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Katerina Stoykova interviews writer James B. Wells about his investigative memoir Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew.

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and we're rolling out this new episode with Julie Cerel, Ph.D., professor in the College of Social Work (CoSW) at the University of Kentucky, who recently was honored with the Norman Farberow Award for Bereavement and Lived Experience by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). The award recognizes her transformative research, which expands understanding of the impact of suicide on families, friends and entire communities.

Saving Stories returns with a fresh episode on the integration of baseball. Not the Jackie Robinson story but another event that happened right here in Lexington. Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from an oral history interview with Lexington native Bobby Flynn, who in 1947 helped the Lexington Hustlers become the first integrated baseball team in the South. Flynn was white but had been rejected by the white teams because he was small. In the interview Bobby Flynn tells the story of being asked by manager John 'Scoop' Brown to join the Negro League team, and the reaction from members of the local white community.

250Lex kicks off a month celebrating the rich heritage of sacred music. On September 21, all churches, synagogues, chapels, sanctuaries, houses of prayer and places of peace are invited to include a special musical piece in their liturgies. Doctor Everett McCorvey, director of the UK's opera theater program and founder and music director of the African spiritual ensemble, says this project has been near and dear to his heart and has been decades in the making. He talks all about it with host, Tom Musgrave.

This week Joe and Josh talk about the main course with enticing entrées. From brats to roasts to vegan options, The Farmers' Market has the ingredients to make your dinner, event or tailgate a hit.

Welcome, come listen if you dare to our newest podcast creation - it's alive, alive! Lexington Stories Lore and More debuts with a suitably creepy episode just in time for Halloween. Fiona Young-Brown, author of Secret Lexington, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, tells us about several creepy, haunted and sometimes frightful stories associated with Lexington. So grab a security blanket, your candy corn and your imagination.

Katerina Stoykova interviews poet Chuck Stringer about his chapbook, By Fowlers Fork.

October's 250Lex theme explores Lexington's history as the "Horse Capital of the World." We talk with Hallie Hardy, executive director of Visit Horse Country, which is celebrating its own 10 year anniversary with numerous equine-related events happening all this month. We also run down some exciting new things happening at the Lexington History Museum.

Last month new federal guidance from Health and Human Services Cabinet Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. regarding acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, sent shockwaves throughout the medical community. Dr. Greg speaks one-on-one with Kentucky Cabinet for Health Family Services Secretary Dr. Steven Stack about what patients, particularly pregnant women, should do in the wake of the new recommendations.

Lexington Stories, Lore and More is back for December. In this episode Alan and Fiona Young Brown, author of Secret Lexington, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, examine the many ways Lexingtonians have gotten around over the past 250 plus years. Plenty of Planes, Trains and Automobiles in the conversation, not to mention one long-running ferry still in operation (most days) and we'll take you back to the heyday of the horse and buggy.