
KPR Presents (archived episodes)
This is a list of old episodes. For new episodes, starting in December 2022, go to KPR Present.
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With over 20 years covering the White House for CBS, CNN, and Fox News, Major Garrett has had a front-row seat to the past four presidencies. In this Dole Institute of Politics event, Garrett speaks on the twists and turns of covering our nation’s highest office, and his latest book, “Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride.”
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It's a literary double-header on this week's KPR Presents: poet Terrance Hayes, National Book Award winner, and Lawrence native Andrew Malan Milward, author of I Was a Revolutionary.
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Carly Fiorina -- former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company -- on character, leadership, and what she learned running for president in 2016.
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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.
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How do you convey complex ideas about science...on the radio? NPR science correspondent Joe Palca spoke at Kansas State University's Science Communication Week.
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This week on KPR Presents: Rob Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and University of Kansas graduate. Kaplan gave the Anderson Chandler lecture at the KU Business School on October 3rd, 2018.
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100 years ago this week, Kansas ratified the 19th Amendment, giving women across the country full voting rights. This week on KPR Presents, the long, hard-fought road to women's suffrage.
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We celebrate the 10th anniversary of Cinema-a-Go-Go with KPR's own Darrell Brogdon, preview some area theater offerings, and talk Tony Awards.
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75 years ago this week, 150,000 Allied troops stormed the German-occupied beaches of Normandy, France. This week on KPR Presents, we mark the 75th anniversary of the largest one-day amphibious operation in U.S. history.
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We mark Memorial Day with "World War I Ghost Soldier," a first-person narrative by David Tangeman of Topeka.