# List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2011

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 2, 2011 | Bob Samuelson | |
| January 9, 2011 | Martha Raddatz | |
| January 16, 2011 | Students from The Washington Center | |
| January 23, 2011 | Christopher Hitchens | The discussion with Hitchens was at his home in Washington D.C., and took place during the course of his treatment for his esophageal cancer. |
| January 30, 2011 | Former President George W. Bush | The discussion took place at Southern Methodist University, the future site of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Nineteen students from that university took part in the interview. Bush's memoir Decision Points featured in the discussion. |
| February 6, 2011 | Mick Caouette | Featured discussion of Caouette's documentary Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible. |
| February 13, 2011 | R. Gerald Turner | Featured discussion of Turner's role as President of Southern Methodist University. |
| February 20, 2011 | Donald Rumsfeld | Featured discussion of Rumsfeld's memoir, Known and Unknown. |
| February 27, 2011 | Winslow Wheeler | |
| March 6, 2011 | Sally Jenkins | |
| March 13, 2011 | John C. Hulsman | |
| March 20, 2011 | Kathryn Wylde | Featured discussion of the Partnership for New York City. |
| March 27, 2011 | Charles Blow | |
| April 3, 2011 | Stephen Goldsmith | |
| April 10, 2011 | Melissa Lee | |
| April 17, 2011 | Andrew Ferguson | Featured discussion of Ferguson's book Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College. |
| April 24, 2011 | Mike Daisey | |
| May 1, 2011 | Carol Guzy | |
| May 8, 2011 | Dick Couch | |
| May 15, 2011 | Richard Miniter | Featured discussion of Miniter's book Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. |
| May 22, 2011 | David McCullough | Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. (Part one of two parts.) |
| May 29, 2011 | David McCullough | Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. (Part two of two parts.) |
| June 5, 2011 | James Grant | Featured discussion of Grant's book on Thomas B. Reed, Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, The Man Who Broke the Filibuster. |
| June 12, 2011 | Pierre Thomas | Featured discussion of Thomas's role as Senior Justice Correspondent for ABC News. |
| June 19, 2011 | Andrew Rossi | Featured discussion of Rossi's documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. |
| June 26, 2011 | Russ Roberts and John Papola | Featured discussion of Roberts's podcast EconTalk and Roberts and Papola's music video Fear the Boom and Bust. |
| July 3, 2011 | Scott Miller | Featured discussion of Miller's book The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. |
| July 10, 2011 | Nick Gillespie | |
| July 17, 2011 | Carol Highsmith | |
| July 24, 2011 | Erik Larson | Featured discussion of Larson's book In the Garden of Beasts, about U.S. Ambassador to Germany William Dodd. |
| July 31, 2011 | Juan Williams | Featured discussion of Williams's book Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. |
| August 7, 2011 | Alyona Minkovski | Featured discussion of The Alyona Show. |
| August 14, 2011 | Washington Journalism and Media Conference | Featured discussion with high school students attending the Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University. |
| August 21, 2011 | Pamela Constable | Featured discussion of Constable's book, Playing With Fire: Pakistan At War With Itself. |
| August 28, 2011 | Clarence Lusane | Featured discussion of Lusane's book The Black History of the White House. |
| September 4, 2011 | Miles J. Unger | Featured discussion of Unger's book Machiavelli: A Biography. |
| September 11, 2011 | N/A | Preempted due to Live Coverage of 9/11 Events |
| September 18, 2011 | Ivan Kander and Rob Jones | Featured discussion of Kander's documentary Survive. Recover. Live. The Rob Jones Story, about the injuries sustained by his friend Jones during his service in the U.S. Marine Corps in the War in Afghanistan. |
| September 25, 2011 | Naomi Schaefer Riley | Featured discussion of Riley's book The Faculty Lounges and Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Paid For, about tenure in higher education. |
| October 2, 2011 | Cary Nelson | Featured discussion of Nelson's role as the president of the American Association of University Professors, including Nelson's responses to comments made by Naomi Schaefer Riley in the previously aired interview. The taping of this program was interrupted by the 2011 Virginia earthquake. |
| October 9, 2011 | John Paul Stevens | Featured discussion of Stevens's book Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir. |
| October 16, 2011 | Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa | Featured discussion of Quiñones-Hinojosa's book Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon. |
| October 23, 2011 | Gov. Mitch Daniels | This interview took place on the campus of Purdue University and featured discussion of Daniels's book Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans. |
| October 30, 2011 | Jill Abramson | Featured discussion of Abramson's book The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout and her role as executive editor of The New York Times. |
| November 6, 2011 | Stacy Schiff | Featured discussion of Schiff's biography of Cleopatra. |
| November 13, 2011 | Karl Marlantes | Featured discussion of Marlantes's book What It Is Like To Go To War. |
| November 20, 2011 | Lawrence Lessig | Featured discussion of Lessig's book Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It. |
| November 27, 2011 | Simon Winchester | Featured discussion of Winchester's book Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, |
| December 4, 2011 | Carl Colby | Featured discussion of Colby's documentary, The Man Nobody Knew, about his father, William Colby. |
| December 11, 2011 | Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson | |
| December 18, 2011 | John Feinstein | Featured discussion of Feinstein's book One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game. |
| December 25, 2011 | Michelle Fields | |