
Ozarks At Large


Dave Barry is coming to the Fayetteville Public Library next month. We’ll include an interview with him on a future edition of our program, but to kick off spring break week, a small preview of that conversation.
To learn more about Dave Barry’s appearance in Fayetteville: www.faylib.org.
Just a few years ago there was no such thing as a winter season when it came to TV. Now, as Wayne Bell explains, it is an important part of networks’ planning.
Although Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers is a little bitter about those who get a Spring Break, she still has fun entertainment suggestions for them today.
A recent public forum brought city and transportation fellows together to discuss the future of alternative travel in the region.


To close out today's show, we have another traditional Irish song by musicians Carol Widder and Richy McCusker.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with two former Congressmen about the partial federal government shutdown. Plus, plans to develop a Northwest Arkansas Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan are beginning to take shape.
Bill Parry, from the cast of Memphis, talks to us about the musical, life on the road and the changes theater has had in the past couple of decades. Memphis is at Walton Arts Center through the weekend.
"Big Love" performed by Will Mann, from the Memphis soundtrack
The Valley of the Vapors music festival turns Hot Springs into a hotbed of DIY and experimental music each March. There's a new documentary film out about the fest making its Northwest Arkansas debut at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville this Saturday. Ozarks at Large's Katy Henriksen has more.
The Arkansas Legislature considers a ban on the parental rights of convicted rapists, as well as a bill barring school districts from considering home school students as public school students. Plus, University of Arkansas chancellor G. David Gearhart calls for an independent audit of the university's advancement division.
"We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear's Not Scared Mix)" by The Postal Service
In reaction to the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre, Arkansas schools continue to bolster security—from hiring armed guards to installing heavy surveillance. We check districts around the region, talk with school security experts, look at current state legislation, and hear from former U.S. Congressman Asa Hutchinson on the status of his National School Shield Emergency Response Program, commissioned by the National Rifle Association.
We talk to an expert who has studied norovirus for 10 years about the symptoms and conditions to lead to its exposure to humans.