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Based on our highly scientific RADIOTYPE calibrator, the shows below are just a few of the things we think you'll love.
Anything You Ever Wanted To Know
Questions are answered and knowledge is revealed on this long-running weekly call-in show hosted by Jeff Whittington. Submit your question or answer at anything@kera.org or 1-800-933-5372.
Hearing Voices
Weekly series produced from broadcasts, podcasts, sound portraits, slam poets, features, found sound, audio archives, audio art, and documentaries.
Humankind
Humankind presents the riveting stories of everyday people who have found real purpose in life. Living by their principles - compassion, service, generosity, spirituality, equality and integrity - they make a profound difference in the quality of life in their communities.
PBS NewsHour
Millions of Americans turn to PBS NewsHour for the solid, reliable reporting that has made the long-running program one of the most trusted news programs on television and radio.
The People's Pharmacy
Everything from home remedies to the latest breakthrough drugs are discussed on The People's Pharmacy. Pharmacologist Joe Graedon and medical anthropologist Terry Graedon talk to leading experts to discuss issues relating to drugs, herbs, home remedies, vitamins and related health topics.
Science Friday
Explore science topics that are in the news through educated, balanced discussion with expert guests.
Snap Judgment
Host Glynn Washington takes you on a narrative journey, exploring decisions that define lives.
The State We're In
Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, The State We're In explores global events by talking to people who are directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term.
The Takeaway
The Takeaway, hosted by John Hockenberry, delivers news and analysis through unique conversations about topics of the day with both newsmakers and diverse voices including those of listeners nationwide. The Takeaway is co-produced by PRI and New York Public Radio, in collaboration with the New York Times and WGBH Radio Boston.
Tell Me More
Capturing the headlines, issues, and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin.
Think
Insightful discussion of topics ranging from history, current events and technology to food and wine, travel and entertainment.
The Diane Rehm Show
Thoughtful, lively conversations on an array of topics with distinguished people of our times.
Radiolab
Stories and science are woven together into compelling sound and music-rich documentaries.
Studio 360® from PRI and WNYC
Host Kurt Andersen and guests look at the myriad intersections between the arts, popular culture and everyday life, with current issues and trends as the jumping-off points.
BBC Newshour
With the world's 24-hour news cycle now more intense and unrelenting than ever, BBC Newshour cuts through the background noise and provides you a definitive take on the big stories of the day.
A Way With Words
Public radio's show about words and language and how we use them, with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.
TED Radio Hour
Journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.
All Things Considered
Catch up on events of the day with this drive-time mix of news, reviews, and offbeat features.
BBC World Service
International news, analysis and information from the BBC's global network of correspondents. The World Service provides news and reports on location, as well as insightful analysis of current events.
Car Talk
Brothers and mechanics Ray and Tom Magliozzi chat about cars and dispense advice to callers.
Fresh Air
This Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues hosted by Terry Gross gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics, commentators and more.
Latino USA
This radio journal of news and culture is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.
Marketplace
Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace presents business news that's in-depth, understandable, and interesting. It's news on business, economics, and money for the rest of us.
Morning Edition
This newsmagazine prepares you for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, commentary, and coverage of the arts and sports.
A Prairie Home Companion
Long-running live radio variety show hosted by Garrison Keillor, featuring comedy sketches, music, and Keillor's signature monologue, "The News from Lake Wobegon."
This American Life
This American Life, with host Ira Glass, documents and describes contemporary America with stories that are alternately engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing, and bittersweet. This American Life is produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by PRI.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me
A weekly news quiz show with celebrity guests.
Weekend Edition Saturday
Host Scott Simon delivers hard news, interviews a variety of newsmakers, and covers cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
Weekend Edition Sunday
This newsmagazine fit for Sunday mornings combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features that appeal to the curious and eclectic.
Travel With Rick Steves
Travel with Rick Steves is a fun, hour-long weekly talk show with guest experts, practical advice and calls and questions from travelers.
PRIs The World®
This weekday radio news magazine from PRI offers news, features, interviews, and music from around the globe.
XPoNential Radio
A unique mix of emerging and heritage contemporary musicians, XPoNential serves up an eclectic blend of blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country.
World Café
New and Significant music and the artists who create it, with David Dye
The Story
A daily radio show (and podcast) of people's remarkable personal stories, hosted by Dick Gordon. From North Carolina Public Radio and American Public Media.
Film Soceyology
Hosted by WFYIs film guru Matthew Socey, Film Soceyology features criticism and commentary on recently released movies, as well as DVD releases and general film chatter. Expect guests ranging from Deborah Asante to Ed Johnson-Ott, actors and musicians, film critics and reviewers from Indianapolis and beyond.
Le Show
A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer.
The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party - an hour-long celebration of culture, food, and conversation designed to help you dazzle your friends at this weekends get-together. In every episode youll learn a joke bone up on an odd bit of history and then wash it down with a themed cocktail meet an artist of note (say, Spike Lee or Willie Nelson) learn the answers to your burning etiquette questions savor an emerging food trend and hear your new favorite song. Plus, unconventional wisdom from hosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam.
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions fires up smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music, from cutting-edge underground rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, electronica, worldbeat, or just about any other genre you can name.
The Moth Radio Hour
From PRX, The Moth Radio Hour is a weekly show that features true stories told live, on stage without notes. Each Moth Radio Hour mixes humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant tales that captivate audiences with their honesty and bravery.
