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On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, News of Smart World, News of Inspector’s General, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Atom, an original sketch, great music and more.

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Atom, News of Smart World, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Godly, an interview with Amanda Moore about MRGO, great music and more.

Continuum presents early music performed on four different instruments from the medieval and Renaissance periods: the viola da gamba, the Renaissance lute, the organetto, and the recorder.

Today on Louisiana Considered: with gas prices on the rise, we hear from two sides on the oil extraction debate. And, we learn about an upcoming food and beverage competition in New Orleans.

Reginald "Reggio the Hoofer" McLaughlin grew up on Chicago’s south side, where he began his career dancing in the streets and subways. He learned to tap dance using homemade shoes and went on to receive training from prominent dancers Jimmy Payne, Sr. and Ernest "Brownie" Brown. Reggio has taught at the old town school of folk music, where he produces a tap version of The Nutcracker, called The Nut Tapper. He also worked with ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson and the Carolina Chocolate Drops for Keep a Song in Your Soul: the Black Roots of Vaudeville. Here's Reggio.

Today on Louisiana Considered, nearly 60 years after he was arrested and convicted for advocating for integration in his parish, Judge Calvin Johnson finally received a formal apology. And we hear a profile of New Orleans’ incoming Superintendent of Schools, Avis Williams.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we go back in time to learn about Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, which is the latest exhibit at the NOMA. Then, we learn how Le Petit Theatre is celebrating rock & roll queen Janis Joplin.

“Farming,” according to poet Brett Brian, “is a profession of hope.” On this week’s show, we introduce you to sons and daughters of the soil who are living their dreams on the land. We begin in St. Tammany Parish with Monica Bourgeois and Neil Gernon, founders of the small-batch wine company, Vending Machine Wines. The New Orleans couple has been making wine in Napa Valley since 2009, operating the business from their native Louisiana. Their newest venture, WIld Bush Farm & Vineyard finds the two overhauling 13 acres of a former winery in the rural Northshore town of Bush. There, Monica and Neil hope to create a perfect location for winemaking in our state.Then, we visit JD Farms in Poplarville, Mississippi, where Donald Van De Werken and Jeff Brown have been growing the biggest, sweetest, best blueberries in the region. Unsweetened blueberry juice is just one of a myriad of products they've created with their short but delicious annual crop.Finally, we speak with Philip Jones, sixth generation chairman and CEO of Jones Dairy Farm in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The ingredients that make up their signature breakfast sausage are the same today as they were when his forebearer Milo C. Jones founded the company in 1889. It may surprise you to learn that their products have been a favorite on Louisiana breakfast tables for almost a century.

This Continuum program presents excerpts from the early music English vocal ensemble, Gothic Voices.

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Godly, News of the Warm, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, News of Microplastics, plus thoughts about Google’s LaMDA, SpaceX & NASA programs, the January 6th committee, original music and more.