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KC Currents
Sunday 5-6 pm with a repeat Monday 8-9 pm
News and culture from Kansas City's diverse communities and beyond.


Host: Susan B. Wilson
Producer and Co-Host: Sylvia Maria Gross
Assistant Producer: Alex Smith
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Recent Shows
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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• Hear some local perspectives on politics and the upcoming Olympics in China – from Kansas City sports writer and blogger Anthony Tao, who’s currently visiting family in Beijing.  And Tibetan Buddhist Monk Champa Lhunpo, talks about his work with the Dalai Lama. 

• Kent Gipson, a lawyer who defends death penalty cases with the Public Interest Litigation Clinic, talks about the possibility of a death penalty in the racially-motivated murder of William McCay in the Historic Northeast neighborhood in 2005.

• As economic stimulus checks are printed in the Northland, people in Westport talk about how they plan to spend them.

• The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival performs a condensed version of Shakespeare’s plays for communities throughout the area.

• From New Letters on the Air, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low.

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