Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Eric Marshall on the season ahead. LSU Manship School Dean Martin Johnson comments on the departure of Sheppard Smith at Fox News and upheaval at NBC two years after Today Show host Matt Lauer was ousted. National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien, the acclaimed novelist, reflects on the challenges of fatherhood late in life. 

Kimberly Neustrom, Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation, showcases a major gala. Author Lydia Pine on her book "Genunine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach us about Real Stuff". Susan Mailer, eldest daughter of Norman Mailer comments on his remarkable and controversial life. 

Candidate Belinda Davis on LA House District 70 runoff election against Barbara Freiberg. Noel Hammatt details tomorrow’s Baton Rouge Kiwanis Club's 70th Annual Pancake Breakfast which begins at 6 AM in the Carl Maddox Field House. Charles Bush on his film, Music Dreams An American Story, featuring Henry Turner Jr. and Turner’s influence on Baton Rouge Blues. 

LSU Journalism School Graduate Sydnie Kohara talks about anchoring network coverage for ABC when the San Francisco Earthquake hit the Bay Area 30 years ago tonight. Mark Ballard of the Advocate on the bid by businessman Lane Grigsby to buy Franklin Foil out of a contested race for Senate District 16. Pulitzer Prize winner James Stewart discusses his book “Deep State, Trump, the FBI and the Rule of Law." Adam St. Pierre and Andrew Tadman of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on Saturday’s 6th annual Maiker Faire.

Republican Political Consultant Roy Fletcher comments on the gubernatorial runoff between Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards and Republican Eddie Rispone and the prospective three way runoff for the Louisiana Senate with Democrat Beverly Brooks Thompson facing Republicans Steve Carter and Franklin Foil who tied for second place. Foil is Fletcher’s client. LSU Professor Vincent LiCata previews the SciArt New Science Play Festival at LSU. Capitol Park Museum Curator Joey David on exhibits featuring Martin Luther King’s hearse and the Canary Islands. 

Former Democratic Congressman Charles Melancon of Napoleonville on the death of moderates in American politics and the forecast for the Nov. 16 runoff for governor between John Bel Edwards and Eddie Rispone. Lizy Dastin, art history professor at UCLA, discusses the popularity of public art in our country and in Baton Rouge.

Republican Dan Claitor and Democrat Jim Nickel comment on the gubernatorial primary with Governor Edwards being forced into a runoff with challenger Eddie Rispone and Claitor’s vacated Senate now a tie between Franklin Foil and Steve Carter for second place behind Beverly Brooks Thompson. 

Public Service Commissioner and ranking Democrat Foster Campbell exchanges views with Republican activist Darrell Glasper, invited guest of the White House to tonight’s Trump rally in Lake Charles on the eve of Louisiana’s gubernatorial primary. Linda Gail Lewis, rock veteran and sister of Jerry Lee Lewis, talks about her show tonight at the Dyson House, hosted at Zeeland Street Market in Baton Rouge. 

Conservative columnist and commentator Michelle Malkin comments on immigration in the age of President Trump, who visits Lake Charles tomorrow night. EBR Clerk of Court Doug Welborn on his quest for an eighth term against a vigorous challenge from recent guest Donna Collins Lewis. Advocate Capitol Bureau Chief Mark Ballard looks at the governor’s election two days from the Oct. 12 primary. Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican foes Eddie Rispone and Ralph Abraham debated for a fourth and final time last night in Shreveport.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the slain senator and attorney general and nephew of President John Kennedy, comments on his environmental mission. Kennedy appears in Baton Rouge Thursday as the keynote speaker for the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper. RFK Jr. is joined by Monica Fisher, the outreach coordinator for the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper. Darryl Gissel and Mark Armstrong, Chief Adminstrative and Communications Officers for Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, look at Saturday’s election to approve or stop the formation of the Village of St. George. Skidmore College Professor Robert Boyers reflects on his book “The Tyranny of Virtue.” Boyers says too many campuses are protecting students from uncomfortable ideas.