Eastern Standard is a weekly radio magazine fueled by curiosity about issues and events that reach into the lives of Kentucky listeners. Based at WEKU on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University, the program focuses primarily on life in central and eastern Kentucky while tracking national and global events and trends that shape life in the region, connecting big-picture developments to local impact.

Senior editor, producer, and host Tom Martin brings decades of small, medium and major market broadcast news experience to the selection of interviews that link national stories with the on-the-ground realities of life in the Commonwealth. "I'm one of those people former Governor Happy Chandler was referring to when he said he had never met a Kentuckian who wasn't on their way home," Martin said. "After gaining news coverage experience in markets ranging from Asheville, N.C., Roanoke, Va. and Spartanburg, S.C., to Pittsburgh, Washington and New York, I returned to Kentucky in 1995, committed to chronicling life and times in the Commonwealth."

Contributor interviewers focus on democracy, artificial intelligence, education, civics, racial justice and equality, Kentucky authors, and theatre production.

Each week, the current full-length program and its individual segments can be streamed and downloaded from esweku.org, where listeners can explore a chronological general archive, as well as the interviews of contributors. 

Thank you for listening and for your support of public radio.