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Eastern Standard - Aug. 29th, 2024

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Photo by Moore: from UK Archives - UK Digital Library: 1978 Kentuckian (UK Yearbook), Vol. 82.
Derrick Ramsey running with his usual style, against Tennessee.

Lexington’s Tom Hammond, a legend in network sportscasting, has co-authored a memoir with another legend: Herald-Leader sports writer Mark Story. Hammond and Story sit down with Tom Eblen. Yet another Kentucky sports legend is Gerald Smith’s guest: Derrick Ramsey, the first African American starting quarterback in UK history, who went on to hold leadership roles in Kentucky state government. You’ll hear how Kentucky’s oldest Children’s Theater has emerged from the pandemic. And we sample the music of Xiomara Laggard and Axel Tosca, a Cuban American mother-son duo coming soon to Lexington.

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
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