Boise State Public Radio

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Boise State Public Radio: • Produces and broadcasts quality educational, informational, and cultural programming that entertains as well as informs; • Develops and implements cost-effective distance learning technologies; • Provides opportunities for students to work in a professional broadcast environment.

Series

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171 Pieces

Reader’s Corner with Bob Kustra features lively interviews with today’s leading writers about ideas and issues that matter today. Join us each week for thoughtful interviews centered around books on a broad range of topics, from world politics and scientific discovery to the best in literary fiction.


Latest Pieces

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Host Bob Kustra talks with New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer about the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:05
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Alden about his book about how America got left behind in the global economy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews New York Times columnist David Brooks about his bestselling book.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:29
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Charles Fountain, author of "The Betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball."

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Greg Mitchell, author of "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films that the JFK White House Tri...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Noah Isenberg, author of “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.”

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marc Levinson,, author of “An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy.”

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Aaron David Miller, author of "The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President."

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Mary Ellen Hannibal about the tremendous impact of citizen scientists.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:30