Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show) is a forward-looking public affairs series, combining original investigative reporting with in-depth interviews with diverse, often grassroots leaders who are driving forward-thinking change in the worlds of arts, business, civic life and social justice. The radio show is 28 minutes exactly in length and is delivered to PRX-Exchange and Pacifica Network’s Audioport on Wednesdays by end of day.

LAURA FLANDERS’ BIO:

Laura is a best-selling author, award winning broadcaster and host of Laura Flanders & Friends on public television. Formerly known as The Laura Flanders Show, the weekly public affairs program airs on over 300 public television stations via PBS and WORLD Channel, and reaches 225 million Americans on public television. It is also available on public radio, major podcast platforms and YouTube. After many years in public and commercial radio, she founded The Laura Flanders Show / GRITtv in 2008 to serve as an online channel for in depth conversations with forward-thinking people from the worlds of politics, economics, business and the arts. A primetime, daily broadcast, GRITtv with Laura Flanders aired for three years on Free Speech TV before moving to KCET/Linktv and teleSUR, as a weekly program. Flanders is a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! magazine. She is also the author of six books including the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura Flanders Show aired nationally on Air America Radio (2004-2008) before which she was the founding host of Your Call, on public radio, KALW, and CounterSpin, the nationally-syndicated radio program from the mediawatch group FAIR.