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 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 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-Midnight (Monday-Thursday) Jazz
8:00pm (Friday) The Real Deal with Seth Markow 
10:00pm (Friday) Jazz

1 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.  An interview with Salman Khan, creator of a thousand YouTube videos (all on calculus), founder of Khan Academy, and author of “The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.” Then, on BioTech Nation, Dr. Gary Ruvkun, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, who was awarded the 2012 Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa. How did technology bills fare in this year’s legislative session. Which bills made it and and which ones died in the process? What does the tech community need to do to plan for next year?
6:30pm CounterSpin  The Boston bombings were labeled as terrorist attacks almost from the start. But what does that label mean, and how is it used? We'll talk to Cal State University of Chico professor Beau Grosscup about how the term is usedand perhaps misusedand what that means. Also, much of the town of West, Texas was destroyed in an explosion at the West Fertilizer plant on April 18. Why was there 270 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate in a plant nestled among homes and schools? Because criminal laws were being broken, says famed EPA whistleblower Hugh Kaufman, who will join us to critique media portrayals of the disaster as merely a matter of regulatory oversights.

2 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.  It's May, and the 2013 legislative session is over. Political anaylyst Neal Milner joins Beth-Ann to take one last look at the Lege and how well this session helped to move Hawaii into the future.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell.  Horses and humans have long interacted, but now therapeutic horse riding is helping children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in some life-changing ways. Kim Wendell (Cori SikichTherapeutic Riding Center) and Sandra Ward (College of William Mary) were part of a study that found the benefits of riding carried over to more positive behaviors in the classroom. Also featured: Today on an iPhone or iPod there is an app for almost any facet of living. Tony Gentry (Virginia Commonwealth University) modifies apps to help employees with autism work more productively in their jobs. And: Inspired by her young daughter’s battle with a blood disorder, engineer Rasha Morsi (Norfolk State University) developed a game app called Blood Feud that encourages kids in hospitals to understand and fight their illnesses.

3 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.  Brooke talks to a scientist about how one company is defending its patent of two genes linked to breast cancer. Plus, how filing a Freedom of Information Act request just got a lot more complicated.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center  Matt Miller (Washington Post) moderates from the Center. On the Left, Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief, TruthDig-dot-com).  Vin Weber (Former GOP Congressman, Managing Partner at Mercury/Clark and Weinstock) is on the Right.  Much of the intelligence on the chemical weapons used in Syria comes from Israel. Does that somehow taint the intelligence? Meanwhile Russia is at odds with the U.S. over Syria. Why can’t Obama make headway with the Putin administration? And what happened to the “reset” with U.S.-Russian relations? Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio wants immigration reform, and so does President Obama. So what will it take to get immigration reform passed? And has the national GOP ceded the Latino vote for a generation by inaction? Good job numbers out Friday show growth for the U.S. economy. But there are some soft spots in the report, including the number of Americans that have given up on searching for work. Personal savings rates are also very low. The panel talks about whether the country has two economies (one for the rich and one for everybody else). A gun bill didn’t get passed. Immigration is stalled. Maureen Down and Charles Krauthammer are hashtagging that a FAIL. Has Obama already blown his post-election power?

4 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.  Mexican chef Pati Jinich, author of “Pati’s Mexican Table,” joins us with her take on authentic Cinco de Mayo celebrations, the Sterns are at Eckl’s Beef & Weck in Orchard Park, NY, and we talk to food activist and McArthur Genius award recipient Will Allen about his new book “The Good Food Revolution.” Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Speed  We live our lives at human speed; we experience the world on a human time scale. But this hour, we’ll put ourselves through the paces, peek inside a microsecond, and master the fastest thing in the universe. We'll take a look at one of the longest-running science experiments in history, and team up with NPR's Planet Money to try to wrap our heads around the speed of high frequency trading.
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  Hit The Road  It's spring, so we're opening windows and going places, with stories of people who, for reasons that they can't always explain, feel compelled to get out and go somewhere. Including the story of one man who decides to take a trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco by foot.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  The top editor of French "Vogue" rents a spooky flat in Paris; a man takes his ailing wife on a motorcycle ride; rapper Darryl "DMC" McDaniels confesses his Sarah McLachlan obsession; and a high schooler is put to the test when he comes out of the closet.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Saxophonist Phil Woods is a true master of all things bop. He’s been called one of the top alto players since his debut in the 1950s, and the musical heir to Charlie Parker. He cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Buddy Rich, and since 1973 his quartet has been redefining bebop. On this session from 2003, he joins Marian, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin on “How About You” and “Fine and Dandy.”
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

