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On this edition of Conversations, David Baldacci talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest novel, “Daylight.” Baldacci is a global #1 bestselling…

The Kansas Legislature convened their 2013 session this week, with the issues of education funding, state taxes, and judicial selection on the forefront. This week on KPR Presents, Governor Brownback lays out his priorities for the term ahead in this rebroadcast of his State of the State address. We'll also hear the Democratic response from Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, and analysis from KPR News Director J. Schafer and University of Kansas political science professor Burdett Loomis.

Lincoln, Richard Norton Smith

Did you miss this week's KPR event with National Public Radio White House correspondent Scott Horsley? He spoke about covering presidential campaigns, reporting from the White House, and his work at NPR. We'll broadcast his conversation with Bill Lacy, Director of the Dole Institute of Politics on this week's KPR Presents, 8 p.m. Sunday evening.

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On this edition of Conversations, Allyson Johnson talks with host Dan Skinner about the second edition of National Geographic's “Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Road Trips.”

(Photo Courtesy of the Dole Institute of Politics)The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, is in the news this week as Vice President Joe Biden visits this often-troubled South American country. What you may not know is that President Santos is a Jayhawk, graduating from the University of Kansas in 1973. He returned to his alma mater recently to speak at KU's Dole Institute of Politics. You can hear him on this week's KPR Presents, 8 Sunday evening on KPR, 3 Sunday afternoon on our HD service, KPR2.

On this edition of Conversations, Ric Averill talks with host Dan Skinner about the Theatre Lawrencepresentation of the musical, “The 1940s Radio Hour.”…

Historian Richard Norton Smith returns to the University of Kansas for the 2013 Dole Presidential Lecture series. This week's KPR Presents is the first in this three-part series, focusing on our nation's first president, George Washington. Do join us for the next three KPR Presents as Richard Norton Smith talks about the first three men to lead our nation: Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.