How are Kansas women doing? A KC-based organization is launching a series of town halls to find out. Plus, a new book from award-winning artist Stephen T. Johnson of Lawrence.

He's a neurosurgeon, an Emmy-Award winning journalist, and the latest recipient of the prestigious William Allen White National Citation. Today on KPR Presents, Dr. Sanjay Gupta's remarks at WAW Day at the University of Kansas. We'll also learn about the connection between Kansas and one of the most iconic images of fighting wildfires: Smokey Bear.

On the latest episode of Kansas 1972: the Tall Grass Prairie, Kansas salt mines, nuclear waste, and environmental activism. Also, a conversation with Jennifer Leeper, author of The Poison of War.

This week on KPR Presents: "KU for Ukraine." Join us for an hour of personal stories, poems, and music in support of students and scholars displaced by the war in Ukraine.

This week on KPR Presents: pies, the pandemic, and community. It's a conversation with Meg Heriford, owner of the Ladybird Diner in downtown Lawrence and author of "Ladybird, Collected." Heriford's book was the first selection of the KPR Presents Book Club.

We celebrate National Poetry Month with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. We also visit the Tonganoxie Historical Museum and their new exhibit, "Living Sovereignty."

This week on KPR Presents, it's the KPR Presents Book Club! Join us for a conversation about Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, with Polli Kenn of the Lawrence Public Library and David Mai of the KU Film and Media Studies Department.

Week of April 3, 2022: We get a sneak peek at the Free State Festival and the Paper Plains Literary Festival.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed away last week at the age of 84. In this special encore broadcast from the KPR Presents archives, we revisit Albright's 2006 talk at the University of Kansas Lied Center, sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics.

We travel back 50 years to "Kansas 1972" and the fight for the ERA in Kansas. It's the fourth episode of "Kansas 1972," a continuing series from Humanities Kansas.