12:00am BBC World Service
6:00am Performance Today Live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Daily program information is available in the HPR-1 program listings.
8:00am The Conversation with Beth-Ann Kozlovich and Chris Vandercook. For, by, and about the people of Hawaii, the co-hosts will be talking to all sorts of people about all sorts of things, from the state’s budget crisis to huli-huli chicken, with island-to-island interviews and features on science, arts and culture, agriculture, politics, tourism, and of course everyday life.
9:00am Monday-Thursday The Takeaway The Takeaway is the national morning news program that delivers the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead. Host John Hockenberry, along with the The New York Times and WGBH Boston, invites listeners every morning to learn more and be part of the American conversation on-air and online here at thetakeaway.org. The Takeaway is a unique partnership of global news leaders. It is a co-production of PRI (Public Radio International) and WNYC Radio in collaboration with The New York Times and WGBH Boston.
9:00am Friday Science Friday Journalist Ira Flatow is joined by listeners and studio guests to explore science-related topics - from subatomic particles and the human genome to the Internet and earthquakes. Flatow offers in-depth discussion with scientists and others from all walks of life, giving listeners the chance to hear from the people whose work influences their daily lives.
10:00am Monday-Thursday BBC World Service
11:00am The World
12:00pm All Things Considered
2:00pm BBC World Service
3:00pm Fresh Air Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.
4:00pm-6:00pm (see below for daily programming)
6:00pm Marketplace Award-winning Marketplace is public radio's daily magazine on business and economics news "for the rest of us."
6:30pm-midnight (see below for daily programming)
1 THURSDAY
4:00pm Says You! Taped in front of live audiences at various locations nationwide, 'Says You!' features six panelists divided into two teams of three that bluff, guess, and expound their way through this fast-paced program.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell Are Our Pets Making Us Sick? The good news? Biologist Emily Lilly (Virginia Military Institute) says that all the hype about getting diseases from your cat’s litter is not something to worry about. The bad news? It’s because those parasites aren’t just in cat litter—they’re everywhere! Plus: There are 300,000 likely human cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. each year. Anne Zajac (Virginia Tech) says that number is on the rise. And: There’s a new vaccine to help protect dogs against Lyme disease. One of its developers, Richard Marconi (Virginia Commonwealth University), says his team hopes a human vaccine isn’t far behind.
7:00pm Freakonomics Radio with Stephen J. Dubner. Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Rebroadcast) Stephen hosts a live quiz show called “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know.” Contestants try to wow celebrity judges with their most surprising facts - about the science of love, taxes during the Civil War, and phony college degrees.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
2 FRIDAY
4:00pm Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. School is back in session, so Studio 360 is hitting the books. Kurt calls up his favorite teacher from high school to compare notes, the novelist Nicholson Baker signs up to be a substitute teacher, and comedian Aparna Nancherla reveals the shocking secret that destroyed her career in science before it started.
5:00pm On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. Engaging conversation, insightful commentaries, illuminating reports, and listener calls explore how information, news gathering, and the variety of media available today affect our culture.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features the most insightful news analysts anywhere. Josh Barro, Senior Editor at Business Insider, moderates from the Center. Rich Lowry, of the National Review, is on the Right. On the Left is Leon Krauze, anchor for Univision's KMEX in LA. Our special guest is Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute.
7:00pm The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Presidential candidate, was once a staunch advocate for legalizing marijuana. The former New Mexico governor joins David in a discussion about his new pot-free life, Social Security reform, and whether schoolteachers should have semiautomatic rifles in the classroom. Plus, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen and Kelefa Sanneh listen to a track from Olsen’s latest album, “My Woman”; a curator at the American Museum of Natural History spiffs up a dead bee; actor Reed Birney reads Donald Barthelme’s classic short story “The School”; and Joshua Rothman investigates our obsession with travelling to Mars.
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm B-Sides and Beyond with Jon Alan
3 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
9:00am The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper. Guest host Francis Lam talks to legendary chef Jacques Pepin about the lessons learned in a well-roasted chicken. Journalist Kurt Soller joins us to talk about the Silicon Valley quest for the perfect vegan all-American ground-beef patty and contributor Melissa Clark checks in with Dan Pashman, host of the podcast, The Sporkful about the lunch order that changed the world. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab Parasites (rebroadcast) Could parasites be the shadowy hands that pull the strings of life? We explore nature's moochers, with tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe). And we examine claims that some parasites may actually be good for you.
11:00am Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightning speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Bill Kurtis is official judge and scorekeeper.
12:00pm All Things Considered NPR's newsmagazine presenting breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.
