HPR-2 Program Listings

Weekdays 
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 VandercookFor, 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 Talk of the Nation   Monday through Thursday, host Neal Conan invites callers to discuss areas of topical interest, including politics and public service, education, religion, music, and healthcare. Talk of the Nation goes behind the headlines with decision-makers, authors, thinkers, artists, and listeners around the world, who become part of the conversation by calling 1-800-989-TALK. 
9:00am Friday Talk of the Nation 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. 
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 (see below for daily programming)
7:00pm BBC World Service
8:00pm-10:00pm (Monday-Thursday) Jazz
8:00pm-10:00pm (Friday) The Real Deal
 with Seth Markow
10:00pm-Midnight (Monday-Thursday) Echoes
10:00pm (Friday) Jazz

1 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours
 with Jim Wilke
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 learn some unconventional grilling techniques from Adam Perry Lang, author of “Charred and Scruffed.” Travel and Leisure Magazine’s Peter Jon Lindberg reports on the affordable food scene in Hawai’i, and food scientist Harold McGee brings us some surprising news on the best way to thaw frozen meat. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Are You Sure?  How do we know what we know? What makes us certain of reality? We take a look at how doubt and certainty work in the brain, and even ask questions about the existence of God. And we go on a bicycle trip across the USA with Lulu Miller, who meets a geologist trying to bike away his doubts.
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. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine. NOT MY JOB GUEST: Deepak Chopra, author and physician PANELISTS: Roy Blount, Jr., Amy Dickinson, Ken Jennings.
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  When Patients Attack-Part Two!  About two years ago, we did a program about a mysterious business in Texas that buys up patents and then threatens other companies with lawsuits for violating those patents. A lot of stuff has happened since then, including some companies fighting back against this mysterious business. In the process, they've revealed all sorts of secrets about who's behind it.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  Goats, Cops, and Haircuts  A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; and novelist/screenwriter Richard Price ("Clockers," "Lush Life," "The Wire") gets a lesson in interrogation in the back of a NYC cop car. Hosted by The Moth's founder, George Dawes Green.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  With his Flecktones, Béla Fleck has expanded the banjo repertoire far beyond bluegrass and folk music, and is a regular collaborator with jazz players including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Jean-Luc Ponty. On this session, Fleck joins Marian and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for trio renditions of “In Walked Bud,” “All The Things You Are,” and “Polka Dots and Moonbeams.”
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

2 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  Inner Life at Work  Tami Simon is founder and CEO of Sounds True, the leading publisher of spoken word spiritual teachings in the U.S. Sounds True originally specialized in audio tapes, often of spiritual teachings. Now it is also a publisher with a wide range of subjects and authors, including works by the globally popular Eckhart Tolle and Fred Kofmans emerging classic, Conscious Business. She has worked intentionally across the years to create a business culture that is effective while inviting employees to bring their whole selves to work. She does this by welcoming dogs at work, having a full kitchen for cooking meals, and taking a minute of silence before business meetings.
11:00am New Dimensions 
The Quakers, Forging America’s Identity  Quakers, also known as “the Society of Friends”, have been part of American history for over 300 years. America’s whole moral fabric has been affected by their commitment to peace and societal equity. Hear Susan Sachs Goldman talk about how they have inspired fundamental characteristics such as: democracy, egalitarianism, religious toleration, and women’s rights.
12:00pm
TED Radio Hour  The Violence Within Us (repeat)  Violence and brutality are grim realities of life. So why are some people violent, and others arent? Are some of us born that way, or can anyone be pushed into committing acts of cruelty? What would it take for an ordinary person to become violent? TED speakers explore the sinister side of human nature, and whether were all capable of violence.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser 
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. A live broadcast performance from the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with special guests, folksinger Ellis and globetrotting pianist Radoslav Lorkovic. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Kenni Holmen and Steve Strand sit in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on saxophone and trumpet, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  John Sebastian & Bonsoir Catin (repeat)  We travel from the Village to the dancehall. John Sebastian talks about his childhood in Greenwich Village, encounters with blues greats Mississippi John Hurt and Lighting Hopkins, and the musical stew he created with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Then, a conversation with Kristi Guillory and Christine Balfa of the cajun band Bonsoir Catin about carrying on their musical heritage for the next generation.
10:00pm Full Nelson
 with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  New Reissues, Compilations and Such

