Each two-hour program features four or five guests and is recorded with a live audience. Each guest performs a three- to six-song segment. Each show weaves the program regulars and local station ID op... (view more)
Ira Glass combines documentary journalism with other kinds of storytelling: radio monologues, found tapes, short fiction and interviews. Sidestepping sensationalism, Ira and his staff serve up narrati... (view more)
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while ... (view more)
Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features progr... (view more)
For two hours every weekday, hosts Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features.
From civil wars in Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police stations, and America's backyards, National Public Radio's Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a well-traveled p... (view more)
Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and ev... (view more)
Produced every weekday in Boston, this is a fast-paced program that covers up-to-the-minute news and also provides regular features on food and cooking, science and technology, and personal finance, a... (view more)
Guided by your host Fiona Ritchie, step into the heart of an ancient tradition of reels, jigs, ballads, and laments. Then follow the pulse towards new music: an exuberant blend of irresistible rhythms... (view more)
Each week, To the Best of Our Knowledge brings you two hours of in-depth interviews with nationally and internationally-known guests whose passion for new ideas will challenge and engage.
Unlike most other American programs, we're not here to gloss over the news. We offer a critical review of American media and ask journalists to be responsible to their principles.
Just because it's the weekend doesn't mean you can't keep up with current affairs. Relax with a mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features.
Up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, commentary, and coverage of arts and sports. That unique mix of news and culture has made this enduring program a national favorite.
Jazz After Hours is a late night jazz radio show hosted by Jeff Hanley heard Friday and Saturday nights across the U.S. and parts of Canada. Like the last set at a jazz club, the mood is mellow but no... (view more)
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music: blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun a... (view more)
Since 1991, host David Dye has been exploring the frontiers of contemporary music for his listeners on a daily basis, making sense of a world of music. Featuring live performance and interviews with e... (view more)
Afropop Worldwide is the U.S.A.'s first and longest-lived program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. Afropop Worldwide draws on an unprecedented array of reporters, artists, and cultural... (view more)
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Echoes (PRI)
Bringing together a wide array of styles --from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. The sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms,... (view more)