NASA’s Don Yeomans
We’ve all seen the movies or read the books where the killer asteroid slams into earth and destroys life as we know it. But could that really happen? And just what is an asteroid anyway? Or how about a comet? And what about Apophis, the asteroid scheduled to come very close to early on Friday, April 13th, 2029?
Join WFPL’s Robin Fisher as she talks with Don Yeomans, Manager for NASA’s Near Earth Objects program about asteroids, comets and why we should care about such strange things.
This American Life
Ira Glass has taken one of the most popular shows on public radio to television. Though he insists his main job is still the radio show, This American Life debuted last week on Showtime. It’s a venture he was cautious about making, and as he shares with WFPL’s Stephanie Sanders, the end result has turned out to be much different than he expected.
This American Life (television show) airs Thursday nights at 10:30 on Showtime. This American Life (radio show) airs Saturdays at one and Sundays at four on WFPL.
Elizabeth Hickey
Louisville Native Elizabeth Hickey’s second novel, “The Wayward Muse” uses the real-life love triangle between painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his model Jane Morris and artist William Morris as the setting for a richly imagined story. With experience in art history, Hickey has an eye for artistic detail that brings the story to life. Join WFPL’s Robin Fisher as she talks with Hickey about crafting fiction from fact, where she finds inspiration and what it’s like to read to the hometown crowd.
2007 Grawemeyer Award Winner Sebastian Currier
The Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition is among the most highly sought and revered prizes in music. It’s awarded annually, through an anonymous process, to a composer and their composition that has been premiered in the previous four years. Sebastian Currier was announced as the 2007 winner, with his composition Static. The announcement was made on March 8, 2007 in New York City at Carnegie Hall, during a concert featuring the University of Louisville School of Music.
Beverly Bartlett
Let’s face it; whether or not we want to admit it, most of us love celebrity gossip. But is the lure of celebrity or watching the famous fall? In her new novel, “Cover Girl Confidential”, local author Beverly Bartlett explores the nature of celebrity, and dishes a little fictional dirt. Join WFPL’s Robin Fisher as she talks with Bartlett about her writing style and joys of celebrity watching.
Kim Lavine
Imagine you are a stay-at-home mom with two young children and your husband loses his job. Your mortgage is two hundred thousand dollars. Unfortunately, this story isn’t an uncommon one, but Kim Lavine decided to control her destiny and the destiny of her family by taking an original product she made at her kitchen table and turning it into a multi-million dollar business. Now Lavine shares her secrets in her book “Mommy Millionaire. How I turned my kitchen table idea into a million dollars and how you can too!”
Ali Basye
Poodle skirts. Mini Skirts. Throughout fashion history, skirt lengths and shapes have reflected the changing attitudes and fortunes of Western culture. This week, WFPL’s Laura Ellis speaks with Ali Basye, author of “The Long and Short of It: A Madcap History of the Skirt”, about great moments in skirt history.
Registered Nurses Response Network
More than 100 Kentucky nurses have joined a new organization called the Registered Nurses Response Network, or RNRN. It was formed in response to the problems many nurses say they faced in attempts to volunteer during hurricane relief in the aftermath of Katrina. WFPL’s Julie Goodwin talks with RNRN members about how the organization hopes to provide support and coordination for volunteer nurses when the next disaster hits.
Summer Food Program
The Kentucky Department of Education is arranging a summer food program again this year. Sponsors provide meals and snacks for children from May until September when schools are taking the summer break. WFPL’s Heidi Caravan spoke with Kentucky Education Department’s Lisa Gross about the summer food program.
David Macauley
Have you ever wondered how what happens underneath a city, or how a thermometer works? Or how about the way in which a cathedral is built, or a shipwreck is recovered? Author and illustrator David Macaulay not only wondered; he set out to find out the answers to these questions and more. Join WFPL’s Robin Fisher as she talks with David Macaulay about his books and the current Speed Art Museum exhibit, Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay.
Bruce Adolphe
Composer Bruce Adolphe is one of the featured composers this weekend at a Louisville Orchestra concert titled “Animals: Real and Imagined.” It’s part of the LO’s OrKIDStra! series and features music from “The Chronicles of Narnia” and Adolphe’s “Oceanophony” and “Tyrannosaurus Sue”.
Adolphe is the co-founder of a company called PollyRhythm Productions, which focuses on combining education with classical music for children. He spoke with WFPL’s Stephanie Sanders.
“Faces and Voices of Recovery”
An HBO documentary, set to air March 15th, will focus on medical, legal and social aspects of addiction. In response to this, the Louisville-based ” Healing Place” is teaming up with the national organization, “Faces and Voices of Recovery” to talk about ways to improve recovery efforts locally. The Field Director for “Faces and Voices,” Tom Coderre was in Louisville recently to help generate grassroots activities leading up to the HBO special. WFPL’s Julie Goodwin’s spoke with Tom Coderra about the program.
Maned Wolves
The endangered species of maned wolves added another trio last month, as a litter was born at the Louisville Zoo. The pups are not available for viewing yet, in part because of the cold weather, but General Animal Curator Steven Wing also says they are pretty helpless their first few months. There are only one hundred maned wolves in this country – now five of them live at the Louisville Zoo. Tune in to Studio 619 as Steven Wing talks about the pups with WFPL’s Heidi Caravan.
Grawemeyer Awards
The Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition is among the most highly sought and revered prizes in music. It’s awarded annually, through an anonymous process, to a composer and their composition that has been premiered in the previous four years.
Karolyn Smardz Frost
In 1985 Karolyn Smardz Frost began a journey she calls her passion. As the director of an archaeological dig in Toronto, she oversaw the excavation Thornton and Lucie Blackburn’s house. In 1831 the Blackburns were Kentucky slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad. For two people who simply wanted to be free and together, they changed history from Michigan to Toronto. Listen in as WFPL’s Robin Fisher talks with Smardz Frost about her new book “I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad”.
