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The Free State Festival is right around the corner! Join us for a sneak peek at this five-day celebration of film, music, art, and ideas, taking place in Lawrence on June 25th-29th. We'll visit with Susan Tate, CEO of the Lawrence Arts Center, and Ben Ahlvers, Director of the Free State Festival. We'll also talk to Marlo Angell, LAC Director of Digital Media, about some of the many films that will be screened during the Festival.

On this week's Film Music Friday we enter the world of the B-movie, where time, money and inspiration are often in short supply. However, despite working…

We might think of it today as a wasteland of ice and penguins, but Antarctica once was covered in greenery. Paleobotanist Brian Atkinson explains how to…

Next week marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One. We'll visit the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, find out how the University of Kansas was affected by the War, and talk to Washburn University history professor Tom Prasch about how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand precipitated the "July Crisis" which led to global war. This program is the second in a two-part series; the first part, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand and broadcast on June 29, is archived below.

December 20, 2020

We celebrate the season on this round of Film Music Friday, with tunes from classic Christmas movies, including It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th…

We say good-bye to 2020 with a look back at the top Kansas news stories of the year, with help from the Kansas News Service.

On this encore broadcast of Film Music Friday we leap into the music of the swashbucklers, those larger-than-life adventure films from Hollywood's Golden…

January 2, 2021 (rebroadcast)

Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, how're you doing? We hear from KPR listeners in this special rebroadcast of Quarantine Stories, your self-recorded thoughts, essays, and poems.