Conner Calling Schedule

Friday, July 11-Mary Anna Evans, author of the new book Findings, is Hank’s guest.

Friday, July 18- Hank’s guest is Mike Farrell, B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular TV series M*A*S*H. Mike discusses his autobiography Just Call Me Mike.

Friday, July 25- Hanks talks with Martin Uman, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida and renowned expert on lightning, about his book The Art and Science of Lightning Protection .

Friday, August 1- Kevin McCarthy discusses American English usage with Hank.

Friday, August 8- William McKeen, Chairman of the Journalism Department at the University of Florida, talks about his new biography of the late Hunter Thompson, Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson.

Friday, August 29- Hank chats with Maggie Taylor, digital image artist, and Norman Holland, Eminent Scholar in the UF Department of English, about her images for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Previous Shows

Friday, June 18, 2004- Best selling author Michael Connelly talked about his book The Narrows, another in the Harry Bosch series.

Friday, June 25, 2004- Alan Elsner, author of Gates of Injustice:The Crisis in America’s Prisons, was Hank’s guest.

Friday, July 2, 2004- Hank's guest was Ben Wilcox, Executive Director of Common Cause Florida.

Friday, July 9, 2004- Phillip Weiss, author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps ,discusseed his controversial new book with Hank Conner.

Friday, July 16, 2004- Mary Roach chatted about her new book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

Friday, August 6, 2004- Professor Martin Uman of the University of Florida discussed lightning and his book, which he co-authored with Dr. Vlad Rakov, Lightning: Physics and Effects.

Friday, August 13, 2004- Hank talked to cyberspace guru Robert X. Cringely.

Friday, August 20, 2004- Hank’s guest was Garrison Keillor who discussed his new book, Home Grown Democrat.

Friday, Aug.27, 2004- Two of North Central Florida's most influential people Ron Cunningham and Jake Fuller of the Gainesville Sun were Hank's guests. 

Friday, Sept.3, 2004- No show. Instead a Labor Day special.

Friday, Sept.10, 2004- Conner Calling was not heard because of the special coverage of the inauguration of Dr. Bernie Machen as the new president of the University of Florida.

Friday, Sept.17, 2004- Hank interviewed Dr. Will Swift on his new book The Roosevelts and the Royals.

Friday, Oct. 15, 2004- Hank talked with Linda Fasulo, United Nations correspondent for NBC News, about her book An Insiders Guide to the U.N.

Friday, Oct. 22, 2004- Hank's guest was Douglas C. Waller, author of A Question of Loyalty: General Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation

Friday, Oct. 29, 2004- William Scott Wilson discussed his book The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

Friday, Nov.5, 2004- Bob Kealing, author of Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends

Friday, Nov.12, 2004- Florida Senator Bob Graham joined Hank for a discussion of his new book Intelligence Matters.

Friday, Nov. 19, 2004- Warren St.John talked about his new book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey Into Fan Mania.

Friday, Nov. 26, 2004- Hank off while a post-Thanksgiving special aired.

Friday, Dec.3, 2004- Hank chatted with University of Florida Journalism Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer John Kaplan about his latest book Photo Portfolio Success.

Friday, Dec.10, 2004- Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer was discussed with its author, photographer John Moran.

Friday, Dec.17, 2004- Dr. Kenneth R. Bzoch discussed his new book How Babies Learn To Talk: A Book For New Parents And Grandparents.

Friday, January 21, 2005- Steven Graubard discusses his book Command of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theadore Roosevelt to George W. Bush .

Friday, Jan.28, 2005- Hank’s guest is Peter Sander co-author of Cities Ranked & Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the US & Canada.

Friday, Feb.4, 2005- Professor Kevin McCarthy discusses American English usage with Hank.

Friday, Feb.11, 2005- Hank welcomes back Gainesville’s own Romance writer Darlene Marshall to discuss her new book Smuggler’s Bride.

Friday, Feb.18, 2005- Sharan Newman discussed her book The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code.

Friday, Feb.25, 2005- UF Distinguished Service Professor of Pharmacy Paul Doering discussed drugs: prescription and non-prescription.

Friday, March 4, 2005- University of Florida Professor of English Richard Brantley discussed his book Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson.

Friday, March 11, 2005 - Hank and Kevin McCarthy chatted with Frank Delaney about his epic novel Ireland.

Friday. March 18, 2005 - Hank and Michael Radelet, Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, discussed the death penalty and Sister Helen Prejean’s book The Death of Innocents.

Friday, March 25, 2005- Rinker Buck chatted with Hank about his brand new book Shane Comes Home.

Friday, April 1, 2005 - Hank discussed jazz with John Edward Hasse curator of American Music at the Smithsonian and author of Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington .

Friday, April 8, 2005- Jim Rasenberger discussed his book High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline.

Friday, April 15, 2005- Professor Kevin McCarthy discussed American english usage with Hank.

Friday, April 22, 2005- Charles Wilkinson discusses his new book Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

Friday, April 29, 2005- Janis Owens discussed her book The Schooling of Claybird Catts.

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Friday, May 6, 2005- New York Detective Edward Conlon discusses his book Blue Blood.

Friday, May 13, 2005- Michael Connelly discusses his latest book The Closers .

Friday, May 20, 2005- James Reston, Jr. discusses his book Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade .

Friday, May 27, 2005 through Friday, June 17- Hank will be on vacation. Special programming will come your way these four Fridays. Check it out here!

