Friday, October 4 – Friday, October 11

Republican Judd Gregg was a United States senator from New Hampshire for 18 years. He’s concerned that the government shutdown and the demands of right-wing hardliners to defund the Affordable Care Act could spell disaster for his party.

Five decades after Michael Harrington’s seminal text on poverty, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States”, author Sasha Abramsky has compiled stories of people all over America who remain locked in poverty. His new book is “The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives”.

Valerie Plame told the story of the leak that ended her CIA career in her 2007 memoir, “Fair Game”. Now she’s turned to fiction with an alter ego character named Vanessa Pierson, the protagonist of her new spy novel, “Blowback”.

George Johnson is here with his 3-minute sports drill.

Gloria Estefan is going old school. Not old school as in her hits of the 1980s. She’s going back much further. Her newest recording is called “The Standards”, and that’s just what it is—a compilation of American and Latin standards going back to the 1930s. It includes such classics as “Embraceable You”, “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”, and “The Way You Look Tonight”.