Special Programs and Reports
Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR), CPTV, PBS, NPR and our local media partners are offering an array of reports on the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, and useful information about how to cope with the many challenges we face together during this historic pandemic.
Governor Lamont's Daily News Briefing On Coronavirus
Governor Lamont's Coronavirus response press briefings will be available each day.
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LISTEN LIVE: Connecticut Public Radio
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SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS PROGRAMMING
On Connecticut Public Radio & TV
On Connecticut Public Radio & TV
MONDAY OCTOBER 26
LISTEN ONLINE: Where We Live - The Future Of Connecticut Prisons: A Conversation With Angel Quiros
LISTEN ONLINE: The Colin McEnroe Show - America In The Middle Of An Election During A Surge In The Pandemic
WATCH ONLINE: Governor Lamont's Coronavirus Response Press Briefing
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28
LISTEN ONLINE: The Wheelhouse - Previewing Election Day 2020
LISTEN ONLINE: The Colin McEnroe Show - What A Horror Show, 2020 Edition
LISTEN ONLINE: Disrupted - 2020 Is A ‘Mental Health Tsunami’
THURSDAY OCTOBER 29
WATCH ONLINE: Governor Lamont's Coronavirus Response Press Briefing
FRIDAY OCTOBER 30
4PM: Governor Lamont's Coronavirus Response Press Briefing
WATCH LIVE: CPTV.org | Facebook | YouTube
LISTEN LIVE: Connecticut Public Radio
Per the nature of live breaking news, exact start and end times will vary.
WATCH LIVE: CPTV.org | Facebook | YouTube
LISTEN LIVE: Connecticut Public Radio
Per the nature of live breaking news, exact start and end times will vary.
6PM: Governor Lamont's Coronavirus Response Press Briefing (re-airing on CPTV)
9PM: The National Conversation with All Things Considered
Connecticut Conversations: Is School Safe?
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MORE CORONAVIRUS PROGRAMMING
SPECIALS
WATCH: Ground Intelligence: Covering COVID with John Moore
WATCH: Connecticut Conversations - Is School Safe?
LISTEN: Seasoned - Feeding People During a Pandemic
LISTEN: First Wave: Three Months Of Coronavirus In Connecticut
WATCH: Connecticut Conversations - Art and Resiliency in the Time of Coronavirus
WATCH: Connecticut Conversations - Coronavirus
LISTEN: Call-In Special - Are New Englanders Becoming More Territorial During The Pandemic?
LISTEN: Call-In Special - How Can New England's Economy Survive Coronavirus?
LISTEN: Call-In Special - Health Care Workers On The Pandemic's Frontlines
LISTEN: The National Conversation with All Things Considered
LISTEN: America, Interrupted (PBS News Hour)
WATCH: Confronting Coronavirus: A PBS NewsHour Special
WHERE WE LIVE
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LISTEN: The Show Must Go On: Pandemic Theater
LISTEN: Hartford Faces Two Health Crises: Pandemic And Gun Violence
LISTEN: Hartford HealthCare's Dr. Ajay Kumar Weighs In On Rising COVID-19 Numbers
LISTEN: Turning Over A New Leaf: Fun Fall Friday
LISTEN: What The Artist Sees: Creating During The Pandemic
LISTEN: As Connecticut Tries To Keep COVID Low, An Unexpected Tool: Poop!
LISTEN: Fall Pandemic Book Club: Connecticut Reads!
LISTEN: Connecticut Parents Continue To Face A Child Care Crisis
LISTEN: What Are The Next Steps In Reopening Connecticut? A Check-in With Governor Lamont
LISTEN: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Pandemic: Understanding The USPS
LISTEN: As COVID-19 Spikes In Danbury, Contact Tracing Is A Vital Tool
LISTEN: 'Back To School' Looks Very Different Across Connecticut
LISTEN: To Go Back To 'Normal', We Need A COVID-19 Vaccine. But When Will That Be?
LISTEN: The New One-Room School: Pandemic Learning Pods
LISTEN: Where Did The Sound Of Music Go?
LISTEN: Congresswoman Jahana Hayes Weighs In On School Reopenings
LISTEN: Giving The New Normal The Old College Try
LISTEN: Members In Connecticut's Largest Teachers Union Want School To Reopen Online Or Follow Hybrid Plan
LISTEN: What, Like It's Hard? Preparing For The Connecticut Bar Exam In A Pandemic
LISTEN: A Conversation With Public Health Commissioner Deidre Gifford
LISTEN: Connecticut Towns Bring Back Resident-Only Beach Policies, But Is That Legal?
