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 Welcome to the Public Radio thread! This thread is meant for discussion of any show that doesn't have its own thread currently. Right now only This American Life and Serial seem to have their own threads, please correct me if I'm wrong. Why didn't I just title this the NPR Thread? Great question. Let the Corporation for Public Broadcasting explain it to you... quote:What is the difference between CPB, PBS & NPR? Essentially, your local station will carry programming from a variety of providers. Some shows are produced by your station, such as the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC here in, uh, NYC. Others are provided by NPR (Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me) or Public Radio International (formerly This American Life). Stations buy programming from different providers to assemble their schedule. I will include some profiles of shows that I like - please contribute and discuss! I love hearing about local programming and hosts. Pretty much all of these shows are available as a free podcast.  https://www.onthemedia.org Pretty much what it says on the tin. Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield look at media happenings from the proceeding week. They do a lot of great interviews, and nobody shoots down a complete moron like Bob Garfield. His interview of one of the revenge porn idiots is pro-click: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/251306-is-anybody-down/  http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ Weekly panel show on news events that's ostensibly a competition among panelists for points, but is pretty much an excuse for them to be funny. Peter Sagal is always great, but the quality can obviously vary with the panelists. Everyone has one they can't stand - mine is Bobcat Goldthwait. Tremendous source of the best of dad humor.  http://www.npr.org/programs/ask-me-another/ Ok so goons tend not to like this one, but I was a contestant on it so I'm including it. Puzzles, word games, and trivia of varying difficulty taped in front of a live audience in Brooklyn. Whether you like or hate this one may depend on how much you like Jonathan Coulton.
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zakharov posted:Welcome to the Public Radio thread! This thread is meant for discussion of any show that doesn't have its own thread currently. Right now only This American Life and Serial seem to have their own threads, please correct me if I'm wrong. Radiolab has a thread somewhere. Or maybe had, I haven't seen it in a while.  http://www.freakonomics.com/ Freakonomics started as a book ten years ago and became a radio show five years ago. There was also a movie and more books, but the radio tends to hit most of that stuff as well so listening to the back catalogue can pretty much get your feet wet on everything they cover. The basic premise is that the show hits up economists for solutions or other viewpoints on a variety of (often) social issues. You might think that sounds a bit like sociology and you wouldn't be alone in that opinion, but it doesn't make it uninteresting. It is bi-weekly and hosted by Stephen Dubner (a journalist) who often talks to Steven Levitt (University of Chicago economics professor). Dubner is an effective host and Levitt doesn't mind expressing a minority opinion to get the conversation going. They have strayed from a regular format recently as they tried a game show and spent a couple of episodes asking somewhat notable people the same series of questions.  http://www.prairiehome.org/ The largest assembly of white people outside of a Klan rally, The Prairie Home Companion has been going for about 40 years. How much you like it probably depends on how much you like old time radio programs and how familiar you are with small towns in Minnesota. They get a variety of musical guests, Garrison Keillor tells you some outlandish tale about a quiet little town called Lake Wobegon, and there's some ads for fake products. There was also a movie made of this which is tragically bad.
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Feb 11, 2015 17:06
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Morning Edition and All Things Considered 4 life. I haven't heard Ask Me Another. PHC and (RIP) Car Talk is perfect relaxing weekend stuff as far as I'm concerned. TED Radio Hour rubs me the wrong way because the guy is such an Ira wannabe.
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Feb 12, 2015 05:29
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I miss Car Talk - the reruns just aren't the same. Fresh Air is also great whenever there's a good guest.
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Feb 12, 2015 05:38
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You don't like getting advice on how to fix your Dodge from beyond the grave? NPR has some good stuff they keep just to the web too, like the History Department http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/02/03/379052827/reviving-the-lost-art-of-log-rolling Sadly missing is this classic Canadian tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8 (I hope that isn't region locked)
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