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Our guest is veteran actor Patrick Cronin, and our topic is the American television sitcom. Cronin has appeared in many classic ones including “All in the Family,” “Alice,” “Cheers,” “Mad About You,” and “Seinfeld.” This is part one of two programs.

Our subject is a new book, How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music. Guests are Alison Fensterstock, who edited the book, and Ann Powers, who wrote the introduction.

We learn about an Appalachian tradition, the making of dried apple stack cakes, from Jill Sauceman, who uses a 125-year-old Scott County, Virginia, recipe from her grandmother.

This is part two of our interview with Lloyd Schwartz, who was a producer of the television series “The Brady Bunch,” created by his father Sherwood Schwartz. Lloyd Schwartz also wrote for such classic television shows as “It’s About Time” and “Love, American Style.”

Our guest for the first of two programs is Lloyd Schwartz, producer of one of the most successful shows in television history, “The Brady Bunch,” which was created by his father, Sherwood Schwartz, who also created “Gilligan’s Island.”

We delve more deeply into the life and times of the late Chet Atkins, in part two of our interview with Don Cusic, author of the new biography, Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar, published in 2025 by the University of Georgia Press.

We look at the life and work of the late guitarist Chet Atkins, originally from Luttrell, Tennessee. Our guest is Belmont University professor Don Cusic, author of a new biography entitled Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar.

In part two of our discussion about prostate cancer, Dr. Kristen Scarpato, a urologic oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, talks about various treatment options.

His chairs are in use at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Virginia, and around the breakfast table in the Governor’s Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. Meet Curtis Buchanan, who has been making Windsor chairs in Jonesborough, Tennessee, for over 40 years.

In this special edition of “Vital Voices,” we hear stories in celebration of Native American Heritage Month.