Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, July 30
Get Evan Smith’s introduction on the Cronkite page of Texas Monthly Talks’ Web site

An encore of a 2006 episode featuring the legendary newsman repeats Thursday on KLRU or watch it now.

Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, June 11
Also airs: Sunday, June 14, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

Legal Journalist Jeffrey Toobin from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Sometimes you plan, and sometimes you get lucky. When we asked Jeffrey Toobin, the lawyer turned New Yorker writer and CNN senior legal analyst, to be a guest on this show, we had no idea that his time with us, during a long-planned trip to Austin, would coincide precisely with what can only be regarded as seismic news in his world: President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court. more →

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Also airs: Sunday, June 7, at 12:30 p.m.
Watch episodes online at klru.org/texasmonthlytalks or klru.tv

Austin writer Bud Shrake passed away earlier this year. Shrake taped an episode of Texas Monthly Talks in January 2008 during which time host Evan Smith said “If the assemblage of undeniably talented outlaws, renegades, malcontents, and misfits who emerged from the iron triangle of Paschal High School, Texas Christian University, and the Metroplex newspaper business amounts to a Fort Worth mafia, this week’s guest is surely the don: the most talented outlaw, renegade, malcontent, and misfit of the bunch — the one with the longest life in the world of writing at various levels and in various media, and the one whose work, more than that of any other, continues to surprise and delight.” Read more of Smith’s comments on Shrake here or watch the complete interview:

Writer Bud Shrake | Texas Monthly Talks from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 28
Also airs: Sunday, May 31, at 12:30 p.m.
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Basketball Coach Jody Conradt from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Even if you follow college basketball only occasionally, but especially if you’re an obsessive, as so many of us in Texas seem to be, she will always be “Coach” — never mind that she no longer sets foot on the court each day or each week, inspires her own team of young talents to prevail at their chosen sports, or guides a single student-athlete down the path to graduation. Jody Conradt did those things and more for plenty long enough, enthusiastically and expertly, making history along the way. more →

Program: Texas Monthly Talks
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, May 21
Also airs: Sunday, May 24, at 12:30 p.m.
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Musician Sonny Rollins from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

As much he dislikes the word – as much as he thinks it makes him sound like a has-been, or a no-longer-is – Sonny Rollins is unquestionably a legend; no other word can possibly do justice to the self-described saxophone colossus and his truly remarkable career, which spans seven decades and includes a virtual who’s-who of jazz as supporting players. Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Theolonius Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Don Cherry, Art Blakey, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones: There is literally no one consequential last century or this that Rollins did not work with, record with, blow his horn for or alongside. more →