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On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us regular features like News of Plastics and News of Musk Love before we hear a new edition of Highlights from the Recent Past. Harry gets a call in from Donald Trump, brings us a remembrance of Jack Benny, and has a slew of original songs and sketches including Nixon in Heaven and more.

This week Continuum celebrates the Spring season with early music about springtime and birds, performed by The Folger Consort.

In Lafayette today, our guests are Cedric Watson and Chris Stafford, part of a younger generation that is preserving Cajun and Creole culture by playing the music. Cedric Watson, a fiddler and accordionist who grew up in San Felipe, TX, taught himself the Creole language spoken by some of his elders. Cedric eventually moved to Lafayette where he became involved with several great bands, from the Pine Leaf Boys to his own group, Bijou Creole. Also in Bijou Creole is Chris Stafford, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and researcher, known for co-founding the band Feufollet when he was eleven years old. We’ll soon hear a bit of Chris and Cedric’s duo set live, but first, I asked the two of them about how playing traditional French music as a duo is different than a full band. Cedric Watson:

Louisiana lawmakers gavel into their regular session on Monday. We’ll take a look at their biggest priorities. Plus, the New Orleans Public Library has published a new anthology of work submitted to their adult writing contest.

Professor Annette Gordon Reed chats with Eddie S. Gaude Jr. regarding Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings and the ways in which his contradictory connections with the institution of American slavery has complicated his legacy. Reed is a Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, and her 2009 book The Hemingses of Monticello won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009. This conversation was recorded live on-stage at the 2023 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.

Construction has stopped on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project due to a lawsuit. Plus, what UNO archaeologists are uncovering beneath New Orleans’ famous St. Louis Cathedral.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has promised to streamline its Disaster Assistance Program for claimants. Plus, a new research ship will explore the Gulf of Mexico.

Gov. Jeff Landry recently signed policies that limit the release of the state’s sickest patients. Plus, we’ll hear about the second annual Poetry Without Borders Verse & Music Festival in New Orleans.

On this week's show, we meet inventors and pioneers who have changed the way we eat. We begin with the Bayou State's spiciest new business, Louisiana Pepper Exchange. Founder and CEO Chris White shares the story of the amazing engineering feat he accomplished and how it led to the launch of his company.

Some families in Alabama worry state protections for IVF may not hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling. Plus, abandoned oil and gas wells may pose a threat to Louisiana carbon storage projects.