St. Louis on the Air creates a unique space where guests and listeners can share ideas and opinions with respect and honesty. Whether exploring issues and challenges confronting our region, discussing the latest innovations in science and technology, taking a closer look at our history or talking with authors, artists and musicians, St. Louis on the Air brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region.
The show is hosted by Sarah Fenske and produced by Alex Heuer, Emily Woodbury, Evie Hemphill and Lara Hamdan. The engineer is Aaron Doerr.
Coming up June 21-25
Monday: the scramble for Roy Blunt’s U.S. Senate seat | a push by GOP lawmakers could affect birth control coverage
Tuesday: one local Harley rider on the spike in motorcyclist fatalities | two women with Moms Demand Action share their stories
Wednesday: musical luminaries from East St. Louis | inside the Purina Family Pet Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Thursday: public transit on demand | Classic 107.3's “Musical Ancestries” series
Friday: your favorite beach reads* | Make Music Day STL shenanigans at Pere Marquette
*Email us your all-time favorite — and why — to talk@stlpr.org.
Schedules are posted each Monday for the week and are subject to change without notice.
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The Missouri Legislature needs to finalize an agreement to accept major Medicaid funding from the federal government, but Republican lawmakers aren’t on the same page. The fight is over birth control. -
On Tuesday, the Missouri History Museum and Opera Theatre of St. Louis presented “I Dream a World: A Celebration of Juneteenth” in commemoration of the day when people who’d been enslaved in Texas belatedly learned of their emancipation.
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A new documentary series, “In Our Voices," tells the stories of LGBTQ locals by giving them control of the interview.
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Year-to-date, fatalities have increased by 40% in 2021 according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. That jump in deaths doesn’t surprise St. Louis resident and Harley rider Justin Adams, given the state's recently relaxed helmet law.
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Rob Mellon, executive director of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County, guides us through SeeQuincy's new self-driving tour that highlights 20 historically significant sites and stories in Quincy, Illinois.
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Belleville News-Democrat reporter DeAsia Paige delves into East St. Louis’ rich musical heritage and discusses her inaugural four-part series for the paper, titled “ESTL Voices.”
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Journalist Chris Andoe's new book, "House of Villadiva," tells delicious stories of LGBTQ community and controversy.
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Fish only seem silent when you’re on the outside looking in. Bruce Carlson’s lab at Washington University has been breaking new ground in our understanding of how they communicate. The fish the biology professor studies use electric pulses — and, as it turns out, pregnant pauses — as they signal their peers.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Benjamin Hochman's new book is about the Cardinals' championship 2011 season. He discussed “11 in ’11: A Hometown Hero, La Russa’s Last Ride in Red and a Miracle World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals" on St. Louis on the Air.
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The eviction crisis advocates fear is on the horizon will likely have a disproportionate impact on communities of color, single female-led households and households with children. That’s according to a new report from the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council, which found that more than 5,000 evictions were filed in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County between March 2020 and January 2021.
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Among the 987 deaths last year, 128 involved pedestrians, some of them struck on roadways after exiting their own vehicles in the wake of incidents.
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Fewer than 20 American red wolves live in the wild throughout the U.S., all in a refuge in North Carolina. Two Missouri-born wolves were flown there last month to join the population, providing a critical source of new genetic diversity.
