Wednesday Morning National Politics; Oscar Docs: Strong Island; Would Australia's Gun Laws Work in the US?; Diplomacy Under Trump; Movie Music Trivia!  

Coming up on today's show:

• Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news.
• Yance Ford, director of "Strong Island," an Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary, tells the story of his brother's murder, how it continues to reverberate in his family, and where it intersected with larger societal currents of history, race, and criminal justice.
• After a devastating mass shooting in 1996, Australia enacted sweeping gun laws banning semi-automatic guns, introducing waiting periods, stronger background checks and a government buy back program. Philip Alpers, professor at the University of Sydney and founding director of GunPolicy.org, talks about whether the Australian model for gun control would work in the US, even after the Australian Prime Minister recently declined to make any comparisons between the two countries.
• Richard Haass, American diplomat, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of — now in paperback — A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (Penguin Press, 2017), talks about U.S. foreign policy under President Trump.
• John Chaneski, co-host of TriviaNYC's QNA podcast, as well as a puzzle guru on NPR's Ask Me Another, quizzes listeners on movie music trivia.