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Episode 32 features musicians Tess Wiley, Andrew Stonehome, and Aroyn Day. Plus, a Dakota Diners visit to Due North GF Bakery in Hatton, North Dakota.

Episode 31 features French singer Marianne Dissard; Piano playing by North Dakota native Matthew Lorenz; and an interview with luthier Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company. Plus, Gabe Witcher of The Punch Brothers talks about their new album, "Hell On Church Street."

10/1/2003: Forty-two years ago on this day, a shy baseball player from Fargo stunned the sports world in one of the most anticipated games ever to be played. Roger Maris hit his 61st home run on October 1st, 1961, breaking the record set by Babe Ruth in 1927 for the most home runs in one season.

10/2/2003: On this day in 1943, German Nazis ordered the arrest and deportation of all Jews in Denmark. Danish government officials, however, had secretly negotiated a deal in which thousands of Jews escaped by sea to Sweden, and the Nazis found only 284 of an estimated 7,000 Jews in Copenhagen.

Actor and historian Joe Wiegand portrays Theodore Roosevelt, performing for guests and tourists in Medora and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. To celebrate National Park Week, April 16-24, Joe talks about the National Park pass system, and his favorite parks to visit.

Musicians Amy Hong and Abbey Rudd play and talk; John Andreasen explains the concert, and Abbey's mother Karin is appreciative. The FM Arts series is funded by The Arts Partnership, with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo.

In this Dakota Diners segment, Tom visits Due North GF Bakery in Hatton, North Dakota — A bakery with a gluten-free menu of pies, cakes, pastries, and more.

7/20/2005: Five prohibition agents raided the ‘largest still west of Chicago’ on this date in 1932. It was on a farm five miles north of Jamestown. Special agents had suspected a still in the Jamestown vicinity since the first of July, when a truckload of corn sugar, the main ingredient of homemade moonshine, was tracked from Valley City to near Jamestown, where they lost the trail. Soon after, agents followed a truckload of piping from Fargo but lost the trail – again near Jamestown.

7/27/2005: William “Bill” Hamann was a mover and shaker in the western North Dakota cattle industry. He was born near Richardton in March 1904 and began working with livestock in the late 1920s. Along with his associates, he established the Western Livestock Company in Dickinson; that was in 1948 – it grew to become the largest cattle auction in North Dakota.

7/28/2005: Leeland Thomas Engelhorn died two years ago on this date. That he died at the age of 80 was a testament to his will to survive; when he was liberated from the Nazis, he weighed 95 pounds.