3 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth
with Steve Curwood  Africa's Congo Basin is rich in natural resources. The region boasts unique biodiversity and the worlds second largest tropical forest. But many of the people are poor and some argue it's time the region's countries make money from their carbon-rich trees. Join award-winning correspondent Alex Chadwick as he travels to Central Africa to examine the high stakes game of protecting the forest.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak. 
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  With the tight economy, increased middle class anxiety, home foreclosures and lengthening lines at soup kitchens throughout the United States, more and more Americans are relying on the good will of their neighbors, who are motivated to offer their time and money.

4 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel
with Rick Steves.  Rick interviews a guide to the street markets of Paris, where souvenir shopping can be a destination in itself.  Hear how the beer in Belgium is so good, it's worth a special trip.  Also, learn about the mysteries and history you can find in the caves of Slovenia.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  About Time  “The History of Everything Including You” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick; “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” by Paul Broks, performed by Jane Curtin; “Getting Closer” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Isaiah Sheffer. Guest host: Jane Curtin.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air  Taiwanese-American poet Shin Yu Pai was born in Illinois, raised in California, schooled in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Chicago; she has lived in Texas, Arkansas and now Washington State, in big cities and small towns, yet people still think of her as a foreigner. She discusses how her poetry's improved with her wanderlust and reads from her 2010 book "Adamantine" and her earlier collected works "Sightings," in which she not only composed the poetry but also collaborated with designer, Rolando Murillo, on the hand carved cover art.

5 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation
with Dr. Moira Gunn.  A talk with George Church, Harvard Medical School Genetics professor, and author of “ReGenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.” Then, on BioTech Nation, Colin Hill, Chairman & CEO of GNS Healthcare, discusses big yields from the data exhaust of the healthcare system - what we can learn if we look at everyone’s medical records  all together.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café 
with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa. 
6:30pm CounterSpin  Did Barack Obama's National Defense University speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? That depended on who was doing the listening. For most corporate media, Obama made a sharp turn, speaking of more limited drone killing policies, and discussing the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. But many civil liberties and international law experts heard something very different. We'll talk with Pardiss Kebree-aye of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Also. the internet has either destroyed the traditional media business or it's brought us a new era of vibrant, more democratic media. Those are the two sides in the debate over the web, but author and professor Bob McChesney argues in his new book "Digital Disconnect" that to understand the internet you have to understand capitalism. He'll join us to explain.

6 THURSDAY
4:00pm My Word  
Now known all over the English-speaking world, My Word! has been variously described as "...a witty enquiry into the language", "...a literary riot", "...a mixture of erudition and fun", "...a feast of ingenuity and wit", and "...a provocative play on words." Its regular team of word-spinners consists of four professional writers and wits--each famous in his or her own field. 
4:30pm 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  First in the Family  Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these students, entering academia can feel like moving to a foreign land. Lee Ward (James Madison University), author of First Generation College Students, says colleges should embrace these students. Also featured: Most writing teachers correct nonstandard sentences like “My brother and me drives the same truck.” But Amy Clark (University of Virginia’s College at Wise) believes it’s important for her Appalachian students to hold onto to their home voices. Amy is coeditor of a new book, called “Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community.”

