Sick — an investigative podcast looking at "what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy" — has just wrapped up Season Two...all of which was focused on the intersection of health care and prisons.

Dr. Christine Montross discusses her well-researched, quite unsettling, and very important book, "Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration."

Novelist TaraShea Nesbit offers "Beheld," now out in paperback, which looks at the Mayflower Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony from the various perspectives of only female characters.

As National Public Radio this year turns 50, Lisa Napoli offers a group biography of Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts.

Dr. Adam Stern, a psychiatrist at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joins us to discuss his memoir, a candid and engrossing reflection on his residency at Harvard.

Our two guests, both based in OKC, are noted experts: Wanda Felty is with OU's Center for Learning and Leadership, and RoseAnn Duplan is with the Oklahoma Disability Law Center.

Jude Stewart's new book, "Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell," engagingly and vividly explores the whole experience of — and the whole scientific/biological process of — olfaction.

The London-based curator and writer Lou Stoppard joins us to discuss her latest New Yorker Magazine article: "What Should Hang on the Walls of a Hospital?"

John Sipher, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and retired CIA officer, spoke recently at the TCFR on "Putin's War vs. the U.S.: A Product of the 'Intelligence State'?"

A conversation with the acclaimed pop/classical conductor, Sarah Hicks, who will be the guest conductor at the TSO's "Symphonic Poetry" concert.