This Week in Original Programming (10/07 – 10/11): Author Eula Biss, Dave Hoekstra on the History of Soul Food, and Lois Simpson of the Advocacy Center

What’s new this week on WRBH’s original programming? Check it out!

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Host Lyn Koppel is joined once again by the wonderful Lois Simpson, Executive Director of the New Orleans Advocacy Center. Find out more about Lois and her organization here.

NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Amy Sins sits down with author and food-lover Dave Hoekstra to talk about his latest book, The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences From The Civil Rights Era to Today. Find out more about Dave here.

AUDIO PORTRAITS: Tune in on Thursday at 4PM and Sunday at 1:30PM. Join host Shaun Johnson as he interviews the best and brightest of New Orleans and beyond! 

THE WRITER’S FORUM: Tune in on Thursday at 4:30PM, Saturday at 8:30AM and Sunday at 1PM. David Benedetto speaks to non-fiction author and essayist Eula Biss about the anti-vaccination movement, vampires, motherhood, deep-seeded cultural fears about science and all the other things that can be found in her excellent book, On Immunity: An Innoculation (out via Graywolf press). Learn more about Biss and her work here.

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