LISTEN: Who Is Paying For Coronavirus Testing?
LISTEN: Life After A COVID-19 Diagnosis
LISTEN: July Pandemic Book Club: Summer Reads!
LISTEN: During Pandemic, Stable Housing Is More Critical Than Ever
LISTEN: Big Plans on Campus: CSCU Prepares For The Fall Semester
LISTEN: How The Pandemic Has Magnified Connecticut's Digital Divide
LISTEN: We're Going Back To School...Maybe
LISTEN: Pride Month Goes Virtual
LISTEN: Is Unemployment Necessary As Connecticut And Other States Reopen?
LISTEN: As Connecticut Begins Phase 2 Reopening, Confusion Over Who Should Get COVID 19 Test
LISTEN: The Future Of Work: When Your Home Becomes Your Office
LISTEN: The Future Of Work: Gender Disparities In The Workplace Worsen During The Pandemic
LISTEN: The Future Of Work: What It Means To Be Essential
LISTEN: The Future Of Work: Commuting After The Pandemic
LISTEN: Alone Together Is Still Alone
LISTEN: With COVID-19 Closing Pools, Will Drowning Risks Grow?
LISTEN: Reopening Restaurants And Re-examining The Food Supply Chain
LISTEN: How Statistics Are Helping Us Navigate The COVID-19 Pandemic
LISTEN: A Meaningful (Socially Distant) Memorial Day Weekend
LISTEN: Xenophobia During Pandemic Hits Asian Americans In Connecticut
LISTEN: Reopening Connecticut Brings Looming Childcare Crisis
LISTEN: Preparing For The 2020-2021 Academic Year
LISTEN: Will Connecticut Be Ready On May 20? Governor Lamont Weighs In
LISTEN: Many Questions Remain On Reopening Connecticut And Its Schools
LISTEN: Voting During Coronavirus
LISTEN: From Online Board Games To Animal Crossing: Fun Goes Virtual During COVID-19
LISTEN: The Challenges of Online Learning
LISTEN: How the Pandemic Affects Our Food Supply And Worsens Food Insecurity
LISTEN: Connecticut Innovators Take On COVID-19
LISTEN: When Can We Go Back To Work?
LISTEN: COVID-19 Continues To Hit Connecticut's Nursing Home Population Hard
LISTEN: Taking Care Of The Disabled During Coronavirus
LISTEN: The Science Of COVID-19
LISTEN: Look For The Helpers
LISTEN: Senator Chris Murphy On COVID-19 Response
LISTEN: A Check-In with Governor Lamont & Coronavirus Reaches State Prisons
LISTEN: Worship in the Time of Coronavirus
LISTEN: Mayor Justin Elicker On How New Haven Is Responding to COVID-19
LISTEN: Coronavirus Upends Schooling For Millions of Kids (Call-In Special)
LISTEN: Pandemic Book Club
LISTEN: How Employers Are Responding To Coronavirus
LISTEN: Schools Respond To Coronavirus
LISTEN: Mental Health During the Coronavirus Pandemic
LISTEN: Coronavirus' Toll On Workers
LISTEN: Mayor Justin Elicker On How New Haven Is Responding to COVID-19
LISTEN: Coronavirus Upends Schooling For Millions of Kids (Call-In Special)
LISTEN: Pandemic Book Club
LISTEN: How Employers Are Responding To Coronavirus
LISTEN: Schools Respond To Coronavirus
LISTEN: Mental Health During the Coronavirus Pandemic
LISTEN: Coronavirus' Toll On Workers
THE COLIN McENROE SHOW
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LISTEN: Trump's Ghostwriter; And, A Covid Surge
LISTEN: Republicans And Covid; The White House Covid Tracker
LISTEN: Motels and RV's Are Enjoying A Renaissance With Millennials
LISTEN: The Supreme Court and Covid
LISTEN: The Face Behind The Mask
LISTEN: The Politics Of Police Reform And Covid-19
LISTEN: Hang Tight. It's Almost Next Year.
LISTEN: Two Political Conventions And A Pandemic
LISTEN: Can You Spare A Quarter?
LISTEN: A New Saliva Test; Politics At The Postal Service
LISTEN: The Nose Knows That It's Going To Be Tired Tomorrow, At Least
LISTEN: Covid; And, The Assault On Liberalism
LISTEN: To Bubble Or Not To Bubble: The Sports, They Have Returned
LISTEN: America Loves Its Heroes
LISTEN: Do You Speak Corona?