7 FRIDAY
4:00pm Inside Europe  
From Deutsche Welle Radio, this weekly program provides listeners with the latest developments in Europe as a network of staff and freelance correspondents look beyond the headlines to provide analysis, background and color to make the European story relevant for American listeners. 
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  Matt Miller (Washington Post) moderates from the Center. On the Left, Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief, TruthDig-dot-com).  Rich Lowry (National Review) is on the Right. Special guest Melody Barnes (former director of the Domestic Policy Council for Obama) joins us.  National Security Agency programs are collecting data about citizens' daily communications. Is there any privacy left? Does it matter? There's outrage from our Left, and Schadenfreude from our Right. What is worse -- U.S. surveillance of our online movements, or Google and Facebook monitoring our behavior? Does it amount to a totalitarian society? President Obama begins a two-day summit with the president of China, Xi Jinping. How much can we object to China's own procedures?

8 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours
 with Jim Wilke
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 take a look at the latest trend in sustainable meat – goat - with Chef Jesse Griffiths, author of “Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish.” The Sterns are at Big W’s Roadside BBQ in Wingdale, NY and we talk to Bruce Feiler, author of “The Secrets Of Happy Families,” about the surprising news on what is really important about family dinner. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Detective Stories  Forensics, archeology, genealogy, and genetics are all devoted to figuring out what really happened, and digging up the past leads to some very unexpected finds. We begin at a trash dump in Egypt, where we find Jesus, Satan, sissies, and porn. Next, a goat on a cow leads us to hundreds of old letters scattered on the side of Route 101. And finally, a blood-sampling tour of Asia reveals a prolific baby-maker...and potentially a world conqueror.
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. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine.  OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Bill Kurtis, filling in for Carl Kasell.  NOT MY JOB GUEST: Nik Wallenda, tight rope walker.  PANELISTS: P.J. O'Rourke, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett.
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  Invisible Made Visible  The radio version of an episode we did live on stage and beamed to movie theaters all over the country. David Sedaris, Tig Notaro and Ryan Knighton perform stories. Plus the late David Rakoff, in his final performance on the show. The other half of the two-hour performance was visual, including dancers, animation, and a short film.
You can download video of the entire show:  http://live.thisamericanlife.org
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour 
A young woman in Southern California describes her unconventional upbringing with a very free-spirited mother; a door-to-door bible salesman, circa 1953, shares sales tactics;  an actor from the golden age of Hollywood reaches out from beyond the grave; and a little boy gets through a hospital stay by pretending he’s a superhero. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Jenifer Hixson.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  We remember composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer. In a long career, the Grammy-winning arranger worked with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Paul McCartney, and Prince. On this 2001 session, Fischer performs “Isfahan” and “Bloodcount,” and McPartland performs his “Pensativa.”
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

9 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  Uncovering the Codes for Reality  James Gates is the Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland in College Park. He serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 2013, he was awarded the National Medal of Science and elected to the National Academy of Sciences. As he explains to Krista, string theory stretches our imaginations about the nature of reality - and leads to the question, Are we in the matrix? Also, how failure makes us more complete, and imagination makes us more knowledgeable.
11:00am New Dimensions  The Power of Stories to Heal  (repeat) We may be coming to the point where our ability to save or destroy ourselves largely depends on the stories we tell each other. Terry Laszlo-Gopadze found mentors who guided her on a path of healing and growth by the stories they told of spiritual power and healing. Let the power of storytelling inspire our own commitment of meaningful action. She’s the editor of The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire.
12:00pm
TED Radio HourFraming the Story  Stories ignite our imagination, let us leap over cultural walls and cross the barriers of time. Stories affirm who we are, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and others, real or imagined. Stories help us make meaning of our lives. In this hour, TED speakers explore the art of storytelling -- and how good stories have the power to transform our perceptions of the world.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  Generational Conversation  If songs define each generation and separate one from the other, how can songs ever bridge the gap?
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.  We head West and visit the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, with special guests, singer and songwriter Colin Hay, humorist Paula Poundstone, America's "Acting President" Martin Sheen, comedienne Lily Tomlin, and singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Kenni Holmen and Steve Strand join The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?: Dan Hicks and Commander Cody (repeat)  Join us for two hours of wry humor, outlandish puns and gonzo attitude when we sit down with two high-flying musicians: Dan Hicks and Commander Cody. Mr. Hicks spins tales of sartorial genius and fine times in the '60s as a ragtime-country-cowboy-jazz musician in San Francisco. And direct from the Adirondacks, we'll spend time with the artist and bandleader Commander Cody to hear about his musical travels and travails with the Lost Planet Airmen, across the country and through space with stops in Texas, of course.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  David Davis and the Warrior River Boys Live

