The Roundtable

Saratoga Shakespeare’s Artistic Director, Bill Finlay, joins us along with actors Sarah Luz Cordoba and Patricia Culbert to discuss their production of Twelfth Night. The show opens in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, on July 17 for a two-week run on the Alfred Z. Solomon Stage.

Suzanna Hermans from Oblong Books and Music is back with a great list of Summer reads.

Mary Huber joins us in Studio A to talk about the upcoming Jane Austen Edventure to England in January.

We speak with Tanner Colby about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America.

Paul Elisha speaks with Jay Rogoff about The Art of Gravity: Poems
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Washington Mutual's collapse was the biggest bank failure in the nation's history. Why was Washington Mutual allowed to fail when other banks got bailed out? Author Kirsten Grind joins us to talk about her new book on the untold story of Washington Mutual, The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History.

Many observers say recent jobs numbers aren’t doing the President any favors.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Nan Hayworth tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that the country has plenty of potential to create more jobs.

The Games in Education Symposium is a multi-day symposium that focuses on the topic of using video games to supplement and inspire in-classroom education. Tobi Saulnier - Founder and CEO at 1st Playable Productions and Matt Nolin - lead coordinator of the symposium - join us to tell us more.

Leslie Ferrin (director of Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield and Project Art, a live/work and artist in residence program in Cummington, MA), Hope Sullivan (Executive Director of IS183 Art School of the Berkshires), and Jonathan Secor (Director MCLA's Berkshire Cultural Resource Center and Downstreet Art) join us to talk about ArtBerkshires and this Summer's programming.

What can we do to make it easier for third party candidates to get on the ballot?