LISTEN: A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name
LISTEN: Coronavirus Is Still Rising, Biden Is Still Leading, And It's National Moth Week
LISTEN: A Perfect Storm: A Surging Virus and An Election Meltdown
LISTEN: Coronavirus Is Surging; Tax Refunds Will Be Delayed; Fireworks Inspire Conspiracy Theories
LISTEN: Learning How To Breathe
LISTEN: Sports In The Time After (But Kind Of Still During) Corona
LISTEN: The Facts And The Fiction Of Pandemic
LISTEN: The World (Kind Of) Without Us (For A Little While)
LISTEN: Something Different Is Happening. Do You Feel It?
LISTEN: The Convergence Of A Pandemic, Police Brutality And Racism
LISTEN: Between Two Worlds: The Liminal Nature Of Life During Crises
LISTEN: An Hour With An Old Friend
LISTEN: The Virus Is Still Here. The Only Thing That's Changed Is That We're Reopening.
LISTEN: Masks Maketh The Man (Women And Lions Too)
LISTEN: Searching For The Holy Grail Of Covid-19
LISTEN: The Nose Wants To Go To Dreamland
LISTEN: Holy Bats In A Pandemic!
LISTEN: Greenwich Republicans And Trump; This Week In Virology
LISTEN: The Sweatpants Maketh The Man (And Woman)
LISTEN: Pandemic And Moral Relativism; The Rush To A Vaccine; Asian Giant Hornets
LISTEN: The Nose Has The Hands Of A 70 Year Old
LISTEN: Did We Get The Dystopia We Were Promised?
LISTEN: How Do We Make Sense Of President Trump's Behavior?
LISTEN: The Scapegoat Is Not To Blame
LISTEN: Learning To Live In The Shadow Of Coronavirus
LISTEN: The Nose Hosts 'SNL' In Its Pajamas
LISTEN: Supermarket Shopping In The Time Of COVID
LISTEN: On Solitude And Hermits
LISTEN: When Will It Be Safe To Go Back In The Water?
LISTEN: The Nose Bought $100,000 Worth Of Anthony Fauci Bobbleheads
LISTEN: Sex and Coronavirus
LISTEN: America's Leaderless Pandemic
LISTEN: One Person's Boredom Is Another Person's Pleasure
LISTEN: The Importance of Trusting Science
LISTEN: Prioritizing Public Health; Grieving Coronavirus; Blaming "Others"
LISTEN: A Little Bit Of Soap
LISTEN: Restaurants and Coronavirus
LISTEN: The Politics Of A Pandemic
LISTEN: The Scramble On Coronavirus
LISTEN: Sports In The Time Of Coronavirus
LISTEN: The Nose Self-Isolates
THE WHEELHOUSE
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LISTEN: More COVID, More Racist Trolls
LISTEN: Pols Return From Covid, Debates Roll On
LISTEN: CT To Review Vaccines, Halloween Safety
LISTEN: Federal Probes, COVID Inches Back
LISTEN: Sack The Quarterback Or COVID-19?
LISTEN: Pandemic Politics In Connecticut, Presidential Campaign Violence
LISTEN: GOP Convention, Tough Back-to-school Coronavirus Choices
LISTEN: Disputed Decisions On Police, Back To School
LISTEN: A Positive View Of Negative Tests
LISTEN: Seeking Freedom From Brutality, Equality On The Job, And Pandemic Safety
LISTEN: Coronavirus Political Divide, Prominent Justice Retires
LISTEN: Happy Reopening Day!
LISTEN: Prepping For Reopening, Replacing The Public Health Commissioner
LISTEN: Distance Learning Continues In Connecticut
LISTEN: The Challenges Of Reopening Connecticut; Remembering Those We've Lost
LISTEN: What Would A Normal President Do?
LISTEN: Should Coronavirus Change The Way Legislatures Do Business?
LISTEN: Elected Officials And Regular People Grapple With Coronavirus Fears
LISTEN: Open For Business Or Stay Home, Stay Safe?
LISTEN: Coronavirus In Connecticut
US IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
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LISTEN: Protector, Queen, Rascal: Meet Some Of Those We've Lost To Covid-19
LISTEN: Phase One Frenzies; Provocative Predictions; The Bread Boom
LISTEN: Surviving Coronavirus; Guns And Fear; The Backyard Chicken Boom
LISTEN: Dating, Weddings, Howling
LISTEN: Helpers Helping Helpers During Coronavirus
LISTEN: Can Your Relationship Withstand A Pandemic?
LISTEN: Better Ways To Treat Heavy Hearts
LISTEN: Holy Week During Covid-19 - What Does It All Mean?
LISTEN: Feeling Anxious? You're Not Alone.
Connecticut Conversations: Coronavirus
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