10 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth
with Steve Curwood. In a move that gives a boost to opponents of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline across the US, the Canadian province of British Columbia has nixed a plan to build an oil export route across its pristine territory. Also, taking a swim in the once filthy Charles River at Boston, now that decades of cleanup efforts have finally paid off.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.  Genetics can predetermine a lot of things about our health, but how necessary is genetic testing for things like breast cancer, heart disease, and overall health? Dr. Thomas Slavin is in the studio to tell us more about how a simple blood test might just be able to predict our health future.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  The inspiring tale of a woman who felt called to help hungry people in New Jersey, initially by distributing food from her car and now, thirty-eight years later, her foodbank employs 200, is the size of 7 football fields and last year fed more than 900,000 people.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance group called Underworld. But he's launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales.

11 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel
with Rick Steves.  Get inspired to take a classic American road trip along the Lincoln Trail, from Springfield, Illinois to Gettysburg and the Potomac. We'll also hear about the special travel guide that African-Americans relied on in the mid-20th century to find a welcome on the road. Plus, TV travel host Samantha Brown shares how to enjoy your next long flight overseas.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Rites of Passage  Guest Host Jane Curtin  “The Grid” by Rick Moody, performed by Josh Radnor; “Anaconda” by Martha McPhee, performed by Lindsay Crouse.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air 
Valzhyna Mort  In part one of this 2012 interview, the Belarusian poet discusses her work, in particular her book, "Factory Of Tears."  She admits that her poems are never truly finished and discusses how translating the work from Belarusian, with the help of husband and wife team, the Puliter Prize winning poet Franz Wright and and Elizabeth Oehlkers-Wright, allowed her to both continue editing and find new meaning in her work. Mort reads from the 2008 "Factory Of Tears" in both English and Belarusian and introduces her 2011 book "Collected Body" with the transitional poem "For Grandmother."
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto  Northern Lights  We explore the chilled world of music from Scandinavia with electronic sounds from Norway, dream pop from Denmark, downtempo electronics from Sweden and ambient chamber music from Iceland.

12 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation
with Dr. Moira Gunn.  A talk with Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, musician, and author of "Who Owns the Future?" Then on BioTech Nation, Gene Williams, chairman & CEO of DART Therapeutics, talks about the challenge of Duschene Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach that may offer real hope.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa. 
6:30pm CounterSpin  As Bradley Manning's court martial trial gets underway, journalists face real obstacles in trying to report on it, and they should be facing the constitutional issues the case raises. We'll be joined by Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and U.S. attorney for Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Also, are parents keeping their kids from learning how to read, so they can get a disability check from the state? The claim has come from some high places in elite media which, you won't be surprised to learn, doesn't make it true. We'll speak with author and journalist Neil deMause about this not-so-new media canard.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  Tina Malia is a self-professed hippie chick. She also possesses a remarkable voice honed in her singer-songwriter music, Kirtan chanting and collaborations with electronica artist Bass Nectar. She talks about the darker, electronic dimensions of her new CD, The Lost Frontier.

