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October 22, 2017: three Kansas State University alumni on the front lines address issues facing colleges and universities today, in this Landon Lecture on Public Affairs.

It's the KPR Presents Book Club -- the radio version! Join us for a conversation with Dr. Rebekah Taussig, author of "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body."

Dolly Parton: country music superstar, pop culture icon, and...feminist? Best-selling Kansas author Sarah Smarsh joins us to talk about "She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs."

If you were a Major League Baseball player, what song would you choose to play as you approach the batter's box? We've asked KPR staffers to pick their own walk-up songs in the second part of this two-part series.

Basketball legend Byron Scott, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers, and business executive Charles Norris team up for lessons on and off the basketball court. The two are co-authors of "Slam Dunk Success: Leading from Every Position on Life's Court."

We celebrate National Poetry Month with Danny Caine, author of "El Dorado Freddy's." We'll also hear from Lawrence author Bryn Greenwood about "The Reckless Oath We Made."

"The Queen's Gambit" won 11 Emmy Awards last week. On this week's KPR Presents, it's the book behind the hit Netflix series, from the KPR Presents Book Club.

It's the final installment in our 2021 Kansas Notable Book series, with two books that take us back to Kansas in the late 1800s, plus a picture book by Wichita cartoonist Grant Snider.

We meet Audrey Coleman, the new director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. We'll also visit with Dole Fellow Bob Blaemire, who is leading the Dole Institute's Spring Discussion Series, "Giants of the Senate."

On the latest episode of Kansas 1972: the Tall Grass Prairie, Kansas salt mines, nuclear waste, and environmental activism. Also, a conversation with Jennifer Leeper, author of The Poison of War.