Public radio listeners will recognize the name B. J. Liederman as the composer of many of the theme songs used on National Public Radio.  WCVE’s Dan Rosenthal spoke with Liederman this week and was told that the musician’s lyrical roots go back to the 60s when his father brought home a copy of the Beatles first album, “Meet the Beatles.”

With American fighter troops now out of Iraq, much of the U.S.government's focus is now on Afghanistan. Prior to the troop pullout, WCVE's Dan Rosenthal spoke with a school counselor from Omaha, Nebraska working at the International School of Kabul. She was in Richmond for an international symposium sponsored by Collegiate School.

Washington Post Reporter Del Quentin Wilber says many facts about the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life 30 years ago never have surfaced. WCVE's Dan Rosenthal talked with Wilber about his book "Rawhide Down" (rawhide was the Secret Service code name for Reagan) and asked what surprised him most about the shooting.

NPR sports commentator Frank Deford has just published his 16th book, a novel called Bliss, Remembered set at the 1936 Olympics.  Many of Deford's followers and fans are unaware that for 17 years, he served as the chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and continues on the Board today as Chairman Emeritus.  Deford's daughter, Alexandra, died of the disease at age 8.