The Cool Down
Kick off your Saturday night with The Cool Down, a weekly program showcasing the music of Brazil. Join host, Coby Slagle, for an hour of cool samba, bossa nova, MPB and more.
Art of the Matter
Celebrate the many ways the arts can enliven, inform, challenge, fulfill and make listeners better citizens of their community and the world with The Art of the Matter.
Folktales
For one hour every week, Julia takes listeners around the world as she explores a theme that touches the human spirit. From steel drum bands to didgeridoos, from Americana to Arabesque, Julia and her listeners consider how the traditions, customs, heritage, and myths of our world have been expressed through music.
Pipedreams
Celebrating the pipe organ, The King of instruments.
From the Top
This series showcases the nation's most outstanding young classical musicians, whose stunning individual performances are combined with lively interviews, lighthearted sketches, and musical games.
American Routes
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 and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Now celebrating in our 9th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musicall and cultural threads in these American styles and genresof music -- and how they are distinguished.
Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage blends studio quality with live performance before a theater audience. Features four or five guests and is recorded with a live audience. Each guest performs a three- to six-song segment.
The Treatment
A "treatment," in Hollywood parlance, is a concise overview of a screenplay. On The Treatment, film critic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the "treatment" to some of the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment.
The Thistle & Shamrock
Listen to field recordings of Irish traditional music in the United States. And contemporary musicians Mick Moloney and Liz Carroll offer their own performances.
The Animal House
The Animal House is a weekly discussion that explores the latest in animal science, pet behavior, and wildlife conservation. We hope to deepen human understanding of animals and explain the powerful bonds that link us to the animal world. Our goal is to be fun, substantive, and appealing to a broad audience -- both those with pets and those without them.
Here and Now
Hosted by Robin Young, "Here & Now" is public radio's midday news magazine, combining the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to update the mornings news and add important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts. Produced by WBUR and distributed by PRI.
Talk of the Nation
This call-in talk show invites you to join enlightening discussions with decision-makers, authors, experts, and artists from around the world.
Echoes
With host John Diliberto, a writer for Billboard, Pulse and other magazines, Echoes brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.
The Splendid Table
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Florida Frontier
The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society is a weekly, half-hour radio program airing on public radio stations throughout the state beginning in January 2009. The program is a combination of interview segments and produced features covering history-based events, exhibitions, activities, places and people in Florida. We explore the relevance of Florida history to contemporary society and promote awareness of heritage and culture tourism options in the state.
American Variety
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On Point
Lively conversation covers everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens from around the world.
Hearts of Space
Slow music for fast times. New age spacemusic with a varied mix of ambient electronic sound.
On the Media
On the Media explores how the media "sausage" is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens that we literally see the world and the world sees us.
Only a Game
Tells the stories behind the box scores.
The California Report
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To the Point
Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.
Day 6
Day 6 is a delivers a surprising take on the week, bringing original and unexpected angles on the stories you're talking about, from current affairs to pop culture, thrown in with some irreverent columnists and playful use of sound and texture. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and distributed in the U.S. by PRI.
Says You
A game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster.
Q with Jian Ghomeshi
Q is an energetic daily arts, culture and entertainment magazine that takes you on a smart and surprising ride, interviewing personalities and tackling the cultural issues that matter. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, with his trademark wit and spontaneity, Q covers pop culture and high arts alike with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and distributed In the U.S. by PRI.
PBS NewsHour
Millions of Americans turn to PBS NewsHour for the solid, reliable reporting that has made the long-running program one of the most trusted news programs on television and radio.
Radiolab
Stories and science are woven together into compelling sound and music-rich documentaries.
Here and Now
Here! Now! In the moment! Paddling in the middle of a fast moving stream of news and information. Here & Now is Public Radios daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after Morning Edition and before All Things Considered.
On the Media
On the Media explores how the media "sausage" is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens that we literally see the world and the world sees us.
Travel With Rick Steves
Travel with Rick Steves is a fun, hour-long weekly talk show with guest experts, practical advice and calls and questions from travelers.
Car Talk
Brothers and mechanics Ray and Tom Magliozzi chat about cars and dispense advice to callers.
A Way With Words
Public radio's show about words and language and how we use them, with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.
All Things Considered
Catch up on events of the day with this drive-time mix of news, reviews, and offbeat features.
TED Radio Hour
Journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.
Fresh Air
This Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues hosted by Terry Gross gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics, commentators and more.
BBC World Service
International news, analysis and information from the BBC's global network of correspondents. The World Service provides news and reports on location, as well as insightful analysis of current events.
Latino USA
This radio journal of news and culture is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.
Marketplace
Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace presents business news that's in-depth, understandable, and interesting. It's news on business, economics, and money for the rest of us.
A Prairie Home Companion
Long-running live radio variety show hosted by Garrison Keillor, featuring comedy sketches, music, and Keillor's signature monologue, "The News from Lake Wobegon."
This American Life
This American Life, with host Ira Glass, documents and describes contemporary America with stories that are alternately engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing, and bittersweet. This American Life is produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by PRI.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me
A weekly news quiz show with celebrity guests.
The Animal House
The Animal House is a weekly discussion that explores the latest in animal science, pet behavior, and wildlife conservation. We hope to deepen human understanding of animals and explain the powerful bonds that link us to the animal world. Our goal is to be fun, substantive, and appealing to a broad audience -- both those with pets and those without them.
Ask Me Another
A rambunctious hour that blends brainteasers and local pub trivia night with comedy and music.