5 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  Creativity and the Everyday Brain  New techniques of brain imaging, neuropsychologist Rex Jung tells Krista, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettles some old assumptions and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, and creativity and purpose.
11:00am New Dimensions  Mindfulness Practice: Slowing Down-Tapping Into Our Inner Resources  As a Congressman, Tim Ryan has a dream for America which includes healthcare for all, a sustainable eco-system, one that fosters creativity at the highest levels, and time to connect with family and friends.  He sees us slowing down and becoming more kind and more aware. To help us do this, he advocates training ourselves in mindfulness awareness.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour  Unstoppable Learning  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? 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  Hurry, It’s Lovely Up Here  Songs for being up on the rooftops, from penthouses to tenements, from summer heat to pouring rain.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.  From the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia, it's a live broadcast performance, with special guests, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, Rob Fisher, Joe Newberry and the DiGiallonardo Sisters. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Howard Levy sits in on harmonica with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  The Black Keys & The Soul Rebels (repeat)  We’re sitting down with two bands who make their hometowns proud. The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, from Akron, Ohio, have roots in the blues and rock but construct a sound all their own. We chat with them backstage at a performance in the Crescent City. Then New Orleans brass band innovators the Soul Rebels talk about bringing the sounds of the streets to clubs around the world.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen Live

6 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. A warming world and extreme weather are a huge global challenge, but the head of the UN's climate team says countries will agree to a binding deal to slow emissions because there's no alternative. Also, robins on the lawn, listening for worms.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.  Arthritis -- is it inevitable? What can you do to preserve your joints, and what's the latest in minimally invasive orthopedic surgery? Dr. Scott Crawford from Straub Clinic will share the latest in orthopedic innovations.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  Sharon Salzberg, an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation, describes the technique of "lovingkindness," a way of seeing others and relating to oneself that allows the practitioner to get past resentments and have a clearer view of reality.

7 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves.  Discover how you can enjoy Mexico and the Netherlands like you're one of the family.  The authors of "The People's Guide to Mexico" recommend how to make your next trip south of the border extra-fun and culturally-rewarding.  Also, Rick looks into family-friendly cultural treats that you can enjoy in the Netherlands, including Europe's guilty TV pleasure, the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Dorothy Parker’s Wicked Pen  “Here We Are” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander; “Just a Little One” by Dorothy Parker, performed  by Dana Ivey; “The Waltz” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey. Guest host: David Sedaris.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air  After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family in 2003, and later opened his own law practice in mid-Missouri. The author of four previous novels published in England, George made his American debut with the 2012 novel, "A Good American," which received accolades from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and O Magazine. An epic tale about German emigrants who settle in Missouri in the late 1800s, the novel explores the notion of family, home, and what it means to be an American. George discusses the inspiration behind this novel (now out in paperback) and why it took six years to write.

8 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.  A talk with Jonah Berger, the James G. Campbell Assistant professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He's written, "Contagious: Why Things Catch On." Then on BioTech Nation, medical diagnostics and devices, looking inside our bodies, and working with therapeutics. Pascale Witz is President and CEO of Medical Diagnostics at GE Healthcare, Jonathan Allis is General Manager of Positron Emission Tomography at GE Healthcare, and Stamatis Astra is CEO of Photoral.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.  We’ll get an update on the Henry Ku‘ualoha Guigni digital film archive project we debuted a year ago, and find out how the project, now called Ulu Ulu, has progressed, what films are archived, and what the future holds.
6:30pm CounterSpin  A whistleblower report confirms what many already sensed: in the wake of the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP was more interested in appearances than in the health and safety of people or ecosystems. Journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard is the environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine. He'll join us to discuss his article on the extent, and the impact, of BP's cover up. Also, the right has managed to manufacture a controversy over something they call an "Obama Phone." The story is basically bogus, but it's having real world effects nonetheless. We'll talk to Jamilah King from Colorlines about that.|

