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"What was Alan Freed famous for?" asked our editor Mark just before our editorial meeting.

Pause.

"You all need to do your research."

Mark was right. After all, World Have Your Say are heading to Cleveland, Ohio, next week to visit our partner station, WCPN, and Alan Freed was one of Cleveland's most influential residents.

Whilst in Cleveland, we will be doing two broadcasts:

Monday 10th October

You can catch Ros on WCPN's Sound of Ideas show from around 9am local time (1300 GMT).

We will then be broadcasting live from the Allen Theatre for the City Club Conference on Free Speech. We're on at the usual time (1700 GMT, 1300 local time) and we'd love to see you all there; pop over a couple hours early to get tickets.

Tuesday 11th October

We'll be live from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1700 GMT, 1300 local time)! They have a great Women Who Rock exhibition, that you might like to peruse.

Then we want to meet you! We'll be at the Harp from 1700 local time to 1900, so please come say hello!

We can't wait to meet some of you!

Oh, and Alan Freed coined the term 'Rock & Roll.'

 

World Have Your Say will be in Fort Myers, Florida this week meeting people who listen on WCGU and talking about the big stories of the day. Here's where we'll be:

Thursday 6th October

We will be broadcasting live from the streets of Florida at 1700 GMT. If you'd like to join the conversation, come down to Sugden Plaza, right by the Sugden Community Theatre in Naples. We'd love to see you all there.

On the evening of Thursday 6th it would be great to meet up with some of you, so join us for drinks at Bar Louie at the Gulf Coast Town Centre in Fort Myers, from 1730 - 1930 local time.

Friday 7th October

We'll be live from WGCU's TV studios with an audience of 170 people. It's sold out !

You can follow WGCU on Facebook and on twitter.

Ros will talking to people 10 years after 9/11. We'll be asking how America has changed and how you see America now.

We'll be in Indianapolis Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday where Ros will be doing three jobs in three days.

And we'll be in New York, Thursday and Friday.

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Here's the World Have Your Say TV broadcast on BBC World News on 02 September 2011.

We discussed what should happen to Libya and looked into a report suggesting that the US government may sue a number of banks that they believe were responsible for the global financial crisis of 2008.

WHYS is heading to the States next week to explore the long-term impact that the 9/11 attacks have had on America. We're going to begin in Indianapolis (where we'll be helped by our friends at WFYI), and over three programmes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, I'll help out at a BBQ stand at Rib America festival, at a hospital and at a reform institution for people serving prison sentences.

Then we move onto New York, from where we'll broadcast a studio show on the Thursday, before stepping onto the streets of Manhattan for a range of broadcasts on the Friday.

If you'd like to take part in any way, get in touch with me on twitter or facebook.