13 THURSDAY
4:00pm My Word  
Now known all over the English-speaking world, My Word! has been variously described as "...a witty enquiry into the language", "...a literary riot", "...a mixture of erudition and fun", "...a feast of ingenuity and wit", and "...a provocative play on words." Its regular team of word-spinners consists of four professional writers and wits--each famous in his or her own field. 
4:30pm 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. This week's show was recorded November 11, 2011 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA, and features special guest Garland Waller, and musical performers The Blue 4 Trio.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.  In a recorded program, we go back to the movies at the Maui Film Festival and profile five filmmakers whose documentaries chronicle stories with political overtones and public policy impact: Blis DeVault's “Sanctity of Sanctuary”; Teri Teco's “Fishing Pono"; Justin La Pera's “Isolated”; Paul Taublieb's “Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau” and Destin Daniel Cretton's “Short Term 12.”
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell  The Art of Science  Sometimes all it takes to get kids excited about science is a bag full of eyeballs. Robert Tai (University of Virginia) has spent years studying when and why kids fall in love with science. Henry Alan Rowe (Norfolk State University) uses fire and static electricity to draw students into chemistry. Plus: Science class matters even for kids who grow up to be writers or bankers. Tina Grotzer (Harvard University) explains how science can help kids understand the causes of what’s going on around them.
10:00pm
Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  New music from world flute player Stephen DeRuby, whose new album is called Awakening. We'll also hear from Daft Punks Random Access Memories. It's a dance album, but even dancers have to chill.

14 FRIDAY
4:00pm Inside Europe  
From Deutsche Welle Radio, this weekly program provides listeners with the latest developments in Europe as a network of staff and freelance correspondents look beyond the headlines to provide analysis, background and color to make the European story relevant for American listeners. 
5:00pm On the Media  with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone.  We delve into the details of the government surveillance program and what we really know about how PRISM works. And, as more information comes out about leaker Edward Snowden, the media turns from the value of his leaks to the value of his character.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center  Matt Miller (Washington Post) moderates from the Center. On the Left, Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief, TruthDig-dot-com). Rich Lowry (National Review, author of “Lincoln Unbound”) is on the Right.  The Obama administration confirmed that Syria has used chemical weapons and announced the US will send arms to rebel fighters. The move went along with former President Clinton's recent warnings that Obama risked looking like “a total fool” if he behaved too cautiously in the region. The administration's plan drew criticism from both sides, including James Traub of Foreign Policy. Then, is Edward Snowden a laudable whistleblower or a threat to our security? Matt Miller believes the latter. It all depends on your position on the newly-coined Scheer O'Meter. Immigration reform finally hits the Senate. And Rich Lowry's new book, “Lincoln Unbound,” finally hits the shelves.

15 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours
 with Jim Wilke
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’re going into the kitchen of Daniel in NYC for another installment of  Key 3 with legendary chef Daniel Boulud. We take on summer baking with Alice Medrich, author of “Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts,” and we play Stump the Cook with Stumpmaster Frank De Caro, author of “The Dead Celebrity Cookbook.” Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Animal Minds  When we gaze into the eyes of a wild animal, or even a beloved pet, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they're experiencing something close to human emotions? Or is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN'T feeling something like that? We get the story of a rescued whale that may have found a way to say thanks, ask whether dogs feel guilt, and wonder if a successful predator may have fallen in love with a photographer.
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. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine.   OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Bill Kurtis, filling in for Carl Kasell.   NOT MY JOB GUEST: Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut.   PANELISTS: Luke Burbank, Faith Salie, Bobcat Goldthwait.
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  This Week  We return to one of our favorite themes: This Week! All of the stories in the show are things that have taken place in the last seven days. We've got our own take on the big, national stories of the week but we also turn a searchlight across America and find the smaller, more personal and more spectacular stories that most of us never hear.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  Josh Axelrad - A blackjack player faces his demons; Daisy Rosario - A young woman meets her brother for the first time at their father's funeral; Colin Quinn - Is hired to do comedy at Robert Deniro's birthday party...and bombs; Hosted by comic, author and Moth regular, Mike Birbiglia.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
  Singer Janis Siegel is one quarter of the jazz super-group, The Manhattan Transfer. Throughout the thirty years spent with this musical institution, she’s also released her own recordings featuring hip, seductive arrangements of standards as well as newer works. Along with pianist and accordion player Gil Goldstein, she performs Tad Dameron’s “Whatever Possessed Me” and Annie Lennox’s “A Thousand Beautiful Things.”
4:00pm Brazilian Experience 
with Sandy Tsukiyama  Father's Day
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

