Podcast: In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson

On the Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal, discusses the Defense Authorization Act recently passed by congress. And the Wildcard has a bank robber with a four-footed accomplice!

In Focus brings you a preview from director Tom Salter of a new Wetumpka Depot Theater play about Truman Capote and Harper Lee and their trip to Kansas to interview the killers portrayed in the book, “In Cold Blood.”

The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery is having a birthday party Saturday celebrating artist and novelist Zelda Fitzgerald, and In Focus has a preview. 

Today’s In Focus brings you a visit with Sam Wooten, artistic director of Montgomery’s Cloverdale Playhouse, about a fun play for the entire family!

On today’s Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal, reports that students are making big gains in educational achievement. And the Wildcard is seared all over the floor!

With the increase in cases of the cyclospora parasite causing intestinal illness, the director of food safety for the Alabama Department of Agriculture and industries visits In Focus today with advice on how to avoid it!

Today’s In Focus brings you part two of our conversation with two Florida archaeologists about a cat that a Spanish galleon brought to the Florida Gulf Coast in 1559.

There is more to the story of America than its 250th birthday. On today’s In Focus, two Florida archaeologists bring you the story of Luna the Cat, brought to the New World aboard a Spanish galleon in 1559.

On the Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal, discusses the court ruling on gubernatorial candidate Tommy Tuberville’s residential status. And the Wildcard is about a cat that steals the show!

If you are plagued by mosquitoes and other flying insects this summer, attracting birds can help reduce them. Dr. Shirley Farrell, president of the Alabama Ornithological Society, joins us for an In Focus re-visit from spring.