KPR Presents

About KPR Presents

Prairie Journal is an opportunity to showcase high-profile, thought-provoking lectures, discussions and dialogues recorded throughout the region. There are so many fascinating people who come to this area, everyone from Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts. Prairie Journal is a great way to share some of those lectures with our listeners. We have also been able to expand the program to cover a broad range of topics, including the Kansas Sesquicentennial, the National Day of Listening and the Kansas Reads program sponsored by the State Library of Kansas, just to name a few.

Publisher

Kaye McIntyre

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Dec 2022

Latest episode

24 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

235 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Social Service League of Lawrence

   In an alley in downtown Lawrence sits a cheery cinderblock building with a big mission.  Meg Davis is the manager of the Social Service League's thrift store, in KPR's Community Spotlight.

2. 

   20 Oct 2026

   The Bender Family: Hell's Half Acre

   More than 100 years ago, a grisly series of murders took place in an isolated cabin in southeast Kansas.  Susan Jonusas is the author of "Hell's Half Acre:  The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family." Our Kansas 250 Bookshelf series continues with "Mad Prairie," a set of unsettling short stories by Kate McIntyre.

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Alex Grecian, Man from the Train

   We're getting in the mood for Halloween with stories of witches, ghosts, demons... and the true story of a father-daughter team searching for a serial killer, 100 years after the fact. Alex Grecian is the author of Red Rabbit and The Saint of Wolves and Butchers; Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James are the authors of The Man from the Train.

Who has been a guest on KPR Presents

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ian Shaw
• Matt Keenan
• Jim Minick
• Sandy Carlson
• Johann Hari

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0