9 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.  Offenders pay their debt to society, but often when they're released, many will change their personal cycle of crime again unless someone intervenes. The District of Hawaii's Re-Entry Court is intense, it's tough, and the latest class to graduate says it works. Guests include Chief Judge Mollway, re-entry program probation officer Jenny Coats, and a program participant TBA.
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 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.  In this golden age of high-quality, cheap media content, Bob and Brooke ask the question, How are we going to pay for this stuff? Find out whether services like Netflix and Spotify are a promising sign of things to come, or whether, as Bob suspects, were observing a supernova's bright and glorious flash before digital business models prove unsustainable.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center  Matt Miller (Washington Post) moderates from the Center. On the Left, Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief, TruthDig-dot-com). Byron York (Washington Examiner) brings the conservative view. We, and Congress, examine the Benghazi attack and immigration policy, among a litany of topics. The Benghazi testimony was notably devoid of grandstanding and focussed on whether the administration tried to cover up whether the assault was terrorism. The immigration debate rages, and zeroes in on border security and a legalization process. Should the FBI have shared Russia's intelligence on the Tsarnaev brothers with Boston officials? It's looking like we will hit the debt ceiling in October instead of May. It's good news for the short term. Rave reviews for City College and access to quality education. The IRS confirms that conservative groups have been inappropriately targeted by the IRS. And finally, feeling wistful about the Great Gatsby and seeing movies first.

11 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 talk to award-winning journalist Michael Moss about the food giants that decide what we eat. He is the author of “Salt, Sugar, Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us.” Chopped’s Ted Allen has advice on how to get out of our food ruts, and we look at the stirrings of a movement in the wine world, natural wine. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Musical Language  We examine the line between language and music. What is music? Why does it move us? We re-imagine the disastrous debut of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in 1913 through the lens of modern neurology, and we meet a composer who uses computers to capture the musical DNA of dead composers in order to create new work.
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: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. PANELISTS: Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts, Brian Babylon.
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 Cruelty of Children  Stories about kids being mean to each other... including a mysterious handbook for bullies, a surprising experiment conducted by a teacher who wants to make kids be nice, and a story of youthful backstabbing told by David Sedaris.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  The victim of a random stabbing struggles to reestablish his life while suffering from post traumatic stress disorder; author Nathan Englander describes coming of age at 19 while traveling through Europe to witness the fall of The Berlin Wall; and an artist and documentary film maker loses three years of work in an instant and finds it hard to continue. Hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Vocalist Jane Monheit has tempered her phenomenal vocal range and musical intuition with perhaps the rarest gift of all: restraint. The thirty something singer has already performed with top artists including Ron Carter, Terrence Blanchard, and the late Michael Brecker, and she‘s sure to stick around for years to come. On this 2001 program with Marian at the piano, Monheit performs “My Foolish Heart,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and McPartland’s tune, “In The Days Of Our Love.”
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

12 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  What We Nurture  Sylvia Boorstein says the best way to nurture children's inner lives is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista draws out the warmth and wisdom of the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. And, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.
11:00am New Dimensions  Forgiveness Is The Path (repeat)  African American Ronita Johnson, daughter of a minister, tells her powerful story of healing from shame, rage, and bitterness. She shares the importance of having a circle of deep listening where one can speak from the heart and how it leads to healing. She also shares how to start a circle for yourself and what are the first steps toward forgiveness.
12:00pm TED Radio Hour  Making Mistakes (repeat)  We try so hard to be perfect, to never make mistakes and to avoid failure at all costs. But mistakes happen -- and when they do -- how do we deal with being wrong? TED speakers look at those difficult moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  My Fate Is in Your Hands  When you sing about fate and love in the same lyric, you’ve taken hold of the most romantic popular songs.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. From the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, it's a live broadcast, with special guests, Music City all-stars The Time Jumpers and fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan. 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  Men of Steel and Soul (repeat)  We're bringing the blues from the clubs to the church. The Campbell Brothers, from Rochester, NY, are masters of sacred steel. With both pedal and lap steel guitars, they summon the spirit in voice and sound. We'll talk about growing up in the church and playing gospel blues on the guitar. Then, New Orleans bluesman Walter "Wolfman" Washington stops by the studio for a conversation about his life in the music and in the clubs around town.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen Live  He had some mighty big shoes to fill, but fill them he has. With his powerful and stately baritone voice, adventuresome spirit, knock-em dead guitar playing, ability to think outside the box, an ear for great songs from within or without the bluegrass tradition. Randy Waller & the Country Gentleman will be pickin’ ‘em live and hitting them out of the park.

