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Anecdotal stories are often powerful and convincing. Unfortunately, they're just that...stories. Anecdotal experience can be particularly misleading with chronic diseases. Dr. Wykoff talks about anecdotal evidence.

We look back on some of the pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the South, with Odessa Woolfolk, founding Director of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

We visit with Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Her book, It Goes So Fast: The Year of No Do-Overs, which was originally published in 2023, comes out in paperback on April 8, 2025, from Henry Holt and Company.

It’s an instrument closely identified with the Appalachian Mountains, and our guest is a popular proponent of it in East Tennessee. We learn all about the dulcimer, from singer, songwriter, and teacher Roxanne McDaniel.

About two-thirds of Americans wear glasses, including over 90% of Americans over 65. Additionally, about one million Americans are blind, and over three million are visually impaired. This ranks among the top 10 disabilities in the United States. Dr. Wykoff has six steps to protect your vision.

In part two of our interview, Dr. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, discusses his interest in meteorites.

We learn more about the inner workings of such television classics as “The Brady Bunch” from producer Lloyd Schwartz.

We learn about Nigerian cooking, as it is practiced by an entrepreneurial couple here in East Tennessee.

We get a vivid picture of what daily life was like for a tank commander during World War II through a recently edited collection of his letters to his parents back in East Tennessee.

We talk with NPR’s Laura Sullivan, producer and host of the new NPR-PBS “Frontline” documentary entitled “Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning.”