1:00pm This American Life What’s Going On In There Often we see someone’s situation from the outside and think we know exactly what’s going on. This week we get inside and find out just how much more interesting the reality of it is. Including a teenaged girl who records a remarkable story about the boyfriend who abuses her, and why it’s so hard to break up with him.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour REM, Car Wrecks and the Circus In this hour, we explore What Went Wrong: a dad gets chummy with a rock star and causes havoc, a childhood trauma shapes a super model’s outlook and The Big Apple Circus imports communist acrobats..at the height of the cold war. Hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns.
3:00pm The Dinner Party Download Actor Craig Robinson ("The Office") shows off his dramatic chops (and his German) in "Morris from America"... Phoebe Waller-Bridge-- star of Amazon's buzzy new series "Fleabag"-- pulls off the ultimate stage prank... Rocker Angel Olsen reflects on lost cities, found lovers, and songs worth preaching about...And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle assists in solving a REAL mystery -- which we celebrate with a custom tipple. Plus, the humble origins of Sake, fall food (and restaurant bathroom!) trends from Bon Appetit, and tips on hotel tipping from the Posts.
4:00pm Brazilian Experience with Sandy Tsukiyama
6:00pm Bridging the Gap with Nicholas Yee
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
4 SUNDAY
12:00am Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
2:00am Blues before Sunrise with Steve Cushing
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
10:00am Krista Tippett On Being She works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, Mirabai Bush is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.
11:00am New Dimensions with Justine Toms The Great Turning or the Great Unraveling: It’s Our Choice (repeat) Dr. Joanna Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of “Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy.” Program #3446.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour The Act Of Listening (rebroadcast) Listening -- to loved ones, strangers, faraway places -- is an act of generosity and a source of discovery. In this episode, TED speakers describe how we change when we listen deeply.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm Jerry and Oscar Unlike Richard Rodgers or George Gershwin, Jerome Kern never had a single collaborator, but more than anymore, he wrote with Oscar Hammerstein.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. We're at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota with host Garrison Keillor and a live performance recorded at the Grandstand on Friday, September 2. Guitar wizard Leo Kottke stops by to unleash an arsenal of nimble licks and keen-edged songs; Anoka, Minn.'s own Ellie Dehn joins us with operatic talents honed in New York, California, Italy, Germany, and more; the Singing Sisters of Soul, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, are back to light up Dan Patch Avenue; Heather Masse sings a few duets with the host; and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers lead our Eleven-Thousand Voice Choir. Plus: the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman will Make Livestock and Pronto Pups Great Again; music director and pianist Rich Dworsky marshals our blue-ribbon radio band (drummer Bernie Dresel, bassist Larry Kohut, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and Chris Siebold on guitar); and an update on the latest News from Lake Wobegon, where the dog days of summer are over and gorgeous fall weather is in sight. Grab a bucket of fresh chocolate chip cookies and we'll see you just northeast of the Mighty Midway. (Beginning in October, musician extraordinaire Chris Thile will take over for Garrison Keillor as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion. Chris' wide range of musical taste, paired with his vast network of famous and talented friends, will draw new, diverse talent to public radio.)
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer The Best of American Routes live in Studio and On Stage This holiday weekend, we've hand picked some of the best live performances on American Routes. From Willie Nelson in our studio to soul queen Irma Thomas and other roots music heroes at Rock N Bowl, Preservation Hall and the Civic Theater in New Orleans. We feature blues harpist Charlie Musselwhite, Baton Rouge blues pianist, Henry Gray, New Orleans traditional jazz clarinetist Dr. Michael White and Topsy Chapman. Plus the Cajun band Beausoleil and zydeco accordionist Geno Delafose. And, from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Los Texmaniacs and the Chuck Brown Go-Go band.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs Elevens
5 MONDAY (Labor Day)
4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. Unprecedented weather has become commonplace in recent months, with record-breaking floods and raging drought-fueled wildfires. Now a leading weatherman says the familiar climate of the twentieth century has gone, and increasing extremes are the new normal. Also, the radioactive gas radon is a risk for lung cancer and increased fracking seems to correlate with rising rates of radon in homes.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg. Although central to our democracy, the American right to vote has evolved only gradually, as freed slaves, women and civil rights activists slowly won the franchise. Includes the dramatic tale of a 1964 Freedom Summer volunteer.
