The Point

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week. His guests include: Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times, Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette, Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle, Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner, Barry Stringfellow of the Martha's Vineyard Times, and Andy Tomolonis of South Coast Today.

On The Point , a conversation with Hedwig Rose , who survived the holocaust hiding in an Amsterdam cellar. Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before 1940, only 30,000 survived the war. Hedwig “Hedy” Rose was one of those survivors who, at age 5, hid in a cellar with her mother and older sister. Mindy Todd hosts.

Our monthly books program on The Point is dedicated to "Trees and Forests." From history to poetry, we explore the many ways these organisms have figured in literature and in life. Our guests in the studio are Jill Erickson, Reference Librarian at Falmouth Public Library , and Dennis Minsky, Naturalist on the Dolphin Whale Watch and member of the Provincetown Tree Advisory Group. Mindy Todd hosts. Click here for a list of books we talked about.

A growing body of evidence shows links between childhood adversity and illness, both physical and psychological. Research also shows adults who experienced toxic stress as children are at greater risk for chronic disease. Mindy Todd speaks with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician and the founder and CEO of the Center for Wellness . She’s pioneering efforts to determine how toxic stress impacts children and how to identify and treat children before lasting damage is done .

WCAI's Brian Morris hosts the Weekly News Roundup. His guests include Gwenn Friss from the Cape Cod Times; Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner; Andy Tomolonis of the New Bedford Standard-Times; and George Brennan of the Martha's Vineyard Times.

Many people enjoy collecting items or keeping things that have sentimental meaning. But taken to the extreme, collecting can impact physical and emotional well being. We hear the story of a woman whose own hoarding tendencies prompted her to found Clutter’s Anonymous on the Cape, and we talk with members of the Cape Cod Hoarding Task Force about the identifying and supporting those with hoarding tendencies.

What are some of the reasons athletes use drugs? How is doping different from other technological advances we see being adopted in sport? What impact does doping have on young athletes? On The Point, Thomas Murray joins us to discuss these and related topics. His new book is titled Good Sport: Why our Games Matter and How Doping Undermines Them . A lso see the U.S. Anti Doping Agency website. Mr. Murray is giving a book talk at Titcomb's books in Sandwich on Sunday .

On The Point, Director of Editorial Mindy Todd and News Director Steve Junker check in with our listening audience, to get feedback about WCAI's programming. We hear praise and complaints, along with requests and suggestions about the schedule and content of our broadcasts.

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week. His guests include: Geoff Spillane of the Cape Cod Times, Sara Brown of the Vineyard Gazette, Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle, Ed Miller of the Provincetown Banner, and Barry Stringfellow of the Martha's Vineyard Times.

On The Point, actor Ed Asner and playwright Jeff Cohen join Mindy Todd in a discussion about The Soap Myth . The production questions who has the right to write history: those people who have lived it and remember, those who study and protect it, or those who would seek to distort its very existence. What is our responsibility once we know the truth? A staged reading of the work will be at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford on Saturday January 27 at 7:00 p.m.