wearing masks? | What are the implications of masking for children’s cognitive development…

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Program for August 6, 2020 

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Hitting the ground running: Jason Glass, Kentucky's new Commissioner of Education steps into a leadership role freighted with concerns about the future of public education under pandemic conditions. | Listen to the heart and soul of a dedicated…

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Program for July 30, 2020 

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Sallie Showalter and Jim Bannister (back to camera)

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The descendants of the accused and accuser sit down in Paris, Kentucky for a courageous conversation about a…

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Program for July 23, 2020 

Segment One: Is the removal or relocation of Confederate statues an erasure or revision of history? Or a correction of the historical record? Two Civil War historians weigh in.  LISTEN 

Segment Two:  Uncertainty is a constant companion of Kentucky teachers…

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