7:00pm Intelligence Squared U.S. Should We Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence? As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that it will help solve complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans. But AI’s critics say that we should proceed with caution. That its rewards may be overpromised, and that the pursuit of superintelligence and autonomous machines may result in unintended consequences. Is this the stuff of science fiction? Should we fear AI, or will these fears prevent the next technological revolution? Panelists include: Andrew Keen, Jaron Lanier, James Hughes and Martine Rothblatt.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves. Find out why ecologist Chris Morgan says that saving the habitat for bears can also save the planet for the rest of us; get a taste of what wildlife photographer Marty Essen encountered traveling between extremes, from the Arctic Refuge to the Florida Everglades; and hear one of Mexico's most respected authors share an insider's perspective on life in today's Mexico City. Juan Villoro explains why soccer is as important as religion, in defining what it means to be Mexican.
5:00pm Selected Shorts Untying Family Ties “The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, performed by Holly Hunter; “She Unnames Them,” by Ursula LeGuin, performed by Joanna Gleason. Guest host: Hope Davis.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air The second part of our program with Irish poet Sinead Morrissey.
7:00pm SPECIAL: The Making of Clinton and Trump: Character in the 2016 Election The 2016 presidential candidates are uniquely unpopular - why is that the case? Over the course of the hour, we will revisit their personal histories and explore episodes in which their character was forged. We'll begin by looking at key moments over the decades that helped cement their public reputations. Next, we'll explore the ways in which Clinton and Trump stood out from their peers even at a young age. And finally, we'll dive into aspects of their personalities that have turned into liabilities with voters: Clinton's need for privacy and Trump's desire for public attention.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
7 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn. Moira speaks with Daniel Levitin, Dean of Social Sciences at Minerva Schools at KGI, and the author of “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age.” Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital, featuring three female venture capitalists, all from Canaan Partners in Silicon Valley.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.
6:30pm CounterSpin with Janine Jackson. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
7:00pm Invisibilia The New Norm You probably don’t even notice them, but social norms determine so much of your behavior - how you dress, talk, eat, and even what you allow yourself to feel. These emotional norms are so entrenched we never imagine they can shift. But hosts Alix Spiegel, Hanna Rosin and Lulu Miller examine two social experiments that attempted to do just that: teach McDonald’s employees in Russia to smile, and workers on an oil rig how to cry.
8:00pm Latin Beat with Ray Cruz
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Says You! Taped in front of live audiences at various locations nationwide, 'Says You!' features six panelists divided into two teams of three that bluff, guess, and expound their way through this fast-paced program.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell Imagining Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. Kevin Concannon (Virginia Tech), an expert on Ono’s work, notes she was an accomplished and innovative artist long before she met Lennon. Plus: A new novel by Fred D’Aguiar (Virginia Tech) tells the story of a mother and daughter caught up in the tragic Jonestown mass suicide of 1978.
7:00pm Freakonomics Radio with Stephen J. Dubner. This week, some sanity in the midst of election madness. Stephen brings you ten ideas to make politics less rotten. We hear from politicians and scholars, donkeys and elephants, and everyone in between.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. How does a deadly plague inside “World of Warcraft” spread like a real virus? Also, rabies experts connect the dots between “The Iliad,” “Twilight,” and Louis Pasteur. And an apocalyptic world where children should be seen and not heard — the sound they make can be deadly.
5:00pm On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. Critics have long viewed Hillary Clinton as untrustworthy and dishonest. We revisit the crucial moment that set that view in stone. Plus, a guide for making sense of Islamophobic media coverage.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features the most insightful news analysts anywhere. Josh Barro, Senior Editor at Business Insider, moderates from the Center. On the Left is Katrina Van Den Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. Rich Lowry of the National Review is on the Right. Rick Wilson, Republican consultant and advisor to independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin, will be our Special Guest.
7:00pm The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick. In trendy places like Brooklyn and Silicon Valley, the drug of the moment is ayahuasca: a psychedelic brew that makes its users vomit, cry, envision their deaths, and occasionally, even attain enlightenment. The New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy investigates the hallucinogen. Jenny Allen seeks enlightenment, too, in the form of compassion for her obnoxious co-workers. She recites gathas for modern mindfulness. Plus, David talks politics and sports with the NBA's all-time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has reinvented himself as a writer.
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm B-Sides and Beyond with Jon Alan
10 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
9:00am The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper. It’s a conversation with tomato researcher Craig Le Houiller, author of “Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time.” Contributor Melissa Clark talks to Nicole Bermensolo about Japanese sweets; her book is “Kyotofu, Uniquely Japanese Desserts. Then, we talk to Andrew Moore about the elusive paw-paw. He’s the author of “Paw Paw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit.” Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab 60 Words This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace.
11:00am Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightning speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Bill Kurtis is official judge and scorekeeper.
12:00pm All Things Considered NPR's newsmagazine presenting breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.