16 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  Sarah Kay's Way with Words  The twenty-four-year-old spoken word poet has become a role model for teenagers around the world. She believes that listening is just as important as speaking, and explains to Krista how she works with words to make connections - inside people and between them.
11:00am New Dimensions  Dealing with Chronic Pain  Having had two spinal surgeries and dealing with his own chronic pain issues. Dr. David Hanscom describes three causes of pain: structural, soft tissue, and fired up neurological brain pathways. He’s developed a program that lessens the need for spinal surgery. It offers a way to cope with pain and the anxiety, depression and anger that accompany it. He’s the author of “Back in Control: A Spine’s Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain.
12:00pm
TED Radio Hour  What Is Beauty?  (repeat)  Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict. In this hour, TED speakers conjure up beauty both ancient and modern, and bring out ideas about why humans are hardwired to crave and respond to beauty.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  Johnny Burke, Part 1  The first of two shows devoted to lyricist Johnny Burke, who knew how to write hits.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.  From the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, Washington, it's a live broadcast performance with special guests, banjo-making husband-and-wife duo Pharis and Jason Romero, and pianist Fred Kronacher. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
8:00pm American Routes
 with Nick Spitzer  La La Brooks & Frankie Ford  (repeat)  We're rocking and rolling with two icons of 60s pop. First, it's the voice behind some of the most well-known songs from the girl group era: La La Brooks, of the Crystals. La La sang the lead on the classic hit "Da Doo Ron Ron" when she was just a teenager! She shares stories of her time singing for Phil Spector, and starring on Broadway. We’ll also visit with Gretna, Louisiana’s Frankie Ford, whose early 60’s hit “Sea Cruise” set the New Orleans R&B scene sailing on the charts.
10:00pm Full Nelson
 with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  December 1972 - February 1973

17 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth
with Steve Curwood. Almost a hundred years ago, the first ship sailed through the Panama canal, but many favored an alternate route through Nicaragua. Now the government in Managua has inked a deal with a Chinese company to construct a Nicaraguan canal to join the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Also - tearing down a dam on the Elwha river has created a deluge of sediment and rich new habitat for fish.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak  The Pancreas  When things go wrong with this tiny organ, major havoc can occur. Diabetes, digestive problems, and even cancer are all serious problems that have few warning signs. Dr. Robert Wong will be in the studio to discuss the latest in diagnosis and treatment for pancreatic disease.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  Bay Area physician and Univ. of California medical professor Martin Rossman, author of 'The Worry Solution', describes ways to distinguish between what we can change and what we must learn to accept.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto  Living Room Concert: Ludovico Einaudi  The acclaimed Italian pianist comes to Echoes with his electro-acoustic ensemble and plays the sometimes haunting, sometimes exuberant themes of his latest album, "In A Time Lapse."

18 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel
with Rick Steves.  We'll explore the historical riches of Potsdam, Germany, and we'll hear how Athens, Greece has grown into a visitor-friendly destination, complete with a new Acropolis museum. We'll also get a dispatch from adventure cyclist Willie Weir from his favorite square in Madrid, and we'll open the phones for your nominations for a favorite city to explore.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Complicated Relationships  Guest Host Jane Curtin “Scenes from a Life” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Cynthia Nixon; “The Vow” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Amber Tamblyn; “People Are Becoming Clouds” by Joe Meno, performed by Kirsten Vangsness; “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, performed by Jane Curtin.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air 
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts also reads from his 2012 novel, "Freeman," about former slaves who return to the south after the Civil War in search of their scattered families.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  We talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and John Barry songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1967.

19 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation
with Dr. Moira Gunn. 
5:00pm Bytemarks Café 
with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.  We talk to the first cohort of companies graduating from the Blue Startup accelerator program. We’ll find out what they learned, how they plan to succeed, and what the next steps are toward going commercial.
6:30pm CounterSpin  Kathleen McClellan on Edward Snowden and Ralph Nader on 'Told You So.'
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  New music from Downtempo electronic denizens, The Boards of Canada, from their highly anticipated and hyped 'Tomorrow's Harvest' and the latest by Sigur Ros off their new album Kveikur (Candlewick).

