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Very interesting. Being from the UK, I've never listened to NPR before (aside from the Tiny Desk series), can anyone recommend some good weekly shows worth list

by zerovox 14y ago

Very interesting. Being from the UK, I've never listened to NPR before (aside from the Tiny Desk series), can anyone recommend some good weekly shows worth listening to?

rhplus 14y ago
For business and economics, go for Marketplace (daily), Freakonomics Radio and Planet Money. For pop-science and tech, maybe Radio Lab and Science Friday. Other popular shows are This American Life, All Things Considered, On The Media, Splendid Table, etc, etc. Directory: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=topic&id=-1 http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=to... Various show pages: http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.marketplace.org/ http://www.marketplace.org/ http://pri.org/ http://pri.org/
- zerovox 14y ago
  Thanks for the suggestions, I've subscribed to Freakonomics and Radiolab.
objclxt 14y ago
Depends what you're after. Some of the programming is quite similar to Radio 4 - the daily 'Morning Edition' is basically 'Today', 'All Things Considered' is 'PM', and then there's 'Marketplace' (no prizes for guessing what that's about!). Outside the daily news shows you've got: * Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, basically the US equivalent of Radio 4's News Quiz * Tech Nation, the title of which should be fairly self explanatory * Car Talk, a call-in show about cars. I am not a car person, and I enjoy it (the show stopped production a few months ago, but should be widely available online) * This American Life, does eclectic long-form journalism. * Science Friday, which is part of a daily call-in series Talk of the Nation, but all about science. If you're into science and tech, Radiolab (radiolab.org) is also well worth a listen, it's not technically NPR (there are several different public radio groups in the US), but it uses really innovative production and I wish Radio 4 would broadcast it here in the UK! Hopefully other people can add their own favorite shows...there are quite a few of them, and I've just highlighted a few that I find interesting as a Brit. I'm in the US a fair bit, and tend to listen to public radio where I can so these are all shows I've just stumbled across and enjoyed.
- zerovox 14y ago
  I love the News Quiz, so I'll give Wait Wait a go, and I'll give This American Life and Radiolab a go, they both look great
- vineel 14y ago
  This American Life isn't technically NPR either.
jorde 14y ago
Not a NPR show but 99% Invisible is excellent, short show about everyday design http://99percentinvisible.org/ http://99percentinvisible.org/
- zerovox 14y ago
  This sounds pretty good, thanks for the suggestion.
ahmadss 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of these two shows: On Point - Two hours daily that has lively conversations that cover everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens - http://onpoint.wbur.org/ http://onpoint.wbur.org/ To the Point - A news based one-hour daily program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day - http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp Cheers!

by zerovox 14y ago

Very interesting. Being from the UK, I've never listened to NPR before (aside from the Tiny Desk series), can anyone recommend some good weekly shows worth listening to?

rhplus 14y ago

For business and economics, go for Marketplace (daily), Freakonomics Radio and Planet Money. For pop-science and tech, maybe Radio Lab and Science Friday. Other popular shows are This American Life, All Things Considered, On The Media, Splendid Table, etc, etc. Directory: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=topic&id=-1 http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=to... Various show pages: http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.marketplace.org/ http://www.marketplace.org/ http://pri.org/ http://pri.org/

zerovox 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, I've subscribed to Freakonomics and Radiolab.

objclxt 14y ago

Depends what you're after. Some of the programming is quite similar to Radio 4 - the daily 'Morning Edition' is basically 'Today', 'All Things Considered' is 'PM', and then there's 'Marketplace' (no prizes for guessing what that's about!). Outside the daily news shows you've got: * Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, basically the US equivalent of Radio 4's News Quiz * Tech Nation, the title of which should be fairly self explanatory * Car Talk, a call-in show about cars. I am not a car person, and I enjoy it (the show stopped production a few months ago, but should be widely available online) * This American Life, does eclectic long-form journalism. * Science Friday, which is part of a daily call-in series Talk of the Nation, but all about science. If you're into science and tech, Radiolab (radiolab.org) is also well worth a listen, it's not technically NPR (there are several different public radio groups in the US), but it uses really innovative production and I wish Radio 4 would broadcast it here in the UK! Hopefully other people can add their own favorite shows...there are quite a few of them, and I've just highlighted a few that I find interesting as a Brit. I'm in the US a fair bit, and tend to listen to public radio where I can so these are all shows I've just stumbled across and enjoyed.

zerovox 14y ago
I love the News Quiz, so I'll give Wait Wait a go, and I'll give This American Life and Radiolab a go, they both look great
vineel 14y ago
This American Life isn't technically NPR either.

jorde 14y ago

Not a NPR show but 99% Invisible is excellent, short show about everyday design http://99percentinvisible.org/ http://99percentinvisible.org/

zerovox 14y ago
This sounds pretty good, thanks for the suggestion.

ahmadss 14y ago

I'm a huge fan of these two shows: On Point - Two hours daily that has lively conversations that cover everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens - http://onpoint.wbur.org/ http://onpoint.wbur.org/ To the Point - A news based one-hour daily program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day - http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp Cheers!