13 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. Republicans complain that EPA regulations cost too much and boycott the Senate committee to approve the agency's new head. But a new report says the benefits of EPA rules are worth ten times the cost. Also, turning the cash from shale gas leases into shiny new solar panels.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak  It's all in the eyes, and that's what todays' show is all about. Eyelid surgery, cosmetic procedures, and more. Dr. Melanie Tantisara is in the studio, talking about the latest in eye health, both inside and out!
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  We hear excerpts from ‘Escape Fire,’ a powerful new documentary that recently aired on CNN, along with comments by its young director, Matthew Heineman, about the over-scheduled work day of doctors and how too many pharmaceuticals don’t make us better.

14 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves.  Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams tells us why her dedication to the rugged beauty of the Utah wilderness where she lives requires her to speak out on its behalf. Also, a tour guide from Italy describes how he gets away from it all, riding a motorbike across the vast expanses of the Sahara desert in North Africa.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  What Would You Do?  “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt; “The Night in Question” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio; “I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris. Guest host: David Sedaris.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air  Christina Anderson is an up-and-coming playwright in New York City,who grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and eventually made her way to Brown University and then to Yale to study theatre. She discusses the importance of transformation in her plays, from the first creative spark to the final curtain call. She hopes that her work will inspire change in the real world by testing audiences about their feelings on settings and situations not often examined. Anderson reads from her play, "Good Goods," published in 2012 in "The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays," and discusses "Blacktop Sky," which is part of the National New Play Network.

15 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.  A talk with New York Times magazine journalist Jon Gertner. He's the author of "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation." Then on BioTech Nation, developing biotechnology in the interest of global health, and the challenges brought about by biotech patents. Don Joseph, CEO of BIO Ventures for Global Health, and David Gass, a patent attorney with Marshall, Gerstein, Borun, offer their own unique views.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.  We’ll learn how a school in Waipahu and a company on Bishop Street are creating a culture of innovation. Both organizations are leveraging a technique called Design Thinking. How is this implemented to transform the organization?
6:30pm CounterSpin  When the White House announced in late April that it suspected the Syrian government of using Sarin nerve gas, those suspicions quickly became facts in many corporate media. When on-the-ground reporting emerged casting doubt that Sarin had been used in Syria at all, the stories were largely ignored. We'll discuss rumors of weapons of mass destruction and unlearned media lessons, with our own Peter Hart. Also, U.S. media were outraged at the news that Afghan president Hamid Karzai receives cash payments from the CIA. Much of the outrage was directed at Karzai, strangely, though the CIA came in for criticism too. But our guest suggests that brouhaha serves mainly to divert the public from the far bigger and still untold story of the corrupting influence the U.S. mission is having in Afghanistan. We'll talk about that with playwright, journalist and author, Dilip Hiro.

16 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.  A  look at foster care. Many of the children in the system come from broken homes and have suffered some type of trauma or abuse...so how does foster care help or hinder how they cope and prepare them for life out on their own?  We'll talk with David Drews, Na `Ohana Pulama division administrator, and Gernani Yutob, Jr., the president of the HI H.O.P.E.S. Youth Leadership Board on O'ahu and a therapeutic foster care mom who supports emotionally and behaviorally challenged kids and youth ages 5-19.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell  Butterfly in the Typewriter  “A Confederacy of Dunces,” by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. Published almost 12 years after his tragic suicide, the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and became a modern classic. Cory MacLauchlin’s (Germanna Community College) new biography of Toole, “Butterfly in the Typewriter,” tells two stories: one of the author himself, the other of his great novel. Also featured: Harry Crews, whose Southern Gothic novels conjured a world of hard-drinking and hard-living outsiders, died last year. David Jeffrey (James Madison University) has interviewed Crews at length and is the editor of “A Grit’s Triumph: Essays on the Works of Harry Crews.”

