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Friday, January 3, 2020 – We’re looking back on the best of 2019, and today we’re revisting a conversation about the book, “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.” Author Matti Freedman is a Canadian and Israeli journalist, based in Jerusalem. ~~~ We visit with News Director Dave Thompson about the week’s biggest stories. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews two sharply different films, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” and “Little Women.”

Thursday, January 2, 2020 – “Abandoned North Dakota: Weathered by Time” is a new book from Arcadia Publishing. The author is meteorologist and photographer Zachary Hargrove of Bismarck. He joins us to discuss his fascinations with weather and photography and how they contributed to the book’s stunning collection of beautiful photos. ~~~ In this week’s Natural North Dakota, Chuck Lura has the finch forecast. ~~~ Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today, shares his thoughts on how and Indian

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 – The world's climate is changing and it's having some profound effects on what the future may hold for us. Today we are reairing a conversation from February with somebody who is intensely interested in this topic and writes about it from the perspective of public lands in the United States of America. Stephen (steven) Nash wrote the book Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands Versus Private Interest in the Era of Climate Change. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay,

Monday, December 30, 2019 – This month’s Journalists Roundtable wraps up 2019. Joining us is special guest Jack Zaleski, columnist and former editorial page editor for the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, and Steve Andrist, executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association. They join host Doug Hamilton and Prairie Public news director Dave Thompson.

Friday, December 27, 2019 – It was December 29, 1890 when the US Army massacred upwards of three hundred of Lakota people, many women and children. It was a horrendous day in US history and one worth commemorating. For Dr. David Treuer, a writer and professor, though we add insult to injury when we only remember the tragedies. We revisit a conversation with him from February about his book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: The Story of Native America from 1890 to the Present. ~~~ Mark Trahant,

Thursday, December 26, 2019 – Scott Prebys hosts Prebys on Classics and Prebys on Jazz. He’s in studio today to reflect on the year in music. ~~~ It’s been a tough couple of years for ND soybean farmers. We air a conversation with Joe Morken, president of the North Dakota Soybean Council as he visits with Prairie Pulse Host John Harris. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here with a Main Street Eats conversation about New Year’s cake.

Wednesday, December 25, 2019 – On this Christmas Day we’ll meet and father daughter duo using their faith and humanity to help those in need. Sawyer Anderson and her dad Mark joined us in July to share how they’re helping fund wells in Zambi with the book, Water Works: An American Girl’s Journey to Bring Clean Water to Africa . ~~~ In this week’s Natural North Dakota, biologist Chuck Lura takes a look at life under the ice. ~~~ We share another best of 2019 interview. Dr. Terry Oswalt traveled

Tuesday, December 24, 2019 – Holidays aren’t the holidays without music. We share an excerpt from the show With Good Reason about favorite seasonal songs. ~~~ During the holidays, we tend to spend a lot of time with family. We may start telling family stories and get curious to know more. Many turn to genetic testing. Back in May, we spoke with Wendy Roth, who traveled to North Dakota to lecture on "The Social Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing". She’s an Associate Professor of Sociology at the

Sunday, December 22, 2019 – In our Sunday highlight show, we share our conversation about the 2019 additions to the National Film Registry with Prairie Public’s Matt Olien and film professor Greg Carlson of Concordia College. ~~~ Bruce Berg shares a humbug Christmas essay about Holiday letters vs. phone calls. ~~~ We share a Christmas essay from Eliza Blue's series, Postcards from the Prairie.

Friday, December 20, 2019 – Bruce Gjovig joins us for a discussion of “innovative Entrepreneurs of North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota.” Bruce co-wrote the book with Dr. Hiram Drache, longtime historian in residence at Concordia College. The book profiles 76 entrepreneurs, from the Dalrymple bonanza farm of the 1870s to technology innovators of today. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay, “Football, Flax, and the Far Frontier.” ~~~ News director Dave Thompson is here with our weekly news