We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing — calls about grammar, gardening, long-distance dialing, autotune. Anything. Everything.

These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we’re doing another one.

In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EST hour about whatever you want to talk about. 888-720-9677.‌

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Don’t Let The World Pass You By – Jean-Luc Ponty
• S’posin’ – Champian Fulton, Bria Skonberg
• Easy to Love – Jordan Rakei, Tom McFarland
• Beat Yourself Up – Charlie Puth
• Hard to Say – Chris Morrissey, Norah Jones
• Oh Qué Será? – Willie Colon
• We’re Still Here – Alan Doyle

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This hour, we look at what rights individuals and protesters have. And we ask: are our rights changing? And what can we do about that?

Plus, we take a look at what rights we have online, and what we should know about digital surveillance and privacy.

GUESTS:

• Dan Barrett: American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut's legal director
• Dahlia Lithwick: Writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast "Amicus". She is the author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
• Cindy Cohn: Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her forthcoming book is Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Cálice – Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento
• Student Demonstration Time – The Beach Boys
• Is It Because I’m Black – Syl Johnson
• What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
• The People Have the Power – Patti Smith
• The Veil – Peter Gabriel

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This hour, author and film critic Alissa Wilkinson joins us to talk about Joan Didion, Hollywood, and how we make sense of our politics.

GUEST:

• Alissa Wilkinson: Movie critic at The New York Times. Her latest book is We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

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Is Wuthering Heights “the greatest love story of all time?” Or is it a tale of hate, violence, and vengeance? Or maybe a gothic satire?

This hour we look at Emily Brontë’s novel and how it was received when it was published in 1847.

Plus, a look at the highest-grossing movie of the year so far — Emerald Fennell’s loosely adapted “Wuthering Heights” — and how it stacks up against other retellings.

GUESTS:

• Richard Brody: The movies editor for Goings On About Town at The New Yorker
• Claire O’Callaghan: Editor-in-chief of Brontë Studies and the author of Emily Brontë Reappraised
• Irene Papoulis: Taught writing for a long time at Trinity College

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Wuthering Heights – Cecile McLorin Salvant
• Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
• I Am Stretched on Your Grave – Eithne Ni Uallachain
• Out of Myself – Charli xcx
• Chains of Love – Charli xcx
• As Time Goes By – Julie London

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What would it mean if we treated rivers as alive? That's the question that nature writer Robert Macfarlane wrestles with in his latest book. What would happen if we took that aliveness seriously? How would we know what a river would want? Who would speak for it? These are questions that communities around the world are dealing with as they work to figure out how to protect rivers and the ecosystems that rely on them. This hour, Macfarlane joins us to talk about his book, Is a River Alive?, and the stories we tell about the natural world.

GUEST:

• Robert Macfarlane: Writer whose books include Underland: A Deep Time Journey, The Lost Words: A Spell Book, and The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. His new book is Is a River Alive?

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Biblical scholar James Tabor says that Mary – the mother of Jesus – is “the best known, least known woman in history.” This hour, we’ll get to know Mary a little better and talk about why some people are obsessed with preserving her purity at the expense of her humanity. And, we talk with (The Reverend) Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones from Emory University about Mary mythology, Black Madonnas and the myriad ways Mary is depicted in art and culture.

GUESTS:

• James D. Tabor is a biblical scholar, and a retired professor of religious studies at the University Of North Carolina at Charlotte. He’s the author of The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus.

• (The Rev.) Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones is Assistant Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at Emory University. She’s a constructive theologian and scholar of Black religion specializing in Mariology, Black feminist and womanist thought, and theological anthropology. She’s the author of Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology.

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Mary On A Cross – Ghost

• Along Comes Mary – The Association

• The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix

• Mary Rock the Baby – Jarell Smalls

• Like a Prayer – Madonna

• Lady Madonna (Theme from Grace Under Fire) – Aretha Franklin

• Mary, Did You Know? – The Braxtons

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We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls, calls about anything, everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one.

This hour, the conversation winds around to musicians, politics, jobs, journalism, planning for the future … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• The World Is A Ghetto – George Benson
• Desire – Kurt Elling, WDR Big Band
• Sambadouro – Ivan Lins
• Kindness Isn’t Common Sense – Katie Pruitt
• In the Still of the Night – Lauren Henderson, Sullivan Fortner
• Bags (Live at Electric Lady Studios) – Clairo
• CUT FOR TIME Blues Be Gone – Hayes Carll
• Next Spring – Lucy Yeghiazaryan

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the third series in the A Song of Ice and Fire television franchise. It is set about 90 years before Game of Thrones and almost 80 years after House of the Dragon. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin and based on the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas by Martin.

And: Hamnet is the fifth feature film written and directed by Chloé Zhao. The screenplay is by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell and based on O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. It stars Jessie Buckley as Agnes and Paul Mescal as her husband, Will Shakespeare. Hamnet is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

GUESTS:

• Rebecca Castellani: Co-founder of Quiet Corner Communications and the director of marketing at Washington Montessori School
• Taneisha Duggan: Director of arts, culture, and entertainment for the city of Hartford
• Tracy Wu Fastenberg: Associate vice president for development at Connecticut Children’s

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Bonny Sweet Boy – Les Witches
• What Do the Simple Folk Do? – Camelot
• Main Title (from the HBO Series Game of Thrones) – Ramin Djawadi
• Ophelia – The Lumineers
• On the Nature of Daylight – Max Richter
• See You On The Radio – Grayson Hugh

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