Focus

Focus, or Focus 580, was WILL Radio's flagship talk program from 1981 until 2014. David Inge was the host from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. Always engaging, the program acted as a resource for citizens to directly question politicians and candidates as well as keep up on the arts, science, health, and even the latest from well-known novelists.

The Focus archive below offers thousands of great interviews and serves as a time capsule and a great resource for researchers and those just curious about how influential people spoke of important topics as they were happening.

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Guest: Simon Winchester.

On April 18, 1906, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake rocked San Francisco and left the city in ruins within a minute. Today on Focus, geologist and author Simon Winchester joins the show to talk about the event's impact on human history and how recent scientific advances have revealed the ancient subterranean processes that fueled it—and almost certainly will cause history to repeat itself.

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