Harvard's Dr. Richard Thomas teaches a course on Bob Dylan. He discusses the new Bob Dylan album "Rough and Rowdy Ways" and his biography "Why Bob Dylan Matters."

Originally aired on WYTX-FM 6/20/20. Guests: Author Douglas Abrams who coauthored "The Book of Joy" with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama; Dr. Benjamin Hardy, "Personality Isn't Permanent"; author Mike Maden, "Tom Clancy's Firing Point"; Author Steve Phillips, "Brown is teh New White."

Originally aired on WYTX-FM 6/13/20. Guests: Harvard Neurosurgeon Dr. Aaron Berkowitz, "One by One by One"; Child psychologist Dr. Abigail Gewertz on how to talk to your kids about scary times; Author Stephen Haff, "Kid Quixotes"; Author Katherine Snow Smith "Rules of the Southern Rulebreaker"; Going to the doctor during the pandemic.

Originally aired on WYTX-FM 5/30/20. Guests: Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"; Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield"; Increased anxiety due to the Coronavirus pandemic, 3 different mental health experts on the subject.

Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna bass player Jack Casady.

Originally broadcast on WYTX-FM 5/16/20. Guests: PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, her new book "Animalkind"; NPR/New York Times contributor and author Walter Thompson-Hernandez, "The Compton Cowboys"; Brian Connell, Director of Government Affairs for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society on how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected cancer patients, author Suzanne Nugent, "Brunch and Other Obligations"; looking back at the career of Little Richard; Kelly Coakley, Accelerate SC.

A crime novel of the opioid epidemic--and its cops, villains, and victims--written by a twenty-five-year veteran of the DEA.

Aired on WYTX-FM 5/9/20. Guests: Polish journalist and author Witold Szlablowski, "How to Feed a Dictator"; Robbie Barbaro, "Mastering Diabetes"; Grant Smith, "Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat Notebook"; The Beatles "Let it Be" turns 50.

Episode aired on WYTX-FM 5/2/20: Guests: Eddie Huffman, author of the John Prine biography "In Spite of Himself"; Dr. Jim Bell, author of "Hubble Legacy"; Nutritionist Talia Pollock, "Party in Your Plants".

The Compton Cowboys is a story about trauma and transformation, race and identity, compassion, and ultimately, belonging. Walter Thompson-Hernández paints a unique and unexpected portrait of this city, pushing back against stereotypes to reveal an urban community in all its complexity, tragedy, and triumph.