On this edition of InFocus, Mountain Stage Artistic Director and host Larry Groce talks about an upcoming compilation album that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the program.

For 40-years, Mountain Stage has introduced public radio listeners to the best of live performance music from its home stage in Charleston, West Virginia. In celebration of the show's 40th Anniversary there's a new compilation album that releases on April 19, 2024. Larry talks about Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers.

Mountain Stage airs on WSIU Saturday at 5:00pm and Sunday at 10:00 am.

A new book chronicles the origin of public broadcasting as it grew out of the fledgling days of radio and TV in the 1920’s and 30’s.

Josh Shepperd is an assistant professor at the University Colorado Boulder and the Director of the Sound Submission Project at the Library of Congress. He talked with WSIU's Jeff Williams about his book “Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting."

Just about a month away from the region's second total solar eclipse in seven years, a new children's book helps prepare kids for the big event.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice we talk with Nebraska mom, Jayme Sandberg, who was inspired to write a children's book after experiencing the total solar eclipse in 2017. Her new book is "Total Solar Eclipse: A Stellar Friendship."

You can find out more about the book as well as its associated educational materials at www.solareclipsebook.com.

Have you ever heard of PAD? Chances are you haven't - even though it is the leading cause of amputations in the U.S. and impacts more than 12-million Americans annually. Peripheral Artery Disease also disproportionately impacts black and brown populations.

A new campaign, Get a Pulse on PAD, aims to raise awareness of Peripheral Artery Disease. WSIU's Jeff Williams recently talked with Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon and associate professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School about PAD.

More information is available online at https://padpulse.org.

To escape winter, many birds fly south. But for birds who choose to stay in southern Illinois they've developed some unique ways to cope with the cold.

Nature reporter Kevin Boucher talks with Avian Ecologist Dr. Jeff Hoover of the University of Illinois about some of the ways birds survive winter here in southern Illinois.

A new book is out about a southern Illinois family’s struggles with mental illness and the hope it offers for other families experiencing similar struggles.

The author is White County native Kandace Davis.

WSIU's Brad Palmer spoke with her about the book entitled Out of the Night that Covers Me.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice, Shelley Fraser Mickle talks about her new book White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America.

The book takes a closer look at the life and times of Alice Roosevelt – the eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt once said that "I can do one of two things – I can be president of the United States or I can control my daughter, Alice. I cannot possibly do both." In that vein, Shelley Fraser Mickle chronicles Alice's larger than life persona.

On this edition of In the Author's Voice, if you're still searching for that perfect Christmas gift, lifestyle expert Meaghan Murphy talks about what's trending for holiday gift giving and encourages shoppers to buy local.

Murphy is also an advocate of the wholesale online marketplace, Faire, that she says provides local retailers the opportunity to stock the latest trends in holiday gift giving - including a blast from the past.

MotorTrend is out with it's annual Car of the Year for 2024. WSIU's Jeff Williams talks with MotorTrend Senior Editor Aaron Gold about this year's top pick, the Toyota Prius.

In this edition of In The Author's Voice we talk with Vicki Cody about her new memoir "Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home."

For more than 30-years Vicki Cody was the anchor for her military family while her husband Dick, an Army Commander and ultimately four-star general, lead an Apache helicopter unit. Her new book looks at the life of a military family through the eyes of a wife and mother as well as those of a father and pilot in combat. It tells their story through the letters they exchanged while he was deployed during the first Gulf War .