1:00pm This American Life Becoming A Badger Stories about people trying their best to turn themselves into something else—like a badger. Or a professional comedian, in a language they didn’t grow up speaking.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour LA Confidential: Honor Guard, Swing Dancing, and Data Hacking for a Date In this hour, stories from Los Angeles. A divorced woman does a complete makeover on her lifestyle, an Air Force veteran describes what its like to be a member of The Honor Guard, a mourning woman looks for solace in swing dancing, a computer hacker messes with the algorithms of OKCupid. Hosted by The Moth’s Executive Producer, Sarah Austin Jenness.
3:00pm The Dinner Party Download Visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (PAN’S LABRYINTH) celebrates bugs, monsters, and his FX Series “THE STRAIN”… Comedian Dave Barry gives us etiquette advice and blames all of America for Florida… Actor Nicole Byer gets racially profiled by a child she babysits… Author Mark Greif lays out his case against exercise (and everything else)… rising R&B star Jamila Woods DJs your dinner party… Plus, “clean food,” a real-life tale of time-shifting, a timeless twist on the Dark n’ Stormy, and more!
4:00pm Brazilian Experience with Sandy Tsukiyama
6:00pm Bridging the Gap with Nicholas Yee
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
11 SUNDAY
12:00am Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
2:00am Blues before Sunrise with Steve Cushing
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
10:00am Krista Tippett On Being In the 15 years since its inception, Wikipedia has become as much a global community as a business venture - a living organism with a mission statement to make “the sum of all human knowledge available to every person in the world.” And a conversation with co-founder Jimmy Wales - one of the architects of that philosophy and the world-changing project that has grown up around it - is full of surprises. What Wikipedia is learning has resonance for our wider public life - about the imperfect but gratifying work of navigating truth amidst difference, ongoing learning, and dynamic belonging.
11:00am New Dimensions with Justine Toms Digging A Deep Well to Our Spiritual Waters (repeat) Mirabai Starr is a spiritual ecstatic. She’s gone deep into embracing the practices of many faith traditions. Here she shares the wisdom she discovered on her interspiritual path. She’s the author of “God of Love.” Program #3444.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour Big Data Revolution Once-invisible details of our lives can now be tracked and turned into data. Will this make life easier or more complicated? This hour, TED speakers imagine how Big Data will reshape our world.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm Telling Stories Every good song is dramatic. Right now, there’s a reason for this person to be singing these words. Confession may even be good for the soul—or the love affair.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. A rebroadcast from just before the beginning of our online archives, a show originally from April 1995 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Our good friend, live radio champion, and six-string hero, Chet Atkins stops by for a few songs, including "Mark My Word," singer Nanci Griffith performs "These Days in an Open Book"; and The Fairfield Four deliver a gospel tour de force on "Highway to Heaven." Plus: Robin and Linda Williams and Kate MacKenzie join forces with the host as the vaunted Hopeful Gospel Quartet for "I Am a Pilgrim" (they also turn in some music of their own -- "Over the Edge of the World" from Robin and Linda and "Forgive and Forget" from Kate and the band), a word from the Cafe Boeuf Nashville and our sound effects wizard Tom Keith, and Pat Donohue sings about "Stealin’ from Chet." In Lake Wobegon, Ann Marie travels to the city to give up a child for adoption. (Beginning in October, musician extraordinaire Chris Thile will take over for Garrison Keillor as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion. Chris' wide range of musical taste, paired with his vast network of famous and talented friends, will draw new, diverse talent to public radio.)
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer Rockin' the Blues with Sonny Burgess & Snooks Eaglin (repeat) Tune in and rock the blues with two guitar men who do it with great authority. First up is Arkansas wild man and original Sun Records rockabilly Sonny Burgess who still tears it up, playing his hits "We Wanna Boogie," "Red-Headed Woman" and others well into his seventies. And hear a live set from the late great New Orleans bluesman and human jukebox Snooks Eaglin, recorded in 2007 at his home base, the famous Rock ‘N’ Bowl nightclub, where one can do either of those, or both, at the same time. Feel the beat in blues, jazz, Western swing and more with a music mix designed to rock your blues away.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs Stations
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4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. China and the US, the biggest global warming gas emitters, just took a momentous step to deal with climate change. They ratified the Paris Agreement, setting the stage for the global deal to come into force before the next US administration takes office. Also, what’s at stake in the ongoing battle over a western pipeline that runs across Native American ancestral lands.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg. We chat with legendary environmental author Frances Moore Lappe and her daughter Anna, to learn how our food choices affect climate change. Then a look at "Meatless Monday", championed by Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney (whose song about it is included).
