# List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2009

Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
| Original air date (Links to video) | Interviewee(s) | Comments |
| January 4, 2009 | Robert Caro | Featured discussion of Caro's multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. |
| January 11, 2009 | Rep. Larry Kissell and Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao | |
| January 18, 2009 | Carol and Tom Wheeler | Featured discussion of the Presidential transition of Barack Obama |
| January 25, 2009 | John Doar | |
| February 1, 2009 | Eliot Cohen | |
| February 8, 2009 | Stephanie Miller | |
| February 15, 2009 | Maryjane Behforouz | Featured discussion of the Mar Elias Campus. |
| February 22, 2009 | Rep. Barbara Lee | Featured discussion of Lee's book Renegade for Peace & Justice. |
| March 1, 2009 | Matthew Continetti | |
| March 8, 2009 | Erica Williams | Featured discussion of Campus Progress. |
| March 15, 2009 | Cliff Groh | Featured discussion of the trial of Ted Stevens |
| March 22, 2009 | Rich Mauer | Featured discussion of the trial of Ted Stevens |
| March 29, 2009 | Sharyl Attkisson | |
| April 5, 2009 | Dambisa Moyo | Featured discussion of Moyo's book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa. |
| April 12, 2009 | Mona Charen and Ruth Marcus | |
| April 19, 2009 | Janet Tavakoli | Featured discussion of Tavakoli's book "Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street. |
| April 26, 2009 | Christopher Hitchens | |
| May 3, 2009 | Evan Osnos | |
| May 10, 2009 | Ross Douthat | |
| May 17, 2009 | Melanie Sloan | Featured discussion of Sloane's role as executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. |
| May 24, 2009 | Tom Fitton | Featured discussion of Fitton's role as president of Judicial Watch. |
| May 31, 2009 | Colbert King | |
| June 7, 2009 | Gov. Mitch Daniels | |
| June 14, 2009 | Larry Arnn | Featured discussion of Arnn's role as president of Hillsdale College. |
| June 21, 2009 | Douglas Brinkley | Part one of interview with Brinkley about his book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. |
| June 28, 2009 | Douglas Brinkley | Part two of interview with Brinkley about his book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. |
| July 5, 2009 | Walter Kirn | Featured discussion of Kirn's book Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever. |
| July 12, 2009 | Allis & Ronald Radosh | Featured discussion of the Radoshes' book A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and The Founding of Israel. |
| July 19, 2009 | Walt Mossberg | |
| July 26, 2009 | Susan Jacoby | Featured discussion of Jacoby's book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History. |
| August 2, 2009 | Bruce Chadwick | Featured discussion of Chadwick's book I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing that Shocked a New Nation. |
| August 9, 2009 | Frank Rich | |
| August 16, 2009 | Ellis Cose | |
| August 23, 2009 | Frank Mankiewicz | |
| August 30, 2009 | Dr. John Garrett | Featured discussion of Garrett's roles as Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Virginia Hospital Center. |
| September 6, 2009 | T.R. Reid | Featured discussion of Reid's book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. |
| September 13, 2009 | Christopher Caldwell | Featured discussion of Caldwell's book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. |
| September 20, 2009 | Neil Sheehan | Featured discussion of Sheehan's book A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon. |
| September 27, 2009 | Richard Baker | |
| October 4, 2009 | Mark Farkas | Featured discussion of C-SPAN's documentary on the United States Supreme Court. |
| October 11, 2009 | Tracy Kidder | Featured discussion of Kidder's book Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness. |
| October 18, 2009 | S.E. Cupp | |
| October 25, 2009 | Barry Black | Featured discussion of Black's role as Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy. |
| November 1, 2009 | Ken Auletta | Featured discussion of Auletta's book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. |
| November 8, 2009 | Melvin Urofsky | Featured discussion of Urofsky's biography of Louis Brandeis. |
| November 15, 2009 | Raymond Smock | |
| November 22, 2009 | Judy Shelton | |
| November 29, 2009 | Naomi Klein | |
| December 6, 2009 | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| December 13, 2009 | Michael Fauntroy | |
| December 20, 2009 | Robert W. Merry | Featured discussion of Merry's book A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent. |
| December 27, 2009 | Omar Wasow | Featured discussion of BlackPlanet.com. |