20 THURSDAY
4:00pm My Word  
Now known all over the English-speaking world, My Word! has been variously described as "...a witty enquiry into the language", "...a literary riot", "...a mixture of erudition and fun", "...a feast of ingenuity and wit", and "...a provocative play on words." Its regular team of word-spinners consists of four professional writers and wits--each famous in his or her own field. 
4:30pm 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. This week's show was recorded November 11, 2011 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA, with special guest Garland Waller, and musical performers The Blue 4 Trio.
5:00pm Town Square with Beth-Ann Kozlovich.  How does Hawai'i recover food waste? It's the flip side of sustainability and we'll talk about the Food Recovery Challenge  participants  honored this week and Food Recovery and Waste Reduction Efforts by the City and County of Honolulu, The Greenhouse Hawaii, and Aloha Harvest.
6:30pm
With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell  The Kids Are Alright  Have more children, don’t stress out about parenting, and spend less time on activities that you and your children don’t enjoy. This is the advice of Bryan Caplan (George Mason University) author of the new book “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think.” And: Children love borrowing books from the library. They also love playing with toys. So why don’t we have toy libraries? Julie Ozanne (Virginia Tech) studies toy libraries in Europe and New Zealand and found that toy libraries offer multiple benefits for children, their parents, and their communities. Later in the show: Historians have long held that children of 17th and 18th century Europe were thought of as incomplete adults who were not yet worthy of love or compassion. But historian Michael Galgano (James Madison University) says children of this time were actually celebrated and loved. Also featured: Elementary school teachers may want to encourage a noisier classroom this fall. Adam Winsler’s (George Mason University) recent research shows that 5-year-olds perform better on motor tasks when they talk to themselves out loud than when they are silent. And: Infants come into the world equipped with an enormous capacity to trust, which is essential to rapid learning. Vikran Jaswal (University of Virginia) says part of the challenge of childhood is learning when to question.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto.  It’s the longest day of the year and we have the music to welcome in summer.

21 FRIDAY
4:00pm Inside Europe  
From Deutsche Welle Radio, this weekly program provides listeners with the latest developments in Europe as a network of staff and freelance correspondents look beyond the headlines to provide analysis, background and color to make the European story relevant for American listeners. 
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 four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere.

22 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours
 with Jim Wilke
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’re taking our Weber to a more primal state this week with Tim Byres, author of “Smoke: New Firewood Cooking,” we learn to hit the flower beds for our culinary needs with Miche Bacher, author of “Cooking With Flowers: Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender and Other Edible Flowers,” and we get a recipe for Japan’s delicious pancake, okonomiyaki, from The Washington Post’s food columnist David Hagedorn. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab 
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. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine. 
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 One Thing You're Not Supposed to Do 
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  Mike Birbiglia ("Sleepwalk with Me") goes through a breakup on a remote island, two women meet by chance on a dark street and share secrets, a father admits he was not quite ready for a second child, and a live calf shows up for Thanksgiving dinner. Some stories are emotionally intense and not for children.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Trumpeter, pianist, and composer Arturo Sandoval is one of Cuba’s best known musical exports. He’s won multiple Grammys, including one for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2013, and his life inspired the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy García. He performs his original tunes “Surena” and “Romantico” as well as Johnny Green’s “Body and Soul.”
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