17 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.  This week, the public learned that the Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records of Associated Press journalists. We'll look at how journalists are trying to protect themselves from prying eyes.
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.  The White House hits the trifecta for scandal this week. Will the administration be distracted and ineffective from here on out? The head of the IRS apologizes and claims there was no political motivation behind its treatment of conservative groups. Is it a benign symbol of an unwieldy, too-big government, or a terrifying reminder of the Nixon years? The Justice Department seizes Associated Press phone records. Should we be worried about our free press and First Amendment rights? Or is the media just reacting when it hits close to home. The White House releases emails about Benghazi and hopes to quiet the outrage. Is hope for a productive second term over for the Obama administration? A New York Times article by Peter Baker suggests it may be -- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/politics/new-controversies-may-undermine-obama.html?ref=peterbaker

18 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.  It’s another installment in our series The Key 3 -  interviews with chefs and good cooks about the three recipes other good cooks should know. This time, it’s award-winning chef Andrea Reusing of Chapel Hills’ The Lantern. The Sterns are at The Blue Bonnet Café in Marble Falls, TX, and we get the storing of the Vietnamese tradition of monthly rice from journalist Claudia Kolker. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Words  It's almost impossible to imagine a world without words, but we try to do just that. We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago.
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: Musician Alice Cooper PANELISTS: Tom Bodett, Kyrie OConnor, 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  Hot In My Backyard  After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift just a little last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire. Lots of people were wondering if global warming had finally arrived, here at home.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  Andy Christie - "It's Not the Fall That Gets You" - A midlife parachute jump; Daniel Choi - "Don't Tell, Martha!" - War Veteran decides to honor The Honor Code and comes out of the closet; Vikki Kelleher - "Tell Him It's OK to Go" - A woman at her grandfather's deathbed; Tom Ziegler - "Fireman's Remorse" - With no engine backup, a fireman is unable to save two kids; Brian Finkelstein - "How I Earned My Bitter Badge" - Falling in love with an engaged woman.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Grady Tate began his jazz career as a much-celebrated drummer, backing up big names like Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, and Quincy Jones. Tate traded in his skins for a microphone, and now employs his baritone to deliver smooth and soulful vocals. With pianist John di Martino, Tate sings “Everybody Loves My Baby” and “All Blues.”
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

19 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  A Shift to Humility  Andrew Zolli, Curator and Executive Director of PopTech, and author, together with Ann Marie Healy, of "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back," is a catalyst in an emerging way of thinking about everything from urban design to economic development to mental health. It's called resilience thinking, and it's a new generation's move away from the focus on long-term solutions thats defined western culture. They're asking instead how to create structures to support human beings in thriving in the world we inhabit now.
11:00am New Dimensions  Designing Products Toward Sustainability  Tom Darden is looking at products that have positive environmental effect. He describes the “cradle to cradle” philosophy which is that all of the waste of a product would be food in the next cycle by capturing that “food” as either technical nutrients or biological nutrients, with the technological ones staying in a closed system so as not to pollute the biological ones.
12:00pm TED Radio HourGiving It Away  You can give away almost anything -- your time, money, food, your ideas. Giving helps define who we are and helps us connect with others, and thanks to the internet and a rise in social consciousness, there's been a seismic shift not only in what were giving, but how. We'll hear stories from TED speakers who are giving it away in new and surprising ways, and the things that happen in return.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  This Must Be Illegal  Tributes to what may just be the most delightful form of sin.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.  While the 1978 Winnebago is being tuned up for the remainder of our live broadcast season, we'll rebroadcast this season's opener from The Fitzgerald Theater. The Derailers bring a little Texas honky tonk to Minnesota with "She Left Me Cold," Ira Glass appears in an episode of Guy Noir as a fugitive named Irwin Krpsntzch, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele bring the house down with "Soothe Me," and Garrison and Holly Jones sing "Duquesne Whistle." In Lake Wobegon, Mr. Lofgren's orchard produces an exceptional harvest of his "Julia" apples.
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  Words & Music (repeat)  Do the words make the song or the notes? What does it take to tell a good tale in music or about music? We put those questions to a few writers of both songs and stories. Singer-songwriter and memoirist Rosanne Cash sits down before a live audience to tell us about her authorial journey, then we chat with novelist Cyril Vetter on translating a musician’s life into fiction. And New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King spins a few tall tales from the juke joint.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  October and November, 1972  We’ll be shooting back 40 years when, among other things, 14 year old Marty Stuart begins being featured playing the guitar and mandolin with Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass, Bobby Osburn’s son Robby joins the Osburn Brothers on drums, The Nitty Gritty Dirtband’s monumental 3-LP “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” is released, and Norman Blake starts playing every Wednesday night at the Ole Time Pickin’ Parlor in Nashville.

