Joe Hanson joins High School Quiz Show, which premieres its 15th season on February 3, as the new host. Hanson is creator and host of PBS Digital Studios’ award-winning Be Smart, which has amassed more than 5 million subscribers across all platforms and more than half a billion views on YouTube. We spoke with Hanson, who was the captain of his junior high academic team. “I feel like my life has come full circle.“

In a major expansion of GBH’s local arts and culture programming, GBH News has launched The Culture Show, a one-hour daily radio program that airs weekdays from 2–3pm on GBH 89.7. Host Jared Bowen took us behind the scenes for a glimpse at the inner workings of the program.

A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film tells the largely unknown story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group that was active across the United States in the 1930s, promulgating virulent antisemitism alongside patriotic values. In 1939, the group drew 20,000 to an “Pro-America Rally” at Madison Square Garden, the same year that Hitler was building his sixth concentration camp. How broad was American support of these beliefs? How did this movement arise?

What happens when people with criminal convictions are released from Massachusetts prisons? Can they start a new chapter in their lives? Their experiences — rarely told and often hidden from public view — are coming to light through GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting’s new project Life After Prison. Hear from the journalists who are tracking their stories.

The new film The Cost of Inheritance weighs in on one of the nation’s most divisive but essential topics — reparations — but doesn’t mention government solutions. Instead, it introduces viewers to descendants of slave owners and enslaved persons and profiles their complicated, intertwined histories and their quests to seek repair together.

Reporter Saraya Wintersmith is always asking questions and seeking new perspectives - and not only on the job. A voracious reader and podcast listener, she follows her curiosity wherever it takes her. She began her career in public media covering Virginia’s General Assembly and now covers Boston City Hall for GBH News. She has reported from Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan, focusing on how people live and the issues that shaped their lives. Wintersmith lives in Dorchester and holds a journalism degree from Howard University.

Offering a respite from kids’ ever-increasing hours of screen time, the “Work It Out Wombats! Podcast” opens the doors for an auditory playdate that adults can enjoy with the preschool children in their lives. Anthony Bostler, GBH Kids producer, told us about the new eight-episode podcast, launching in January, that isn’t just about listening, it’s about having fun — singing, dancing and playing right alongside the delightful characters from GBH’s popular series Work It Out Wombats!.

The new celebrity- and family-filled program 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee is a celebration of Lidia Bastianich’s escape from Communist Yugoslavia to become one of America’s most beloved chefs. It’s also a love letter to public media. Laurie Donnelly, executive producer of GBH Lifestyles and creator of the program, recalls Bastianich’s life and deep connection to GBH.

Listeners to The World, public radio’s longest-running daily global news program, will soon hear a new voice joining host Marco Werman. Starting January 16, longtime reporter Carolyn Beeler will become co-host of the GBH- and PRX-produced show. We spoke with Beeler, who has been a reporter at The World for eight years, about what listeners can expect.

With more than 50 performances and events scheduled over the next year, the Ulysses Quartet, GBH’s first quartet in residence, is connecting with listeners of all backgrounds and ages. Get an insider’s view of the quartet’s first stop at a K-8 school in Boston.