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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.

Join us for a conversation with Lucas Bessire, author of Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, a finalist for the National Book Award and a 2022 Kansas Notable Book. We'll also get a sneak peek at the Kansas Book Festival with Tim Bascom.

What did photographers Gordon Parks and Terry Evans see when they looked at their home state? It's the latest episode of "Kansas 1972," produced by Kara Heitz.

We mark the 70th anniversary of KANU, the flagship station of Kansas Public Radio. It's a trip down Memory Lane in the second of a two-part series, highlighting some of the programs and challenges KPR has faced over the years.