On The Record
Weekdays, 9:30 to 10:00 am
Catch On the Record, hosted by Sheilah Kast, weekdays from 9:30 to 10:00 am, following NPR’s Morning Edition. We’ll discuss the issues that affect your life and bring you thoughtful and lively conversations with the people who shape those issues -- business people, public officials, scholars, artists, authors, and journalists who can take us inside the story. If you want to share a comment, question, or an idea for an interview you’d like to hear, email us at ontherecord@wypr.org.
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Produced by Maureen Harvie and Melissa Gerr. Theme music created by Jon Ehrens. Logo designed by Louis Umerlik.
Latest Episodes
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We go On the Record with Mikita Brottman. Her latest book is about a man who killed his abusive parents, and because of mental illness was sent to Maryland’s forensic psychiatric hospital. He insists he’s now well; his doctors say he’s not, and won’t release him. -
Remembering Ted Venetoulis, whose four years in elective office, as Baltimore County Executive in the ‘70s, were just part of decades in public service, policy and business. Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski and writer Michael Olesker share their memories.
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Stoop storyteller Dave Ettlin reminisces about the satisfaction of his day in traffic court.
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We’ll go On the Record with the head of an interfaith nonprofit helping tenants behind in their rent. What happens when a landlord turns down federal eviction-prevention money? Plus, Baltimore launches a fund for a security deposit if moving is a renter’s only option.
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Hear how the Baltimore Museum of Industry illustrates the rise and fall of industry giant Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point. Plus a former employee describes why jobs at the plant were a shot at the American Dream.
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We’ll go On the Record with the head of Baltimore City’s pilot program to collect and compost food scraps. Where do these scraps go? Why is reducing food waste important? Plus, Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective on getting your own start at home.
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Decades of indigenous children being forcibly taken from their families in order to assimilate into white culture and Christianity has created generational trauma found in Native American communities today.
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Josh Kohn tells a Stoop story about his childhood superhero, Shalom Man!
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Can Jupiter Invincible use his super powers and wisdom to rectify racial injustice and inequality ... for all time?
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We’ll go On the Record with a nursing school dean, a student and the head of the Maryland Nurses Association to talk about the causes and consequences of the shortage of nurses. The state needs 10-thousand nurses over the next decade. Can accelerated college training help?
