“Pain at the pump” is a nationwide affliction. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares, and Director, Actor and Educator Kristen van Ginhoven.

“We Got the Beat – A Women in Music Summit” will bring together creatives and music lovers for three days of concerts, panels, screenings, and conversation at Woodstock, New York’s historic Bearsville Theater, March 25-27th. The event is an immersive weekend covering every aspect of the contributions made by women to the world of music. We’ll talk with producers Lizzie Vann – owner of the Bearsville Theatre - and music journalist Holly George-Warren to get a preview.

Hrishikesh Hirway is an acclaimed musician and host/creator of the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series. His first EP under his own name, “Rooms I Used to Call My Own,” is due March 30.The album features collaborations with a long list of acclaimed artists, songwriters and producers including Yo-Yo Ma, Jay Som, Baths, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jimmy Tamborello, Jonathan Snipes, John Mark Nelson and Grammy-winners John Congleton and Kimbra.Hirway is marking the release of the EP with a co-headlining tour with Jenny Owen Youngs that started in Austin at South by Southwest this on Tuesday (when we recorded this interview) and will bring them to Orpheum Theatre in Saugerties, New York on Sunday, March 20.

The situation in Ukraine is dire. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, Counter-Terrorism Expert & Bestselling Author Malcolm Nance, Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and Investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

It has been a nearly two-year delay of performances due to the pandemic, the curtain will finally go up on Performing Arts of Woodstock’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly Last Summer” with a preview on Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. The production then opens a three-week run at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center on March 18, at 7:30 PM. To tell us more we welcome Director Ellen Honig, and actors Gabriela Bonomo and Lora Lee Ecobelli.

In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March -- while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan. Thirty years later, Eleanor finally had the letters translated. The particulars of those letters sent her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past.

Author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North will tell us about his new book: "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" offers a step-by-step guide for aspiring comic-book style supervillains. As a writer for Marvel and DC Comics, Ryan North was tasked with inventing new and increasingly ambitious world-domination schemes each and every month. Ryan also wanted his schemes to be plausible, so he drew on his background in science (physics, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, computer programming, etc.) to figure out how to make them really work. The book shares his nine audacious, inadvisable, possibly affordable world-domination schemes, all inspired by comics and pulp fiction, and all backed up by real-life science and technology.

A move to shutter a Pioneer Valley health center is not going over well locally. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.