Southeast Missouri State University

Featured Programs

Documentary Specials
Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m.

Sunday, May 1: Radio Lab - The Good Show
repeat Wednesday, May 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Here's a disturbing question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to a battle for survival, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? Radiolab looks at the cold calculations of kin selection, talks to heroes who risked their lives for strangers, and looks to game theory -- where doing good can actually be a good strategy.



Sunday, May 8: Radio Lab - Lost and Found
repeat Wednesday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m.

Radiolab asks how we find our way in the world. Meet a woman whose cognitive map leaves her lost no matter where she is, and look to pigeons for amazing feats of navigational wizardry. Plus: a love story about being lost...then found...in a very different sense.



Sunday, May 15: Radio Lab - Help!
repeat Wednesday, May 18 at 7:00 p.m.

What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you? Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those forces inside us--from unhealthy urges, to creative insights--that seem to have a mind of their own. We meet a Cold War negotiator who, in order to quit smoking, backs himself into a tactical corner, and we visit a clinic in Russia where patients turn to a radical treatment to help fight their demons. Plus, Elizabeth Gilbert on doing battle with your muses.



Sunday, May 22: Radio Lab - The Soul Patch
repeat Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m.

In this episode, stories of unlikely (and surprisingly simple) answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. We get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check. Then, Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close, who are both face-blind, share workarounds that help them figure out who they’re talking to. And a senior center stumbles upon an unexpected way to help Alzheimer’s patients—by building a bus stop.



Sunday, May 29: Radio Lab - Desperately Seeking Symmetry
repeat Wednesday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m.

On the next Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence - from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece , head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.



Sunday, June 5: The Promised Land - Kyshun Webster: “Reaching for Greatness”
Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of Operation Reach, an extensive family of programs for kids throughout the Gulf South, Kyshun has been working to improve his community since he was a kid himself. Majora joins Kyshun as he returns to his childhood roots to explain the inspiration for his 20 years of inspiring youth to greatness.


Sunday, June 12: The Promised Land - Nat Turner: “Planting Seeds for a Lifetime”
For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward into an urban Eden. Blair Grocery is now both a nontraditional school and an urban farm run by youth who've dropped out of mainstream education. Majora spends two days observing the teaching and training that makes the Blair Grocery Project a true innovation.


Sunday, June 19: The Promised Land - Wilma Subra: ”Chemistry of the Aftermath”
Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana's powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, her phone hasn't stopped ringing. At first, the calls were from people who knew men on the rig; later, from coastal residents complaining of nausea and breathing problems. Majora Carter spends a day with Subra as she takes water and sediment samples and meets with community members whose concerns are now the focus of her investigation.


Sunday, June 26: The Promised Land: “Reimagining  A Way of Life”
New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese Americans were connected to the fishing industry, and the BP oil spill hit the community hard. Vietnamese fisherfolk are trying to rebuild their lives - opening sustainable farms, gas stations, nail salons, and aquaponic projects - while also dealing with the mental anguish that surfaces when a lifetime on the water suddenly disappears.


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