Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore poet Anthony Moll. Their new book, titled, “You Cannot Save Here,” questions how we keep going when the world seems like it’s falling apart. We ask Moll about writing against the backdrop of the pandemic. -
Jabari Lyles shares a Stoop Story about embracing his identity.
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Pickleball's popularity in Baltimore is growing. Are there enough courts to meet demand?
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'Food for Thought' brings the images and voices of Baltimore City Public School food service workers to the forefront.
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We speak with the founder of the Maryland Reentry Resource Center about supporting people who leave jail or prison with a plan to start their own businesses -- re-entering entrepreneurs.
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Documentarian Stanley Nelson on two Maryland icons of freedom, Harriet Tubman and Frederick DouglassAward-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson trains his sights on two Maryland icons of freedom--Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass--to produce films for MPT. We learn about the visions that Tubman saw as Divine navigation … and see Douglass repeatedly reinventing himself.
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Stoop storytelling is a fan favorite, so during our fund drive we’re offering a double scoop of Stoop! One is about an unconventional path to motherhood … and the other is from a newly ordained priest … faced with some shortcomings in her seminary education.
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We’ll go On the Record with musician Stephen Philip Harvey. Even with three teaching gigs, Harvey found time to write a new album, extolling superheroes he’d watched on Saturday morning cartoons. How did he translate brooding heroes and villains into jazz?
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We’ll go On the Record with a neuropsychologist and the mother of a child with autism. How can genetic testing aid treatment of the disorder? How does a large DNA database of people with autism and their families open insight into its complexities?
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What’s being done to address the US nursing shortage? The approach the University of Maryland Medical System is piloting gives students many more hours of hands-on training by instructors who are on-the-job nurses, eager to teach. How is it working?