7:00pm Intelligence Squared U.S. Should the U.S. Eliminate Corporate Subsidies? The auto industry, agriculture, the energy sector. What do they have in common? These industries benefit from government subsidies in the form of loans, tax breaks, regulation, and other preferences. Critics say that not only do these subsidies transfer wealth from taxpayers to corporations, they distort the markets and our economy. Proponents say that government has an important role to play in launching innovation via strategic investment. Do we need subsidies, or is this corporate welfare? Panelists include: Jack Abramoff, Zephyr Teachout, Kate Gordon, and Michael Lind.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
13 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves. The September 11th attacks did not keep Terry Tempest Williams from traveling, even though she came close to being a target in Washington D.C. We'll hear how Terry found beauty in a broken world, from the people she met in her travels to Italy and to Rwanda. Phil Borges reveals what he's learned from photographing indigenous people around the world, and playwright Peter Wortsman tells us why he loves the ever-evolving nature of Berlin.
5:00pm Selected Shorts Animal Magnetism "Jerry and Molly and Sam," by Raymond Carver, performed by Ana Gasteyer; “Breaking the Pig,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Campbell Scott; “A Pale Pink Roast,” by Grace Paley, performed by Linda Lavin.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air Rockhurst University brings poets from around the country to do readings in Kansas City for the Midwest Poets Series. This program features three of those very different poets who live in Missouri, including the state’s first poet laureate, Walter Bargen, who is the author of more than a dozen books; Michelle Boisseau, who, along with her five collections of poetry, is the co-author of Writing Poems; and translator & current Missouri Poet Laureate, Aliki Barnstone. Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special compilation program.
7:00pm BBC World Service
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
14 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn. On this edition Moira speaks with Robert Cialdini, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, and the author of “Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade.” Then, on BioTech Nation, Dr. Daniel Kraft, Chair of Medicine at Singularity University, and founder of Exponential Medicine, tells us about the technologies that will change both medicine and patient experience in the future.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.
6:30pm CounterSpin with Janine Jackson. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
7:00pm Invisibilia The Personality Myth (repeat) We like to think of our own personalities and those of our family and friends as predictable and constant over time. But what if they aren’t? In this episode, Alix Spiegel visits a prison to explore whether there is such a thing as a stable personality. And Lulu Miller asks a neuroscientist how much humans actually change throughout their lives. The answer might surprise you.
8:00pm Latin Beat with Ray Cruz
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
15 THURSDAY
4:00pm Says You! Taped in front of live audiences at various locations nationwide, 'Says You!' features six panelists divided into two teams of three that bluff, guess, and expound their way through this fast-paced program.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell Pulitzer100: The Wondrous Junot Díaz “The half-life of love is forever,” writes Yunior, the serial-cheater protagonist of Junot Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her. In this special episode, we talk with the Pulitzer Prize winning author about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. Díaz’s characters are not perfect people—they’re nerds, outsiders, and antiheroes--but their stories are written to perfection.
7:00pm Freakonomics Radio with Stephen J. Dubner. Football player Phillip Buchanon celebrated with his family when he was picked up by the Oakland Raiders. Then, his mom asked him for one million dollars from his contract-- for raising him. This week, Freakonomics Radio asks economists: should kids reimburse their parents? Plus, Stephen and Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt share what they learned from their dads.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
16 FRIDAY
4:00pm Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. At the age of 92, Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick hasn’t lost any of the wit and insight that helped him write “Fiddler on the Roof.” Also, we find out what cutting-edge medical science can do to save the voices of aging singers. And indie singer-songwriter Angel Olsen plays live in our studio.
5:00pm On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. This election may be remembered as the moment when a formerly obscure white supremacist movement made it into the mainstream. We look at the rise of the “alt-right”. Plus, the national media has finally started covering Native American protests of a North Dakota pipeline, but some are worried it’s not enough.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features the most insightful news analysts anywhere. Josh Barro, Senior Editor at Business Insider, moderates from the Center. Rich Lowry of the National Review is on the Right. On the Left is Matthew Yglesias, Senior Correspondent at Vox). Keli Goff of the Daily Beast, and the host of WNYC's series Political Party, is our special guest.
7:00pm The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick. Modelling can be a tricky business for Muslim women who cover up. Judith Thurman visits Nailah Lymus, the head of a new modelling agency that represents the modestly dressed, and admires the bright, bold hijabs Lymus designs. Jill Soloway, the creator of “Transparent,” joins David in a discussion about her new show, “I Love Dick.” And two fans of the guitarist John Fahey mourn his difficult life and celebrate his transformational music.
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm B-Sides and Beyond with Jon Alan
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12:00am Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
9:00am The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper. We meet up with the duo behind the award-winning blog the Perennial Plate. They’re filming their 4th season of culinary and travel adventures, and they have a report from Colorado. British gardening expert Jekka McVicar schools us on the culinary uses of sage and contributor Von Diaz talks to Ronni Lundy, author of “Victuals,” about the history of salt works in Appalachia. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters 2016 The quest for scientific knowledge is one of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. It's also one of the most dangerous, frustrating, ego-driven, transcendent, dirty, sublime, tedious, demoralizing, inspiring...you get the idea. This hour, stories of love and loss in the name of science.
11:00am Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightning speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Bill Kurtis is official judge and scorekeeper.
12:00pm All Things Considered NPR's newsmagazine presenting breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.
1:00pm This American Life The Problem We All Live With Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour One Thing in Common Four stories of lessons learned. Lessons of sharing, flirting, parenting and religious texts. Hosted by Meg Bowles, Senior Producer.
3:00pm The Dinner Party Download Actor America Ferrera explains the “super” part of superstores… Comedian Norm Macdonald gives us etiquette advice and reveals why his new memoir, BASED ON A TRUE STORY, is full of lies… Childstar-turned-writer Mara Wilson confronts the hereafter… Noise rock pioneer Lou Barlow celebrates soft rock with a soundtrack for your dinner party… Plus, the history of Play-doh, a crimson cocktail, nanofish in your bloodstream, and more!
4:00pm Brazilian Experience with Sandy Tsukiyama
6:00pm Bridging the Gap with Nicholas Yee
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
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12:00am Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
2:00am Blues before Sunrise with Steve Cushing
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
10:00am Krista Tippett On Being Where does it hurt? That’s a question the civil rights icon Ruby Sales learned to ask during the days of that movement. It’s a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now, but it gets at human dynamics that we are living and reckoning with. At a convening of 20 theologians seeking to reimagine the public good of theology for this century, Ruby Sales unsettles some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, and names a “spiritual crisis of white America” as a calling of this time.
11:00am New Dimensions with Justine Toms Healing the Body by Clearing Emotional Energy When we feel pain in our body, it is usually a sign that something is wrong. When we experience injury, illness, or disease, we treat the symptoms with medication, physical therapy or alternative medicine. But sometimes treating the symptoms isn’t enough. Our bodies are often telling us that there is a disruption in our energy flow that is keeping us from getting well. Amy B. Scher is the author of “How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can: A Total Self-Healing Approach for Mind, Body & Spirit.” Program #3584.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour Extrasensory (rebroadcast) TED speakers question whether we can experience the world more deeply by not only extending our senses -- but going beyond them.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm Mark Twain’s America The music Huck and Tom might have heard on their way along the Mississippi.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. A rebroadcast from October 2004 at our home base in Saint Paul, the Fitzgerald Theater. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mark Knopfler plays "Back to Tupelo" and "Song for Sonny Liston"; folk and blues singer Geoff Muldaur performs "The Whale Swallowed Jonah" and "Small Town Talk"; and accordionist Dan Newton sits in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band for a medley of Bob Dylan tunes, polka-style. Plus: Guy Noir visits a psychologist; an exploration of Saint Paul, City of Ambiguity; and an update on the News from Lake Wobegon. (Beginning in October, musician extraordinaire Chris Thile will take over for Garrison Keillor as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion. Chris' wide range of musical taste, paired with his vast network of famous and talented friends, will draw new, diverse talent to public radio.)
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer Horsepower: The Cowboy Rides Into the Future (repeat) From the Nevada deserts to the swampy forests of Florida, the cowboy is an enduring symbol of American individualism and self-reliance. We’ll visit with several working cowboys, including a few who can sing a tune or two. Wylie Gustafson might be better known as the man behind the Yahoo yodel, but we’ll talk ranching and horses, as well as music. Then we’ll visit with Creole cowboy Geno Delafose to learn how he mixes zydeco with cattle raising. Plus a couple of Cracker cowboys share tales of cow-hunting, and lots of music to get you out on the trail.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs Lou Reid and Carolina Live
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4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. The Obama Administration’s halt of construction of a pipeline crossing Native American ancestral lands could be a game-changer in relations between the Feds and Indian country. We examine what’s at stake there. Also, we take a look at how the simplicity and demands of farm work can bring calm and hope to veterans suffering the hidden wounds of war.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg. Seeking to comfort people who may feel afraid, angry and alone, we hear moving stories from chaplains at hospitals, who serve patients and their families facing a medical emergency, and even a life-threatening condition.
7:00pm Intelligence Squared U.S. Do Hunters Conserve Wildlife? In 2014, a permit to hunt a single endangered black rhino was sold for $350,000 as part of a program to support its conservation in Namibia. Counterintuitive? Through funds raised from legal hunting, hunters contribute significantly to wildlife conservation efforts. Hunting has also become an important tool in the effort to control animal populations. Is hunting a humane way to maintain equilibrium and habitats, or are there better alternatives? Panelists include: Anthony Licata, Catherine Semcer, Wayne Pacelle, and Adam Roberts.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves. Even with many economic sanctions removed, if you want to visit Iran, you still need to know and follow the rules. Elaine Sciolino reveals what she learned about the public and private sides of Iran, since living in Tehran as a New York Times correspondent; Fred Plotkin explains why the varieties of coffee you'll find, will vary from country to country in Europe; and a guide from Sofia Bulgaria tells us how his country has been changing, since it joined the European Union.
5:00pm Selected Shorts Lost and Found “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Christine Baranski; “Havahart,” by Belle Boggs, performed by Merritt Wever; “Sticks,” by George Saunders, performed by Anthony Rapp. Guest host: David Sedaris.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera talks at The Kansas City Public Library's 2016 William H. Hickok Reading Series. The former Poet Laureate of California, who has over a dozen collections of poetry as well as books of fiction and children's literature, share stories from his childhood as the son of migrant workers. He also discusses his use of both English and Spanish and the inspiration he draws from Latin America. Our first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate reads from his 2015 book NOTES ON ASSEMBLAGE, and more.
7:00pm BBC World Service
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.
6:30pm CounterSpin with Janine Jackson. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
7:00pm Invisibilia The Problem with the Solution (repeat) We are naturally drawn to finding solutions. But are there ever problems we shouldn’t try to solve? Invisibilia co-host Lulu Miller visits a town in Belgium with a completely different approach to dealing with mental illness. Families in the town board people – strangers - with severe mental illnesses in their homes, sometimes for decades. And it works, because they are not looking to cure them. But it could it work in the United States?
8:00pm Latin Beat with Ray Cruz
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Says You! Taped in front of live audiences at various locations nationwide, 'Says You!' features six panelists divided into two teams of three that bluff, guess, and expound their way through this fast-paced program.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell Spirituality in Millennials “Spiritual but not Religious” is an increasingly popular tagline for the millennial generation – aged 18 to 34. Matthew Hedstrom (University of Virginia) believes consumer capitalism is responsible for this. His research suggests the millennial approach to spirituality is more about choosing and consuming different “religious products” – meditation, prayer, yoga, a belief in heaven – rather than participating in one organized religion. Also: The catastrophic decline of the bee population is a significant danger to our food supply. Lisa Horth (Old Dominion University) and her team think a new insect, called mason bees, might step in to help out.
7:00pm Freakonomics Radio with Stephen J. Dubner.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.
5:00pm On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. Engaging conversation, insightful commentaries, illuminating reports, and listener calls explore how information, news gathering, and the variety of media available today affect our culture.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features the most insightful news analysts anywhere.
7:00pm The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick.
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm B-Sides and Beyond with Jon Alan
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12:00am Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
9:00am The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper. It’s Serious Eats’ science superstar J. Kenji Lopez-Alt with his new book “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.” Jane and Michael Stern report on the High Desert Market Café in Bisbee, Arizona, and contributor David Leite talks to Mary Karr about the link between food and memory. Her latest book is “The Art of the Memoir.” Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
11:00am Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightning speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Bill Kurtis is official judge and scorekeeper.
12:00pm All Things Considered NPR's newsmagazine presenting breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.
1:00pm This American Life One Last Thing Before I Go Stories about what people say when they're in a big, final moment with someone they care deeply about, including a story about an unusual phone booth in Japan, and a story about estranged brothers in their 80s who consider making amends.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour True Stories Told Live
3:00pm The Dinner Party Download An hour-long celebration of culture, food, and conversation designed to help you dazzle your friends at this weekend's get-together. In every episode you'll 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.
4:00pm Brazilian Experience with Sandy Tsukiyama
6:00pm Bridging the Gap with Nicholas Yee
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
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12:00am Blues From the Basement with Jon Alan
2:00am Blues before Sunrise with Steve Cushing
5:00am Weekend Edition NPR's weekend morning newsmagazine covering hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor.
10:00am Krista Tippett On Being On Being opens up the animating questions at the center of human life: What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? We explore these questions in their richness and complexity in 21st-century lives and endeavors. We pursue wisdom and moral imagination as much as knowledge; we esteem nuance and poetry as much as fact.
11:00am New Dimensions with Justine Toms The Heart of the Wild As we visit public lands we can tune into a stillness that is outside of all the noise, distractions, and chaos in our everyday life. Terry Tempest Williams says, “They are places where we find a united state of humility . . . We are in this deeply fractured and divided country. I think if we could listen more to each other we would find a compassion that would surprise us.” Terry Tempest Williams is the author of “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.” Program #3587.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour Amateur Hour What does it take to survive, even thrive, when you're a complete amateur? This hour, TED speakers share stories of plunging - or being plunged - into new situations and emerging as experts.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm Bands of the 20s and 30s Big Bands emerged for dancing in the 1920s, but we’ll see how they changed over the next decade and a half.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Another fall rebroadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this one originally from October 2009. The boys of Wilco stop by to play "One By One" and "Passenger Side" and add a touch of rock'n'roll to the corner of Exchange and Wabasha, and a blast of bluegrass from singer Patty Loveless, including "The Bramble and the Rose" and "Prisoner's Tears." Plus: our Royal Academy of Radio Actors with a message from Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie featuring the revolutionary Thermal Thong, Dusty and Lefty head out of Minnesota just before winter descends, and Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band play "Rockin' Past Bedtime." In Lake Wobegon, the host recalls an autumn morning that changed him forever. (Beginning in October, musician extraordinaire Chris Thile will take over for Garrison Keillor as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion. Chris' wide range of musical taste, paired with his vast network of famous and talented friends, will draw new, diverse talent to public radio.)
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer Cosmic Saxophones: Charles Neville and Charles Lloyd (repeat) We give voice to the saxophone—an instrument revered by everyone from free jazzmen like Charles Lloyd to soul rocker Charles Neville, of the Neville Brothers. New Orleanian Charles Neville tells us how music carried him through his family, his neighborhood and a segregated South. Charles Lloyd, a real California dreamer, traces the roots of his modern, free style and musical collaborations back to the blues of Memphis. From the archives we hear words and music of saxophone honker Sam Butera (Louis Prima), bebopper Sonny Rollins and modernist Yusef Lateef; plus recordings from Sidney Bechet, Lester Young, Louis Jordan, John Coltrane and King Curtis.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs Newtown Live (2011)
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4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. This award-winning environmental news program delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg. The Prisoners Literature Project, an all-volunteer service based in Berkeley, California, packages and ships books to people who are incarcerated, as a humanitarian gesture and one that helps inmates prepare for re-entry into society.
7:00pm BBC World Service
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves. The Vikings were influenced by their own ancestors — even if some of their beliefs seemed a bit hard to fathom. Get a taste of Norse Mythology, and its complex view of the cosmos. Hear how the ruins of the Acropolis in Athens, remain a powerful symbol of civilized democracy, 25-hundred years since they were built. And learn about the courageous women Holly Morris filmed for a documentary series about "Adventure Divas."
5:00pm Selected Shorts Reader, I Married Him Excerpt “Jane Eyre” performed by Joanna Gleason “Reader, She Married Me” by Salley Vickers, performed by Chris Sarandon “The Orphan Exchange” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Tovah Feldshuh. Guest host: Cynthia Nixon.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air Since 1977, New Letters has been entertaining and informing audiences about contemporary writers and literature, focusing on a writer of poetry, fiction or essays, either in an intimate interview or in a public reading before an audience.
7:00pm BBC World Service
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.
6:30pm CounterSpin with Janine Jackson. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
7:00pm Invisibilia Frame of Reference (repeat) What shapes the way we perceive the world around us? A lot of it has to do with invisible frames of reference that filter our experiences and determine how we feel. Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin interview a woman who gets a glimpse of what she's been missing all her life – and then loses it. And they talk to Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj about which frame of reference is better – his or his dad's.
8:00pm Latin Beat with Ray Cruz
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Says You! Taped in front of live audiences at various locations nationwide, 'Says You!' features six panelists divided into two teams of three that bluff, guess, and expound their way through this fast-paced program.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell. Listeners call With Good Reason "the best way to make a long drive fly by" and "a much-needed forum." Each week scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, and business through lively discussion in a kitchen-table chat format. From the controversies over slave reparations and global warming, to the unique worlds of comic books and wine-making, With Good Reason is always suprising, challenging and fun.
7:00pm Freakonomics Radio with Stephen J. Dubner.
8:00pm Evening Jazz with Charles Husson
10:00pm Jazz After Hours with Jeff Hanley
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4:00pm Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.
5:00pm On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. Engaging conversation, insightful commentaries, illuminating reports, and listener calls explore how information, news gathering, and the variety of media available today affect our culture.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features the most insightful news analysts anywhere.
7:00pm The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick.
8:00pm The Real Deal with Seth Markow
10:00pm B-Sides and Beyond with Jon Alan