20 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. Farming and fishing are the foundation of our food supply, but they both face threats. Many fisheries are over-exploited, and chickens have routinely been fed growth promoters containing arsenic. Food watchdog groups have taken action to keep arsenic out as it can persist in the meat you eat. Also, a chef takes action to serve more sustainable sushi.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.  May is Asthma Month, and if you or someone you love suffers from this health condition, there are new treatments and guidelines you need to know about. Dr. Jeff Kam will be in the studio to tell us more.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  We consider the quiet beauty of urban trees, which improve health in high-emissions neighborhoods and which some environmentalists believe may be our “first line of defense” against greenhouse gases associated with climate change.

21 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves.  Guides specializing in Eastern Europe highlight  the charms of Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw and Gdansk, where the prices can be as friendly as the people. Also, Fred Plotkin explains how this is a really big anniversary year for opera. He recommends performances celebrating the birthdays of Wagner, Verdi, and Benjamin Britten.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Family Values  “Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out” by Patricia Highsmith, performed by Tandy Cronyn; “Powder” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer. Guest host: David Sedaris.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air  Richard Ford talks with fellow writer Whitney Terrell in front of an audience at the Kansas City Public Library as part of the Writers at Work series. Listed as a 2012 Best Book of the Year in various newspapers and magazines, CANADA depicts an unusual tale of transgressions set against the backdrop of North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. The 1996 winner of both the Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner Awards, Ford shares stories about his creative process, and why he pursues certain stories and takes his time with the telling of them.

22 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn.  Science and future journalist Annalee Newitz will discuss her new book, "Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction." Then on BioTech Nation, Alexis Wallace, President and CEO of Thrombolytic Science International (TSI), talks about strokes, current care, and what to expect in the future.
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.  We’ll find out what it means to be a "maker" and take a look into the growing maker movement here in Hawai`i. It’s a celebration of invention, creativity and resourcefulness in which innovative technologies drive creativity in manufacturing.
6:30pm CounterSpin  The Justice Department's investigation of the AP poses a threat to freedom of the press and the public's right to know, but the story itself, about a supposed al Qaeda bomb plot thwarted by the CIA, has taken some interesting turns, calling into question the facts of the bomb plot story, and the Justice Deparment's rationale for investigating AP. We'll talk with Marcy Wheeler of the website Emptywheel, who has been out in front on this story from early on. Also, the AP story is a reminder, if one were necessary, that the Obama administration has pursued government whistleblowers with a vengeance. A new documentary tells those storiesand explains how such actions undermine press freedom and investigative journalism. Filmmaker Robert Greenwald will join us to talk about his film, 'War on Whistleblowers.'

23 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. Rail is looking pretty rosy: HART has collected more GET dollars than expected, the archaeological inventory is well over and, aside from the periodic lane closures, residents aren't feeling much of the project's effect. However, there is the expedited hearing of the appeal by rail opponents set for August. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, and HART CEO Dan Grabauskas will be in the studio to discuss.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell  The Opera Singer  John Aler made his operatic debut in 1977 as Ernesto in Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale.’ Since then, he’s performed in some of the greatest opera houses in the world and has won four Grammys for his classical recordings. Aler shares his thoughts on voice and the future of singing. Also, we’ll also speak with a researcher at the forefront of positive psychology.

