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This week on KPR Presents, Senator Pat Roberts and challenger Jim Slattery face off in their first debate of this campaign season. This debate was held at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson on September 6th, 2008. KPR Presents can be heard 8:00 Sunday evenings on Kansas Public Radio.

On this week's KPR Presents, we travel back in time to Civil War Kansas to visit with Clarina Nichols, a nationally-known speaker on abolition, womens' suffrage, and prohibition. Clarina Nichols is portrayed by Diane Eickoff, the author of Revolutionary Heart, which tells the story of this amazing woman who moves from Vermont to the new state of Kansas. This presentation was part of the first River City Reading Festival. Engineer(s): Kaye McIntyre

On this edition of Conversations, Sandra Brown talks with host Dan Skinner about her latest novel, "Thick as Thieves." Brown is the author of 71 New York…

Sara Paretsky returns to her Lawrence roots in her latest novel, Bleeding Kansas. This acclaimed mystery author spoke on Why I Write the Books I Do at the Lawrence Arts Center on January 22, 2008. Engineer(s): KU Media Services

In his 30+ years as a film composer Franz Waxman created music for such films as The Bride of Frankenstein, Captains Courageous, Sunset Boulevard, A Place…

This investigative journalist won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for exposing the massacre of innocent civilians at My Lai, Vietnam. More recently, he won national acclaim for uncovering the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Hersh received the William Allen White Foundation 2008 National Citation; hear his remarks on KPR Presents 8:00 Sunday evening on Kansas Public Radio. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

Former anchor and managing editor of NBC News for 21 years, Brokaw is the author of The Greatest Generation and Boom: Voices of the Sixties. Brokaw gave the 2008 Dole Lecture on April 10th at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

1 August: The Great Career of the French Coloratura Soprano Natalie Dessay It is claimed that Natalie Dessay is now the most famous French singer in the world. After studying music and voice at the Bordeaux Conservatory, she has gone on swiftly to a wonderful international operatic career, starting by winning the International Mozart competition at Vienna. Her brilliant coloratura voice soon found her singing opera and concerts at Paris, Lyons, and La Scala, Milan. By 1994, when she was about thirty, she was singing at the Met, and nowadays she is in demand all over the world to sing the role of Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's ARIADNE AUF NAXOS. This year she is also very busy in bel-canto roles such as Lucia in Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Engineer(s): Chubias Smith

With the 2008 Summer Olympics just weeks away, we turn to China this week on KPR Presents. Zhou Wenzhong spoke at Kansas State University as a Landon Lecturer on February 11, 2008, about the challenges that China faces in the decades ahead, and the future of East-West relations. Engineer(s): Kansas State Radio Network

On this edition of Conversations, J. C. Cervantes talks with host Dan Skinner about the final book in the Storm Runner Trilogy, “The Shadow Crosser.”…