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Week of April 1, 2018: 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 media is a frequent target of President Trump. On this KPR Presents, the press pushes back. Four White House correspondents talk about the importance of a free press in America today in this event sponsored by the Truman Library Institute.

Moral philosopher and public intellectual Kwame Anthony Appiah kicks off KU's Hall Center for the Humanities Summer Speaker Series this week (virtually). In this encore presentation from the KPR Presents archives, we revisit Appiah's 2007 Hall Center Lecture, "Making Sense of Moral Conflict."

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women across the country full voting rights. Join us for a conversation about the long, hard-fought road to women's suffrage, with University of Kansas professor Teri Finneman and Jacquie Lightcap of the League of Women Voters of Kansas.

We travel back to the 1970s, the "February Sisters," the fight for women's rights at the University of Kansas. We'll also hear about an exhibit at the Watkins Museum of History on the struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1970s.

What was behind a spike in UFO sightings in Kansas 50 years ago? Find out on the latest episode of "Kansas 1972." Also, a conversation with John Roy Price, author of "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy."

Lawrence filmmaker Stephen Lerner is launching a series of meetings across Kansas to confront "climate anxiety." Also, the Space Race comes to Kansas on the latest episode of "Kansas 1972."

NPR has released its 10th annual "Books We Love" list, which includes the story of the grisly murders that shocked southeast Kansas and the nation 150 years ago. Susan Jonusas is the author of Hell's Half-Acre: A Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier.

On this edition of Conversations, Topeka Civic Theatre Artistic Director Shannon Reilly talks with host Dan Skinner about upcoming performances.

On this edition of Conversations, Chrissie Krebs talks with host Dan Skinner about "Bizard and the Big Bunny Bizness."