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Prairie Journal
Hosted by Kaye McIntyre · EN
Prairie Journal is an opportunity to showcase high-profile, thought-provoking lectures, discussions and dialogues recorded throughout the region. There are so many fascinating people who come to this area, everyone from Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts. Prairie Journal is a great way to share some of those lectures with our listeners. We have also been able to expand the program to cover a broad range of topics, including the Kansas Sesquicentennial, the National Day of Listening and the Kansas Reads program sponsored by the State Library of Kansas, just to name a few.
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Free State Festival
2w ago00:28:55Tap to summarizeMovies, music, and more! It's time for the 2026 Free State Festival, a week-long celebration of independent films taking place June 22nd-28th. Festival director Marlo Angell joins us to talk about this year's FSF theme: The Revolution Will Be at the Movies!
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Soccer: The Boundless Game
2w ago00:29:01Tap to summarizeThe World Cup is here! Tim Bascom explores the universal appeal of the game in his book "The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World."
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Petticoat Governments in Kansas
3w ago00:44:21Tap to summarizeIn the late 1880s, Kansas voters did something almost no other state was doing: they elected women to local office. This episode of Per Aspera follows three of those elections: how Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in the United States after being nominated as a joke, as well as wins in Oskaloosa and Baldwin City. Per Aspera is a Kansas history series produced by Kara Heitz and the Kansas 250 Commission.
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1966 Topeka Tornado: 60 Years Later
3w ago00:59:43Tap to summarizeThis week marks the 60th anniversary of an F5 tornado that ripped through Topeka, killing 17 people, injuring hundreds more, and destroying homes, cars, and buildings in the heart of the city. We look back on June 8, 1966, with Bonar Menninger, author of "And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado," and with journalist Bill Kurtis, on the air at WIBW the night of the devastating storm.
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Bill Kurtis, Whirlwind
May 2500:58:05Tap to summarizeAs Bill Kurtis marks his last weekend as scorekeeper for NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," we revisit KPR's book launch event for his memoir, "Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News."
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Kansas 250 Bookshelf
May 2200:27:30Tap to summarizeOur Kansas 250 Bookshelf series continues with two books for kids and teens: Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey and A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo.
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Kansas Trails Inc.
May 1800:04:21Tap to summarizeKPR's Community Spotlight is on Kansas Trails Inc. this month. KPR's Kaye McIntyre visits with Mike Scanlon, executive director.
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The Gift of a Broken Heart
May 1800:26:25Tap to summarizeA father's story of love, grief, and lessons learned from loss. Bryan Welch of Lawrence is the author of The Gift of a Broken Heart: How Our Grief Can Connect Us.
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Scott Simon: Ulysses S. Cat
May 1300:09:15Tap to summarizeScott Simon is the host of NPR's Weekend Edition AND the author of several books, including the hot-off-the-press Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known.
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Ian Shaw, The End of the Dalton Gang
May 800:58:05Tap to summarizeHistorian Ian Shaw takes us back to Coffeyville in 1892, the double bank robbery that brought the Dalton Gang to an end, and the surprising story of the gang's lone survivor.
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