Friday, July 15, 2005- Kevin McCarthy joined Hank as they discussed American English usage.

Friday, July 22, 2005- Mary Kilgour was Hank’s guest as she discussed her book Me May Mary.

Friday, July 29, 2005- Hank discussed Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, And The Road To The Battle Of New Orleans with its author Benton Rain Patterson.

Friday, August 5, 2005- Tom Meek, writer of the Gainesville Sun column “Another Day in Cyberville”, talked with Hank about information technology.

Friday, August 12, 2005- Gainesville book seller Tom Ryder discussed books with Hank.

Friday, August 19, 2005- Hanks guest was Roby Page, author of Bike Week At Daytona Beach: Bad Boys And Fancy Toys.

Friday, August 26, 2005- Mary Anna Evans chatted with Hank about her new book Relics.

Friday, Sept.2, 2005- Hank’s gust was Gary Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams.

Friday, Sept.9, 2005- Hank discussed American English usage with UF Professor of English Kevin McCarthy.

Friday, Sept.16, 2005- ESPN.com business reporter Darren Rovell, author of First in Thirst, was Hank’s guest.

Friday, Sept. 23, 2005- Monty Roberts, the original horse whisperer, discussed his latest book The Horses in My Life

Friday, Sept.30, 2005- Best selling author Michael Connelly discussed his latest book a, legal thriller, called The Lincoln Lawyer.

Friday, Oct.7, 2005 - Noah Pickus discussed his new book True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism.

Friday, Oct.14, 2005- Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Jane Roberts discussed her new book with Hank.

Friday, Oct.21, 2005- Wayne Greenhaw talked about his book The Thunder of AngelsThe Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow.

Friday, Oct.28, 2005- University of Florida Professor of English Kevin McCarthy chatted with Hank about American English usage.

Friday, Nov.4, 2005- Bruce Feiler discussed his latest book Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion.

Friday, Nov.11, 2005- Hank discussed Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate with its author Wlliam Ruddiman.

Friday, Nov.18, 2005- Bruce Chilton, author of Mary Magdelene: A Biography was Hank’s guest.

Friday, Nov.25, 2005- Time magazine movie critic Richard Schickel chatted with Hank about his new book Elia Kazan: A Biography.

Friday, Dec. 2, 2005- Mary Anna Evans and Shelley Fraser Mickle, contributors to the short story anthology A Kudzu Christmas, were Hank’s guests.

Friday, Dec.9, 2005- Renowned photographer and image maker Jerry Uelsmann, author of Other Realities and digital photography artist Maggie Taylor, whose work is the subject of a new book entitled Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, were Hank’s guests.

Friday, Dec.16, 2005- Albert Jack, author of Red Herrings and White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Everyday, was Hank’s guest.

Friday, Dec.30, 2005- James Shapiro, author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, is Hank’s guest.

Friday, Jan.6, 2006- Simon Singh, author of Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe, was Hank’s guest

Friday, Jan. 27, 2006- Michael Radelet, Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, discussed the death penalty with Hank.

Friday, Feb.3, 2006- David Leavitt, Professor of English at the University of Florida, discussed his new biography of Alan Turing The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Friday, Feb. 10, 2006- James L. Swanson, the author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, was Hank’s guest.

Friday, Feb.17, 2006- John Kelly discussed his book The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the most Devastating Plague of All Time.

Friday, Feb.24, 2006- Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Florida Kevin McCarthy discussed American English usage with Hank.

Friday, March 3, 2006- Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods : Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, talked with Hank.

Friday, March 10, 2006- Gainesville Sun political cartoonist Jake Fuller chatted with Hank.

Friday, March 17, 2006- Marilyn Johnson talked with Hank about her new book The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries.

Friday, March 24, 2006- Hank chatted with Bill Belleville, author of Losing it All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape.

Friday, April 14, 2006- Ron Cunningham, editorial writer for The Gainesville Sun, was Hank’s guest.

Friday, April 21, 2006- Hank’s guest was Richard Croker, author of No Greator Courage: A Novel of the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Friday, April 28, 2006- Hank chatted with Lisa Phillips, author of Public Radio: Behind the Voices .

Friday, May 5, 2006- Bernard A. Weisberger discussed his book, When Chicago Ruled Baseball : The Cubs- White Sox World Series of 1906, with Hank and Henri Pensis.

Friday, May 12, 2006- Hank chatted with Michael R. Gordon about his book COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.

Friday, May 19, 2006- Hank chatted with the authors of The Florida Manatee, Biology and Conservation , Roger L. Reep and Robert K. Bonde.

Friday, May 26, 2006- Hank talked with Sol Hirsch, Director of Alachua County Libraries, about the future of books.

Friday, June 2, 2006- Kevin McCarthy, emeritus Professor of English, UF, chatted with Hank about American English usage.

Friday, June 9, 2006- Gainesville’s own Darlene Marshall joined Hank for a discussion of her latest book Captain Sinister’s Lady.

Friday, June 16, 2006- Bill Henderson discussed his book Simple Gifts: Great Hymns, one Man’s Search for Grace.

Friday, June 23, 2006- Gainesville book seller Tom Rider discussed summer reading with Hank.

Friday, June 30- Hank discussed Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life with New York food critic and author Mimi Sheraton.

Friday, July 7- Rex Rowan and Mike Manetz discussed their book A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Alachua County, Florida with Hank.

Friday, July 14- Gainesville author Jim Twitchell discussed his new book Where Men Hide.