24 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.  A look at the many scandals swirling around President Obama. Hear why scandals, when they happen, so often seem to happen all at once. Plus, meet a Brooklyn nun who's blowing the whistle on sexual abuse from within the Catholic Church.
6:30pm Left, Right & Center  Matt Miller (Washington Post) moderates from the Center. On the Left, Robert Scheer (Editor-in-Chief, TruthDig-dot-com). On the Right, Stuart Stevens (top strategist for Mitt Romney). Chrystia Freeland (Thomson Reuters Digital) rounds out the Center.  Barack Obama announces an end to the decade-and-counting-long War on Terror although Gitmo remains open for business. Is the Obama administration all over the map when it comes to terror? The administration also continues to take criticism for Eric Holder’s dubious handing of the First Amendment and monitoring journalists. Is Obama really “worse than Nixon?”  The Boy Scouts voted this week to admit gay scouts but deferred a decision on adult gay scout leaders.  Are the scouts going far enough reflect the large cultural shift in opinions about gay rights by recognizing the reality of gay scouts? Is Apple the good guy or bad guy in when it comes to dodging corporate taxes? The IRS scandal stands in contrast to legislators’ glowing criticism of Apple. Can Anthony Weiner make a clean comeback in the race for the mayor of New York? And a staggeringly low percentage of Los Angeles votes chose Eric Garcetti to be their next mayor. Lots of news and lots to discuss this week.

25 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 talk to spice merchant Lior Lev Sercaz, owner of La Bote Epice in NYC,  we take a look at Filipino food with Marvin Gapultos , author of “The Adobo Road Cookbook,” and turn to the duo behind The Perennial Plate to talk about their food travels in Spain. Listeners can call The Splendid Table at 800-537-5252 - anytime! We do call-backs.
10:00am Radiolab  Who Am I?  The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests, but in this hour, neurologists lead the charge on profound questions like "How does the brain make me?" We stare into the mirror with Dr. Julian Keenan, reflect on the illusion of selfhood with British neurologist Paul Broks, and contemplate the evolution of consciousness with Dr. V. S. Ramachandran.
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: NBC Football Sideline Reporter Michele Tafoya PANELISTS: Adam Felber, Faith Salie, Mo Rocca
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  Plan B  There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.
2:00pm The MOTH Radio Hour  Professional gambler Annie Duke details a pivotal poker game at the televised Tournament of Champions; road rage lands a  new mom in jail; a young woman is about to give birth just as her grandfather is dying; and a Holocaust survivor describes hiding with cloistered nuns as a little girl during World War 2.
3:00pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz  Pianist and singer Barbara Carroll was one of McPartland’s very first guests on Piano Jazz. On this return appearance from 2009, Carroll reminisces with her good friend about their experiences at New York’s Hickory House and the Oak Room. Carroll gives a charmed performance of “Very Early” and McPartland improvises a musical portrait of her guest.
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

