Amy Harris, from BYU's department of history, provides a bracing contrast to the big doings of great men and women, showing how the historical record is just as enriched by typicality and plain patterns.

Dean Duncan is joined by Scott Church, a professor of the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. They discuss the role of media in religion and how media can induce spiritual experiences and convey religious meaning.

This'll Take a While welcomes former university vice-president Jim Kearl to discuss his long involvement in the administration of BYU's Jerusalem Center, as well as some of the ways that this old city, in this tiny country, remains one of the most important places on earth.

Dean is joined by Butler University media scholar Gary Edgerton to review the history of the television medium, up to the complicated present. They consider the possibility that, complications notwithstanding, these may actually be the best of TV times.

Host Dean Duncan is joined by associate professor of the BYU english department, Patrick Madden to speak about the act of writing and idea of the autobiographical sketch. Tune in to hear a conversation about autobiographies and writing that is anything but quotidian!

BYU German professor Rob McFarland presents his own take on the the evolution of one of the most important of all national cinemas.

Host Dean Duncan is joined by assistant proffesor in BYU's department of comparitive arts and letters, Seth Jeppesen to speak about Greek and Roman Mythology. Dean and Seth go into great detail about not only the stories of both Greek and Roman mythology, but the sources of these stories as well.

Our grief and loss are so often leavened by gratitude, and the things we have to celebrate. Joanne Thorn discusses the recent passing of her husband of a half century, as well as the life and love that make up the rest of, the most of that story

Dean welcomes the distinguished film director, producer and educator Sterling Van Wagenen for a rapt, reverent celebration of one of the greatest of all American artists.

American Studies scholar Dr Kerry Soper joins the program to draw out some of the surprising and productive family resemblances that exist between these popular and so-very-present art forms.