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We sit down with Barbara Peterson, from the Florida Center for Government Accountability to talk about the crucial role of investigative journalism in keeping government accountable, and how exactly to do your own public records request here in Florida.

The new book, “La Florida: Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories” opens with the story that takes place in what’s now Florida in the fall of 1565 when Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés celebrated a ‘feast day of commemoration’ with his men after their successful landing at the future site of the town of St. Augustine. This celebration had many of the same trappings as what we think of when we recount the story of the first Thanksgiving, celebrated 56 years later in the fall of 1621, by Pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation. But, it’s not considered the “first Thanksgiving.” Why is that?

There is a newly formed group called Floridians for Democracy — still in its infancy — that’s being created by southwest Floridians in response to what they say are growing autocratic trends here in Florida, and more broadly across the United States. We spoke with its co-founder and three of its founding members.

We explore some of what’s been happening in the world of space science with Dr. Derek Buzasi. He is an astronomer and the Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Florida Gulf Coast University’s Department of Chemistry and Physics.

Andy Barth spent 35 years as part of the news team at WMAR-TV in Baltimore, beginning as a desk assistant in 1971 and working his way up to being an on air feature reporter, which he spent decades doing before retiring in 2006. Barth produced two feature franchises, one called “Andy At Large” and the other “How Do They Do That?” in which he tried to focus on good news stories. He Mr. Barth recently on the FGCU campus to give a talk called “The Way We Were: The Early Days of TV” so we brought him by the studio while he was on campus to talk about his career, and how the world of TV, and TV news, has changed.

Katherine Lin's new novel is a page-turner that takes place in a luxurious hotel in the South of France.

We explore global trends for democracy and authoritarianism with with Michael Abramowitz, President of Freedom House and the former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and a former national editor and White House correspondent for The Washington Post.

Over the decades, researchers have worked to develop, and improve ways to track incidents of antisemitism — and our guest is among a small group of scholars seeking to better understand the phenomenon through research and controlled experimentation. Dr. Ayal Feinberg is Associate Professor of Political Science & Antisemitism Studies, and Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies & Human Rights at Gratz College in Philadelphia.

We sit down with Barbara Peterson, from the Florida Center for Government Accountability to talk about the crucial role of investigative journalism in keeping government accountable, and how exactly to do your own public records request here in Florida.

This time on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear from Lydia Conklin, author of the short story collection Rainbow Rainbow, which Time magazine named one of the most anticipated books of the year.