26 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  Remembering God  Christian Wiman is a writer who has come to give voice, to his own surprise, to the hunger for faith and the challenge of faith for people now. He was 37 when he became editor of Poetry magazine a decade ago. This summer, he will step down as editor to join the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature. His Texas upbringing was soaked in both a history of violence and a charismatic Christian culture. He wasn't formally religious for years after he left home, lived all over the world, and became a poet. In his late 30s, he married the love of his life, found God again, and was diagnosed with an incurable, unpredictable cancer. So Christian Wiman is more aware of his mortality than most of us. And he's bearing a kind of poetic witness to something new happening in himself and in the world.
11:00am New Dimensions  Genuine Sustainable Abundance  Does our present system of economics truly serve the needs of the 21st century world? What are the stepping stones to a new economic structure? Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne give many examples of successful, large scale, cooperative and complementary currencies in place today offering various communities resilience and sustainability and making for more robust economic systems.
12:00pm TED Radio HourMemory Games  Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. When we tap into our memories, wheres the line between fact and fiction? How does our memory play tricks on us, and how can we train it to be more accurate? TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else's.
1:00pm Kanikapila Sunday with Derrick Malama
4:00pm Fascinatin' Rhythm with Michael Lasser  Johnny Mercer Starts a Company  Lyricist Johnny Mercer and his partners began Capitol Records to raise the quality of songwriting and singing – and make a buck doing it.
5:00pm Sinatra, the Man and the Music with Guy Steele
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. From the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, it's a live performance with special guests: harmonizing duo The Milk Carton Kids, and singers Aoife O'Donovan and Heather Masse. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, harmonicist Howard Levy joins The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
8:00pm American Routes with Nick Spitzer  Kings of the Road: From Ramblin' Jack to Kerouac (repeat)  Get your key to the highway as we look at "the road" as destination, inspiration and home away from home in blues, country, jazz and more. Folkie and fellow traveler Ramblin' Jack Elliot recalls the allure of the road in music and life. Plus, historian and author Douglas Brinkley joins us to speak on travel as muse for beat author Jack Kerouac and others.
10:00pm Full Nelson with Tim Vandeveer 
11:00pm Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs  NewFound Road Live  

27 MONDAY
4:00pm Living On Earth with Steve Curwood. In recent years there have been violent shifts and extremes in the weather, and now atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen in millions of years. With hurricane season about to begin, we take a look at what to expect going forward. Also, magpies are noisy, predacious and loathed, but ornithologists say they dont deserve the bad rap.
5:00pm The Body Show with Dr. Kathleen Kozak.  Dr. Malcolm Ing is in the studio, and we're talking about healthy eye care for Hawaii's keiki. The best time to start eye exams, whether your kids need sunglasses, too, and what to do if your child seems to have crossed eyes.
6:30pm Humankind with David Freudberg.  The surprising power of imagining positive outcomes in life is explored by NY Times best-selling author David Allen, who finds that when people vividly picture the solutions to problems, it can reset their nervous system and remove self-imposed blockages.

28 TUESDAY
4:00pm Travel with Rick Steves.  Photographer Annie Leibovitz joins us to describe what it meant to zoom in on places and objects from the icons of American culture from Walden Pond to Niagara Falls and from Ghost Ranch to Graceland. Listeners also give ideas for planning extraordinary travels.
5:00pm Selected Shorts  Convergence  “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons; “Jesus is Waiting” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson. Guest host: David Sedaris.
6:30pm New Letters on the Air  John Ciardi 

29 WEDNESDAY
4:00pm Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn. 
5:00pm Bytemarks Café with Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa.  Hawaii is poised to send a satellite into low earth orbit. Burt and Ryan will talk about the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory, the multi-campus endeavor to send a payload into space from the Pacific Missile Range on Kauai.
6:30pm CounterSpin  PBS says no to Koch. Not the soft drink, but a documentary called Citizen Koch, about the billionaire right-wing political donors. We'll speak with Tia Lessin, the film's co-director, about what happened. Also, actress Angelina Jolie’s announcement that she had a preventive double mastectomy brought breast cancer into the spotlight. The thing about media spotlights, though, is they don't always shed the most useful light. Is the press drawing the sort of lessons from the Jolie story that really will improve women's health choices? We'll talk with Karuna Jaggar from the group Breast Cancer Action about that.

30 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.  Workplace and classroom design are changing - and supporters of the new collaborative space model say it's all with better thinking in mind. Beth-Ann sits down with Bettina Mehnert, COO of Architects Hawaii and Mahina Hugo, head of school at La Pietra about how reconfigured work and class spaces are reshaping the ways we learn and do business.
6:30pm With Good Reason with Sarah McConnell  The Legacy of FDR  An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Depression and World War II. Pulitzer Prize winning FDR biographer David Kennedy (Stanford University) gives a spellbinding account of this ebullient man of constant cheer who crafted the New Deal and the social security system. Kennedy and University of Virginia historian Sid Milkis spoke at a recent conference held by the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University. Also featured: Faiths of the Founding Fathers. