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It's a double-feature on this week's KPR Presents. We'll hear from activist Sandra Fluke, who gained national attention after testifying before Congress on health insurance coverage for birth control. Fluke gave this year's Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad Women's Leadership Lecture at the University of Kansas. We'll also hear from Lawrence author Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone, the best-selling novel about silent film star Louise Brooks and her journey from Wichita to New York City. Moriarty just kicked off a national book tour for The Chaperone, which has just been released in paperback.

Each episode of the new Max series covers one hour in a single day in a busy emergency department. The show manages to feel sympathetic to the hospital staff and to the patients in their care.

UFOs above the sky in Kansas City? Maybe. Several dozen eyewitnesses claim to have seen unidentified flying objects earlier this week in Kansas City, Lee's Summit and Raytown, Missouri. Margie Kay is a Missouri-based spokeswoman for an organization called MUFON (moo-FON) -- the Mutual UFO Network. Kay says a team of UFO investigators has converged on Kansas City to speak with the eyewitnesses.Kay says some -- but not all -- of the UFO sightings may have a more Earthly explanation. She says in one case, eyewitnesses may have observed military planes or other aircraft. Some planes were known to be flying in formation in the area.

As families consider how far to push an infant's medical care, a chasm can open between the parents' hopes and what doctors and nurses consider realistic. How do you measure a baby's quality of life?

On this edition of Conversations, Camilla Townsend talks with host Dan Skinner about “On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren.”

More new genres of Kansas music this week, with new tracks in jazz and a live performance of chamber music, featuring Opus 76 Quartet’s LG Desk Concert.

In 1931, Harry Powers killed two women and three children at his home in Quiet Dell, W.Va. Writer Jayne Anne Phillips learned about the murders from her mother, who was a child when the deaths became a media sensation. Phillips' new novel retells the tragedy through the eyes of a young reporter.

Caryl Phillips' new novel, set in the waning years of the British Empire, follows the perpetually alienated Rhys from her birthplace in the West Indies to England and then the Continent.

November 8, 2015: NASA's latest mission -- capturing an asteroid and bring it back to orbit around the moon. Steve Stich is in charge of ARM, NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission.