# N.P.R. Lovers Unite and Share Your Favorite Programs !!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494 "2002-10-16T12:46:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/21 "2002-10-17T17:12:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LunaSea \* > \*\*WHRO/WHRV 89.5/90.3 Also a WHRO/WHRV fan. Classical music on one, everything else on the other - and I do listen to both. (You can even flip-flop between stations sometimes to avoid the pledge breaks during the annual fund-raisers.) My favorites: Sunday evenings on WHRV are devoted to folk music, including Thistle and Shamrock plus the locally-produced “In the Folk Tradition” ---
**Author:** ![WavyDavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3da27b/32.png) [@WavyDavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WavyDavy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/22 "2002-10-17T18:00:47Z")
WXPN/88.5 out of Philadelphia plus about 3 or four other simulcast/repeater stations in southeast Pennsylvania. They’re either another NPR station in Philly or a P.R.I. station, I not sure which. They produce **The World Cafe** hosted by David Dye. My alltime favorite show. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/23 "2002-10-17T18:48:12Z")
KQED, 88.5 in San Francisco Marketplace Fresh Air Pacific time My problemwith NPR is that I hate call in shows, so I’ll listen to the in-studio guests when they do that kind of thing, but 99.999% of the population do not have radio shows for a reason. All the umming and retarded questions make my head hurt after about 5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/24 "2002-10-17T19:03:43Z")
This American Life is generally brilliant; it’s one of my favorite series in any medium. Fresh Air is often wonderful, too, although it comes on while I’m at work, so I don’t hear it often. Morning Edition and All Things Considered are my primary news source – I listen to them on the way in and the way home from work every day. I haven’t figured out yet whether I love or hate Garrison Keillor. Depending on my mood, I find him hilarious or loathsome. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/25 "2002-10-17T19:39:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AskNott \* > \*\*We’re members of WBST 92.1 (Indiana Public Radio at Ball State University) and WFYI 90.1 (Indianapolis.) > \*\* I can kinda-sorta get both of those stations; was very happy when WFIU out of Bloomington put a transmitter (106.1) up here. Favorite programs: This American Life - have the [CD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I725/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/002-4858119-4341616) & am hoping for a Volume 2! Fresh Air - wish [On Stage & Screen - Volume 1](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966460510/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/002-4858119-4341616?v=glance) and [Fresh Air Laughs](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966460529/qid=1034883024/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4858119-4341616?v=glance) were available on CD! (Tho am seriously considering the [audible.com](http://audible.com) version) [Dick Estell - Radio Reader](http://fistook.com/DESTELL.HTML) - interesting selections and a WONDERFUL voice! ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/26 "2002-10-18T02:59:30Z")
90.7 KWMU, which is actually a college radio station University of Missouri-St Louis. Although the station is staffed by professional broadcasters. My favorite show would be **The Thistle & the Shamrock** , if KWMU carried it. I have only heard a couple of times, I keep meaning to try to find it on streaming radio. Overall I think NPR is great, I get a good portion of my news from the station. Sure they whine too much sometimes, and have too many stories about obscure blues musicians–but the news programs are balanced. I have contributed the last 2 years, and will continue. BTW **Cisco** \*\*[Diane Rehm](http://www.wamu.org/dr/book.html) \*\* is probably around 60, but suffers from a rare neurological disorder. I enjoy Marketplace (PRI production), Morning Edition and ATC and Car Talk. I am not a fan of Prarie Home Companion, nor most of the weekend programs. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/27 "2002-10-18T08:04:51Z")
89.9 KCRW Los Angeles. I know that it carries alot of L.A. - originated programming. We get and I love ATC and ME, but my other two favorites are the absolutely stellar \* Morning Becomes Eclectic, \* a music program which almost always features live guests, (for those who are into interesting, unusual, and wonderful music, you can listen online: [http://www.kcrw.org/grid/](http://www.kcrw.org/grid/)) and \* Left, Right and Center, \* a political program. There used to also be aextraordinarily strange and fascinating performer by the name of Joe Frank who had his own show. They are archived online here: [http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?tmplt\_type=program&show\_code=jf](http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?tmplt_type=program&show_code=jf) He was sort of a radio performance artist/monologist/short story writer. Deeply strange and strangely riveting. And I pretty much can’t stand Terry Gross, even though she does have a voice made for radio… “This is…Fresh Air”. Also a great title. The promo copy for Joe Frank: Joe Frank: When endowed with profound religious feeling, your skin becomes transparent and your blood begins to turn a thin watery hue until the light of the sun streaming in the window passes entirely through you. At last, having evolved into pure spiritual energy, nothing remains of your existence but a small pile of dirty underwear, damp socks, rumpled garments, a driver’s license, credit cards and perhaps a small nail clipper. This is what happens when you achieve oneness with the air, with the sky, with the whole world and everything in it. No longer tormented by nagging questions such as the conundrum of imploding ethical systems as expressed in post-war German soup recipes, you feel a sense of ecstatic exhilaration. It is this condition of bliss that Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There will attempt to elicit in its listeners. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/28 "2002-10-18T15:03:10Z")
Oh, this is SO great !!! Keep 'em coming. I’m going to hijack my own thread here. Seems to me that most of us dearly wish we could do some time-shifting so we did not miss our favorite programs. You can set a VCR to record when you are not home, does such a device exist for a cassette recorder/stereo? And, if you get your audio feeds by Internet, can one set a computer up with software to record shows and convert them to MP3 or somesuch? \*\*\*\*\*\* BIG DISCLAIMER\*\*\*\*\*\* I am in NO WAY advocating stealing, duplicating or distributing copywrighted materials. I’m only inquiring as to a way to record for personal home use only !!! Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/29 "2002-10-18T15:06:49Z")
[/quote] "BTW Cisco Diane Rehm is probably around 60, but suffers from a rare neurological disorder. " [/quote] Yeah being a c$%^. I loathe her even though her show is good. It is always best when she is away and the guest hosts fill in. Good content but her personality and voice are so bad that I can’t stand listening to it when she is on. I particularly like _Stained Glass Bluegrass_, _Bluegrass Overnight_, _Science Friday_ (when I can catch it), _All Things Considered_, and the fun shows like Car Talk and Wait Wait Don’t tell me on the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/30 "2002-10-18T15:52:25Z")
KERA 90.1 locally WBUR Boston and WUOM University of Michigan, on the computer (especially during pledge drives- after I’ve already donated, of course) I Pretty much listen all day. I really like _Morning Edition_ and _All Things Considered_. I listen to Diane Rheem on Friday because I like the Friday round up. I also like _Science Friday_ and _Wait Wait…_ Which I happen to think is one of the funniest shows in any medium next to _The Daily Show_ Also we have a local guy, Glenn Mitchell, who does a show called _Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know_ Fridays noon CT which folks on this board would love. It’s a call in show where people ask question, and other listeners answer. It makes me feel superior. Basically, I have it on all day. In my opinion, no one covered 9/11 better than NPR. Support you local station! ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/31 "2002-10-18T16:01:39Z")
Oh I also detest Kojo Nambi no matter how fun his name is to say. Detest is a bit of a strong word. His show is about as fun and interesting as listening to paint dry and grass grow. You know, when watching it gets to boring you have to listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/32 "2002-10-19T01:26:13Z")
It looks like no one has mentioned Hearts of Space. So I’ll mention that!. Some of the music they air is really out of this world (pun not intended). The other show I catch on streaming audio through the web (as my station doesn’t carry it) is Says You!. Them folks are funny. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/33 "2002-10-19T01:48:38Z")
Here in the DC area, we have WETA and WAMU. Jean Cochran is a friend and neighbor of my sister’s, and is one of the coolest Washington insiders I’ve ever met! ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/34 "2002-10-19T05:26:40Z")
WXPN is in fact a PRI station and I thank god every day that I have the oportunity to listen to World Cafe every weekday. In this wasteland of Alternative and Teeny Bopper Top 40 stations it’s nice to listen to a station that plays the likes of Alejandro Escavado, Marah and Lucinda Williams. Though I will admit public radio can be dull if you catch it at the wrong times, but it’s much better then suffering through Creed 7 times an hour. As for Mountain Stage, I find it to be amazing one day and an absolute bore the next. XPN does have an amazing blues show on Saturday nights. A national treasure if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/35 "2002-10-19T10:16:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by litost \* > The other show I catch on streaming audio through the web (as my station doesn’t carry it) is Says You!. Them folks are funny. I’m surprised there aren’t more _Says You!_ fans here (hello, **stargazer** ), I would think that show would be a natural for smart, funny dopers. Remember, every week, more radios are tuned to _Says You!_ than any other appliance. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/36 "2002-10-21T13:37:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\*Oh, this is SO great !!! Keep 'em coming. I’m going to hijack my own thread here. Seems to me that most of us dearly wish we could do some time-shifting so we did not miss our favorite programs. > > You can set a VCR to record when you are not home, does such a device exist for a cassette recorder/stereo? And, if you get your audio feeds by Internet, can one set a computer up with software to record shows and convert them to MP3 or somesuch? > > \*\*\*\*\*\* BIG DISCLAIMER\*\*\*\*\*\* I am in NO WAY advocating stealing, duplicating or distributing copywrighted materials. I’m only inquiring as to a way to record for personal home use only !!! > > Thoughts? \*\* Why not just record the radio on your VCR and use the timer on that. You can get 6 hours on a tape. I suppose you could just leave your computer on with the audio out going to the VCR. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/37 "2002-10-21T13:52:23Z")
KUAR 89.1 mHz. Morning Edition and various and sundry programs. Why do so many of these guys sound like weenies? Do they all have adnoids? Is it some New England allergy? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/38 "2002-10-25T13:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \* > \*\* Wisconsin Radio use to have a program called, I think, North Country Notebook put together by George Voukellic (Spelling?) That was just plain fun. The writer- announcer died or retired some years ago but I’d like to see them re-run the show. \*\* George Vukelic (I think that’s the spelling) died a good 8-10 years ago, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/39 "2002-10-25T20:49:56Z")
I don’t think the stations here carry Says You. I listen to WEKU at Eastern Kentucky University and sometimes WUKY at the University of Kentucky. Both have programming I like. I’ve listened to Morning Edition since it went on the air (I think) and All Things Considered since college; 18 years! I wouldn’t know what to do with myself without Bob Edwards (a fellow Kentuckian) to start my day. I got my first dose of David Sedaris on NPR, and listened to, rather than watched, the fall of the Berlin wall. Nearly every major news event and pop-culture emergence has been delivered to be via NPR. And if I got wind of it some other way (see other threads for my confessions of all-day CNN-watching), I hurry to the radio to listen. I’m dying to call Click & Clack and tell them all about my Haunted Windstar. It would be perfect for this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494/40 "2002-10-25T22:06:59Z")
KUCV, 91.1 part of the [Nebraska Public Radio Network](http://www.nprn.org/) . Morning Edition, ATC, WaitWait, Car Talk, This American Life, PHC. Big Band Spotlight, which is (I think) locally produced. An excellent local news/feature segment during ATC. What’s not to like? -mdf [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-p-r-lovers-unite-and-share-your-favorite-programs/132494.md?page=3)