Program Guide
A Prairie Home Companion
- Sunday 12-2pm
- Saturday 5-7pm
Acoustic Café
- Saturday 2-4pm
Acoustic Café showcases new and classic acoustic music, airing recordings from some of the best singer-songwriters in the business, plus live in-studio interviews and performances. It's hard to put a definitive label on Acoustic Café's music selections. After all, a good song is a good song … any individual set of music could contain a bit of country, rock, blues, folk, pop … and more! The program is produced and hosted by Rob Reinhart.
All Things Considered
- Sunday 4-5pm
- Monday 3-5:30pm
- Tuesday 3-5:30pm
- Wednesday 3-5:30pm
- Thursday 3-5:30pm
- Friday 3-5:30pm
- Saturday 4-5pm
- Sunday 4-5pm
- Monday 3-5:30pm
- Monday 6-7pm
- Tuesday 3-5:30pm
- Tuesday 6-7pm
- Wednesday 3-5:30pm
- Wednesday 6-7pm
- Thursday 3-5:30pm
- Thursday 6-7pm
- Friday 3-5:30pm
- Friday 6-7pm
- Saturday 4-5pm
Since its debut in 1971, this afternoon radio newsmagazine has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Melissa Block, Michele Norris, and Robert Siegel present breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special -- sometimes quirky -- features. Arun Rath hosts a one-hour edition of the program on Saturday and Sunday.
Alternative Radio
- Sunday 11pm-Monday 12am
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs series that features diverse perspectives on national and international issues. Alternative Radio challenges conventional views and is dedicated to the founding principles of public broadcasting: "to serve as a forum for controversy and debate" and "provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard." Programs feature Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ralph Nader, Michael Parenti, Edward Said, Cornel West, and many others.
American Routes
- Friday 1-3pm
- Saturday 12-2pm
American Routes is a two-hour weekly excursion into American music, spanning eras and genres -- roots rock and soul, blues and country, jazz, gospel and beyond. From moody streets and muddy waters to purple mountains and the open range, America has produced an incredibly wide body of music, and host Nick Spitzer samples it all. He takes listeners on exciting musical journeys from the known to the unknown and back again, visiting sites with familiar sounds but also making side trips to the places where Cajun, klezmer, and Téjano flourish.
Ask Me Another
- Saturday 11am-12pm
NPR's Ask Me Another is a lively hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia played in front of (and with) a live audience. Ask Me Another's entertaining melange of brainteasers and fun is a descendant of Weekend Edition Sunday's Puzzle Segment with Will Shortz, but infused with the vibrancy and quick wit of Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.
Bandscape
- Sunday 10-11am
Bandscape features music from wind bands -- performing ensembles consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family. Military bands, collegiate and community bands make up a repertoire that celebrates the tradition of wind music. Hosted by Jason Rinehart.
Bayou Diversity
- Monday, 9:00 a.m.
- Thursday, 1:00 p.m.
Kelby Ouchley, former manager of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, provides expert insight into the flora and fauna of Louisiana. Archived editions of Bayou Diversity are available in our Listening Room.
BBC Newshour
"For more than 80 years, the BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. No other news organization has a network of international correspondents, reporters and producers to rival the BBC. Whenever and wherever news breaks, the BBC World Service is there.
Much more than a breaking-news feed, the BBC World Service offers a variety of information programming, including programs on arts, sports, science and business.
Listeners count on the BBC to provide superior news and information programming because they know the BBC World Service is the most respected news source on the planet."
Beale Street Caravan
- Saturday 11pm-Sunday 12am
Produced in The Home of the Blues -- Memphis, Tennessee -- Beale Street Caravan takes listeners to exciting live Blues events, covering the world with the heartfelt sounds and colorful stories of the Blues and its music makers. Each week, the audience is taken to the greatest Blues venues in Memphis and around the US. The world's best Blues artists are featured in intimate performances and recorded the way the Blues were meant to be heard -- burning up a stage in front of a Blues-loving audience. The program is hosted by Pat Mitchell, with Feature Host segments from industry insiders such as Jerry Wexler, Bob Porter, or Cybill Shepherd.