Midday

Temple Grandin, an inventor, speaker, and author, is one of the most well-known people living with Autism in the world. She’ll be joining us to share her life story, as well as the latest research on the disorder. Grandin is the author of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.

A look at the affect the year 1913 had on American history with a panel of guests including Marin Alsop of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Charles Emmerson, author of 1913: The World Before the Great War.

The remarkable life of Baltimore-raised entertainer Cab Calloway, with his daughter Camay Calloway Murphy, founder of the Cab Calloway Jazz Institute and Museum at Coppin State University; her son, Christopher Calloway Brooks, director of the Cab Calloway Orchestra; and Alyn Shipton, author of, Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway.  Guest host Korva Coleman

In the first of a two-part series on immigration, former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook’s political podcast, Decode DC, explores this serious and volatile subject and looks at how humor can get closer to solving a problem than political talking points ever could. Guest host Korva Coleman

What happens when two people point fingers at each other and claim to be victims of a crime the police have not witnessed? This question was examined in one of Dan’s recent columns in The Baltimore Sun, prompting a follow-up conversation today about such common disputes, the limitations of police authority, the role of the Maryland District Court commissioners, and the challenges of resolving such cross-complaints. With Baltimore attorney Jim Astrachan and Gale E. Rasin, longtime Baltimore judge, retired.

During the Civil War, more than 200,000 black men enlisted in the Union Army or Navy. African American Faces of the Civil War explores the war through the images of men of color. The book’s author, Ronald S. Coddington, is our guest. He writes “Faces of War,” a column for the Civil War News and contributes to The New York Times online. Watch for images from the book on the Dan Rodricks Facebook page in the days leading up to the show.

With the upcoming release of “The Great Gatsby,” our film critics, Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed,  look at remakes and sequels over the years. 

A look at the top stories of the region with the reporters who covered them.This hour, we talk about the expansion of the Port of Baltimore with Christopher Lee, chairman of Ports America; we'll look at the latest in the Anne Arundel County storm water fee dispute with Rona Kobell of the Chesapeake Bay Journal; more on the Black Guerrilla Family scandal with Patrick Moran, president of AFSCME Maryland Council; and then we'll discuss the Civil Rights exhibit at the Reginald Lewis Museum with Betsy Cunningham<

In a new memoir, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams writes that ordinary people are capable of achieving extraordinary things. She joins us to share how she went from a small-town girl with working-class roots to an internationally recognized human rights advocate known for her work banning landmines. Her book is, My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Price Prize.

Preservation Maryland, dedicated to preserving the state’s historic buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes and archaeological sites, has released its annual “Endangered Maryland” list, a compilation of the state’s threatened historic properties. Our guest: Tyler Gearhart, executive director of Preservation Maryland.