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Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Singer Allison Russell is a native of Montreal with what she calls “Grenadian Canadian” roots of Afro-Caribbean and Scottish ancestry. You may know her recent recordings with Our Native Daughters and the Birds of Chicago. Or back when with Po’ Girl. Now, in a first solo recording, Outside Child, Russell addresses family abuse in her youth, her ways of coping, followed by escape to the road: Vancouver, San Francisco, Chicago. Those early life experiences led Allison years later to make new, compelling songs, expressing freedom from trauma, to love and hope for better times. She lives now with fellow musician JT Nero and their young daughter in Nashville, but Allison Russell began the journey’s narrative in her beloved Montreal.

Between the levee and the Mississippi River is the batture – a lively slip of wilderness that a tiny community calls home. There's batture land right here in the midst of metropolitan New Orleans – but unless you're lucky enough to know a batture dweller, there's a good chance you weren't aware of one of the city’s most unconventional neighborhoods.That was certainly true of Macon Fry when he arrived in New Orleans in the 1980s. After a chance encounter with a batture resident at a local watering hole, Macon got his first glimpse of life on the river's edge and became so entranced that he built himself a life there. His obsession with the batture ultimately led him to publish his new book, "They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans." Macon joins us in the studio to discuss his decades of research about lives spent there in relative obscurity.

This week’s edition of Le Show centers around an interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the FDA and author of the upcoming book Uncontrolled Spread. We’ll also have regular segments like News of the Olympic Movement, News of Bad Banks, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, original music and more.

Continuum presents Medieval English Music.

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Will hearing aids become a fashion item like eye glasses? It's entirely possible if Dina Zeevi has anything to do with it. Under Kris Khalil's direction, New Orleans BioInnovation Center is a hub of biomedical research.