23 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 
11:00am New Dimensions 
Dialogue: A Habit of the Heart  What often passes for dialogue these days is negotiation or debate. However, John Backman feels the true aim of dialogue is mutual understanding rather than trying to convince another to see things the way we see them. He encourages us to practice true dialogue wherever we are: conversing with a stranger on a bus or at a gathering with extended family over dinner. He’s the author of “Why Can’t We Talk? Christian Wisdom on Dialogue as a Habit of the Heart.”
12:00pm
TED Radio Hour  Unstoppable Learning (repeat)  Learning is an integral part of human nature. But why do we -- as adults -- assume learning must be taught, tested and reinforced? Why do we put so much effort in making kids think and act like us? In this hour, TED speakers explore the different ways babies and children learn -- from the womb, to the playground, to the web.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  Johnny Burke, Part 2  The second of two shows devoted to lyricist Johnny Burke, who knew how to write hits.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. 
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  Sonic Travelers: Jerry Douglas and Guitar Shorty (repeat)  It’s a blues and country showdown with two instrumental showmen. Jerry Douglas is a master of the dobro, and a favorite session man and band member for so many musicians: from Allison Krauss to Elvis Costello. We’ll talk to Jerry about his recent project, which leads him beyond bluegrass to New Orleans. Then, a visit with the acrobatic bluesman Guitar Shorty, who shares some history on his times traveling the Chitlin Circuit.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  Bluegrass Counties M-R

24 MONDAY
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.  We hear a profile of LA-based filmmaker/composer Tucker Stilley, who has remained extraordinarily creative and funny, despite having to contend with the near-impossible obstacles imposed by ALS.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto

25 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel
with Rick Steves.  Guides from Sorrento explain how their cliffside city is an easy hop to historical and scenic adventures, and also a great place to relax with a chilled glass of homemade limoncello. We'll also get a commercial pilot's perspective on the airline industry with tips for enjoying your next flight.  Finally, Rick checks in with listeners "of a certain age" who have fun travel reports to share.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Alternative Endings  Guest Host Jane Curtin “Beg, SI Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep (Begin, Slip together, Increase, Continue, Repeat)” by Amy Hempel, performed by Anika Noni Rose;
“Sarah’s Story” by Galina Vroman, performed by Jane Curtin.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air 

10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto

26 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation
with Dr. Moira Gunn. 
5:00pm Bytemarks Café 
with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa. 
6:30pm CounterSpin
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto

27 THURSDAY
4:00pm My Word  
Now known all over the English-speaking world, My Word! has been variously described as "...a witty enquiry into the language", "...a literary riot", "...a mixture of erudition and fun", "...a feast of ingenuity and wit", and "...a provocative play on words." Its regular team of word-spinners consists of four professional writers and wits--each famous in his or her own field. 
4:30pm 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.
10:00pm Echoes  with John DiLiberto

28 FRIDAY
4:00pm Inside Europe  
From Deutsche Welle Radio, this weekly program provides listeners with the latest developments in Europe as a network of staff and freelance correspondents look beyond the headlines to provide analysis, background and color to make the European story relevant for American listeners. 
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 four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere.

29 SATURDAY
12:00am Jazz After Hours
 with Jim Wilke
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 Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of “Mad Hungry Cravings,” for another round of  Key 3, and we talk with award-winning writer and Texan Robb Walsh about whether or not Tex-Mex is an actual cuisine. He’s the author of “The Hot Sauce Cookbook.” Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am
Radiolab 
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. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine. 
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
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour 
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Vocalist/pianist Tony DeSare got his big break playing the lead in the Off-Broadway musical Our Sinatra and has been a pillar of retro cool ever since - but he also performs original music along with sets of beloved standards. DeSare sings and plays his deliciously romantic original, “How I Will Say I Love You,” and McPartland backs him on “Memories of You.”
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

30 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 
11:00am New Dimensions 
Two Cultural Cycles: Logos and Mythos  Culture has two dominant ways of knowing: Mythos and Logos. Human civilization has moved through many eras where one or the other has dominated its thinking. It’s important to have a balance of both and to recognize and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each. Joe McHugh is the author of "Slaying the Gorgon: The Rise of the Storytelling Industrial Complex."
12:00pm
TED Radio Hour  A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  In the Grace of Your Room  Songs that trace the emotions of privacy, solitude, loneliness, and independence.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. 
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  Hard Times and Honky Tonks: Dale Watson, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (repeat) The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. We visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations.  Gillian and David share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.”  Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  Bluegrassizing Country Number Ones 1988-1989