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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.

Just over a year ago, a group of physicists at CERN, Switzerland, made a momentous announcement: they'd found the Higgs boson, popularly known as "the God Particle." Astrophysicist Sean Carroll takes us behind the scenes at the search for the Higgs boson, a discovery that took $9 billion, decades of effort, and the work of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Join us at 8:00 as Dr. Carroll gives the 11th Annual Bartlett Lecture at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. Audio of this lecture was provided by The VideoWorks, Inc., of Roeland Park, with permission of the Linda Hall Library.

Questions about your teenager? Need some tips for getting your kid ready for the new school year? Looking for advice as your teen heads off to college? Psychologist Dr. Wes Crenshaw answers YOUR questions on this week's KPR Presents. He writes the popular "Double Take" column, published weekly in the Lawrence Journal-World, and is the author of Dear Dr. Wes: Real Advice for Teens and Dear Dr. Wes: Real Advice for Parents of Teens. He'll be joined in the KPR studios by his newest student columnist, Lawrence High School senior Kendra Schwartz.

These are the first buildings on what is now the Emporia State and Kansas State University campuses. The ' Stone Building' (left) housed what was then known as the Normal School and was dedicated on Jan. 2, 1867, in Emporia. This Bluemont College (which would later become KSU) building photo was taken in 1867.Kansas State University and Emporia State University are celebrating their sesquicentennials this year. This week on KPR Presents, Kaye McIntyre travels to Manhattan and Emporia to find out what the Wildcats and Hornets are doing to mark their 150th anniversaries.

December 5, 2020

On this edition of Conversations, Jeff Lindsay talks with host Dan Skinner about the second novel in his new series of thrillers, featuring Riley Wolfe,…