What's on the radio: Friday, April 26

Here’s the MPR News programming plan for Friday, April 26, on the radio and on the stream. Missed a live show? Follow the links below to find our show archives and podcast feeds. And for daily news updates straight to your inbox every weekday morning, sign up for the MPR News a.m. newsletter.

9 a.m. — 1A with Jenn White

The News Roundup – Domestic

How will the Supreme Court decide on presidential immunity and a question that’s been left unanswered for many decades? Next time on 1A, the News Roundup will catch you up on all the latest from the Supreme Court. Also, in New York, catch and kill takes center stage in Donald Trump’s criminal trial. And student protests test college administrators and the bounds of free speech. (Friday Host: Todd Zwillich)

10 a.m. — 1A with Jenn White

The News Roundup – International

On the Friday News Roundup this week, President Biden signs off on an aid package that will send billions to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. How might this new deal also put TikTok out of business in the U.S.? And overseas, Hamas releases a new hostage video and Israel says it’s moving ahead with its plan to attack Rafah. That’s coming up on 1A. (Friday Host: Todd Zwillich)

11 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller

Alexandra Fuller on ‘the braid, the spiral, the knot of grief’

 Alexandra Fuller’s new memoir begins with the death of her 21-year-old son, Fi, and chronicles her attempts to grieve well in the searing aftermath of his loss. 

Among other things, that meant acknowledging her kinship with others who had gone before her. 

In her gorgeous new book, “Fi: A Memoir of My Son,” she writes: “The way a pilot sees wind and clouds, or a sailor reads currents and water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that, whatever I’m going through, millions have been here before, are here now, will be here again.” 

She talks about finding solace in that continuity on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas. As she tells host Kerri Miller: “As I was running to my son’s body … I knew that I would be ‘over the grief’ when I was able to find gratitude for the grief. I knew I would find out the quality of my God, for real. And I knew I had joined the vast throng of women who had raised me on the Southern African continent who had been here before.” 

Don’t miss this thoughtful, tender and vulnerable conversation about non-linear grief — grief that is “a braid and a spiral and a knot.” 

Guest:

• Alexandra Fuller is the author of many books, including “Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight,” and "Quiet Until the Thaw.” Her new memoir is “Fi: A Memoir of My Son.”

Noon — Politics Friday with Brian Bakst

Changes are ahead on the Minnesota Supreme Court as one justice steps into retirement 

After nearly 20 years on Minnesota’s Supreme Court, Justice G. Barry Anderson is retiring.   

Anderson is the longest-tenured current justice and the last to have gained his seat through the appointment of a Republican governor. 

Coming up Friday at noon, MPR News host Brian Bakst talks with Anderson about his time in the Minnesota Supreme Court, his career in the courtroom and his view on political pressures on the judiciary. 

Later, a look at how the nation’s finances will factor into the 2024 election campaign with MPR News senior economics contributor Chris Farrell. 

We’ll also hear some sounds and voices from the Capitol this week, and some insight from members of our MPR News politics team. 

Guests:  

• Justice G. Barry Anderson is a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court. His term will end on May 10.  

• Chris Farrell is senior economics contributor at Marketplace, American Public Media’s nationally syndicated public radio business and economic programs. He’s also senior economics contributor at Minnesota Public Radio.

• Ethan Struby is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton College.  

• Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Washington D.C.

1 p.m. – Science Friday

Neuro rights

You can now purchase a cap or headband that monitors your brain waves. But what happens to your brain data? A look into the privacy concerns with wearable neurotech.