Roughly Speaking

Sun columnist Dan Rodricks and American culture commentator Sheri Parks comment on the third and final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of the busiest places on the planet. It has been in operation, educating public health officials and doctors, conducting research and saving millions of lives, for 100 years. As part of its centennial commemorations, the staff at Bloomberg compiled a list of 100 objects that shaped public health over the last century. We go over some of them — from the obvious to the obscure — with our health contributor, Dr. John Cmar of Sinai Hospital.Links:http://www.globalhealthnow.org/100-objectshttp://www.lifebridgehealth.org/Main/LifeBridgeHealthPhysicianDirectory/Cmar-John-MD-651.aspx

Brendan Dorr, who tends bar at the B----O American Brasserie and serves as president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, showed up at The Baltimore Sun with five brands of rye for a tasting. On today's show: The results of that memorable recording session — plus the recipe for Brendan’s featured cocktail of the month, The Scofflaw.

In 1984, Pamela Rigby and her mother, Vivian Rigby, were winning bidders of a 19th-century photo album at an auction on Baltimore's Antiques Row. They soon discovered that the woman who had started and maintained the album, Fannie Keene, was a former slave who had lived most of her life in Missouri. The Rigbys went about trying to identify the dozens of men, women and children whose formal portraits appear in the album, and they had some success. But many of the people are still unidentified.By taking her project public, Pam Rigby hopes to continue her late mother's work, connecting African-Americans with the ancestors they likely never knew. Rigby has published a book about the album and her efforts to identify the people pictured in it. The book is, "Waiting To Be Found: The Lost Treasure of Fannie Keene." Pam Rigby has a website devoted to her project, and she hopes to reach people whose family roots were in Missouri and Illinois. She is scheduled to speak in the Writers Live series at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore on Oct. 18. For a gallery of some of the images from the album, go to http://bsun.md/waiting-to-be-found.Links:http://waitingtobefound.comhttp://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/writers_live_pamela_rigby_waiting_to_be_found_the_lost_treasure_of_fannie_keenehttp://bsun.md/waiting-to-be-found

Reactions to last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — with Barry Rascovar of Political Maryland (1:20), plus mild-mannered Maryland Republican Richard Cross, and political analysts Melissa Deckman from Washington College and Kimberly Moffitt of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (16:20). We also talk about the 2005 videotape in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, something that has caused numerous Republican officials to distance themselves from their party’s candidate for president.

4:05: Will Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” be a box-office success or suffer from a boycott promised by the director’s critics? The movie, which tells the story of Nat Turner and the bloody slave rebellion he led in 1831, generated great buzz and garnered a lucrative Hollywood deal after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. While many feel compelled or obligated to see the movie, especially in this time of Black Lives Matter and heightened tensions about race relations, others have vowed boycott because of Parker’s history with a sexual assault case. As his star rose this summer, details emerged about the rape charge Parker faced — and was acquitted of — while a student-athlete at Penn State in the late 1990s. Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed discuss the film and the controversy.23:17: The Sun’s media critic, David Zurawik, talks about television coverage of the baseball playoffs, the format for Sunday night’s Clinton-Trump debate and the growing role of social media as a source for political news.49:17: Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed review “The Girl On The Train,” a sex-lies-and-murder mystery starring Emily Blunt, based on the best-selling psychological thriller of the same title by Paula Hawkins.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-shipp-0824-20160823-story.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-pitts-birth-nation-20160901-story.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/nate-parker-and-the-limits-of-empathy.htmlhttp://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/09/30/poll-for-many-trump-watchers-the-social-media-is-the-message/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-girl-train-review-20160930-snap-story.html

A conversation with Joshua Harris, the Green Party candidate for mayor of Baltimore in November’s general election. In his campaign, Harris has pushed a plan to create a public bank to provide capital to finance local projects. He also wants to attract clean-energy manufacturing jobs and “transform a blue-collar town into a green-collar town.” Harris, a Chicago native, sits on the boards of Southwest Partnership, Charles Village Urban Renewal Plan Community Review Board and Paul’s Place Community Advisory Board. He co-founded Hollins Creative Placemaking, which aims to revitalize the historic Hollins Market community.Links:http://www.harrisforbaltimore.com/

1:46: Baltimore Sun sports columnist Peter Schmuck talks about last night’s American League wild-card game, won with a walk-off home run by the Blue Jays’s Edwin Encarnacion off the Orioles’ Ubaldo Jimenez. With the Orioles eliminated from postseason play, there are two big questions today, one about the immediate past, the other about next season: Why did manager Buck Showalter leave ace closer Zach Britton in the bullpen, and where do the Orioles go from here?20:24: Sun reporter Justin George gives some background on his in-depth look at gun crimes in American cities, including Baltimore, and the growing lethality of gunfire. George’s series, “Shoot To Kill,” shows Baltimore to be one of the most lethal of America's largest cities while Washington and New Orleans shared the brutal distinction of one in three shootings ending in a homicide in 2015.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-orioles-blue-jays-wild-card-game-20161004-story.htmlhttp://data.baltimoresun.com/news/shoot-to-kill/

Saul Zaentz was a Hollywood producer who won three Academy Awards for Best Picture: "The English Patient," "Amadeus," and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest." He died in 2014, leaving behind a foundation that, among other things, established a new film incubator at Johns Hopkins University. Launched in March with a $1 million grant, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media supports prospective filmmakers and audio/visual artists who submit ideas for projects and get some mentoring before going into production. We hear about some of the fellows and their unique projects from Roberto Bus\u243\u-Garc\u237\ua, director of the fund and the Hopkins Master of Arts in Film ---- Media program.Links:http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/04/entertainment/la-et-mn-saul-zaentz-oscar-winning-producer-dead-at-92-20140104http://zaentzfund.com/http://krieger.jhu.edu/film-media/directory/roberto-buso-garcia/

Today on the show, Dan catches up with the Sun’s media critic David Zurawik to talk about last Monday’s televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. With Clinton widely seen as the winner of that debate -- well prepared, with attacks on Trump’s record that seemed to stick and keep him on the defensive for the rest of the week — what will the next debate might bring? The second debate, with CNN’s Anderson Cooper as host, is scheduled for a week from Sunday.Baltimore County librarian Paula Gallagher is back with three books recommendations, including a new novel by Emma Donoghue, author of “Room,” another by Carolyn Pankhurst, and a superb nonfiction book about lobotomy and the disturbing history of psychosurgery.