What's on the radio Friday, Sept. 4

Here’s the MPR News programming plan for Friday, Sept. 4, 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

Labor Day is around the corner, and everything is more expensive, including travel. On the next Friday News Roundup: the latest economic moves by the Trump Administration. Plus: a whistleblower sounds the alarm on mail-in voting plans. ICE says it has enough bodycams for all its people. And goodbye to a giant of feminism, Gloria Steinem. All next time on 1A. (Host: Niala Boodhoo)

10 a.m. — Annual State Fair Weather Quiz

It’s the Annual State Fair Weather Quiz with Mark Seeley and the MPR Weather Team, hosted by Cathy Wurzer. Join us for a chance to test your weather knowledge for the annual state fair weather quiz from iconic Minnesota climatologist Mark Seeley.

11 a.m. — Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

A new coming-of-age novel by Chang-rae Lee examines how we become who we are

If you remember the first time you left your family to go to summer camp, you probably remember how that time marked you. You leave as a child, but after spending a week or two away from home and all that’s familiar, you return changed.

Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, “A Tender Age,” follows a young boy, almost 11, as he begins the shift toward adolescence. A few tumultuous events make Jeon-Gi very aware of his new and growing personhood — and then he leaves for summer camp, where he experiments with different wants to be seen and to act in his suddenly widening world.

Told through the now-adult Jeon-Gi’s memories, the story asks questions who how we become who we are.

“We’re not just formed by the world,” Lee tells Kerri Miller on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas. “There’s part of us that’s ready to be forming on its own. So the world doesn’t only form us, it reveals us. There’s an interplay between those things, that sometimes can go in a direction we didn’t expect.”

Guest:

• Chang-rae Lee is the author of many books, including “Native Speaker,” which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction. His new book is “A Tender Age.” When he’s not writing his own work, Lee teaches writing to students at Stanford University.

Noon — Left, Right & Center

“Left, Right & Center” is KCRW’s weekly politics show where we take on the tough, divisive issues you’re afraid to talk about with your own family. Host David Greene, along with a rotating cast of left and right panelists, reviews the week’s news from Congress, the White House, and Donald Trump’s administration.

1 p.m. – Science Friday

Why so many food recalls?

On the next Science Friday, E. coli and blueberries, glass and popsicles, and of course, Cyclospora. Have there been more food recalls this summer, or does it just feel like it? That’s on Science Friday from WNYC.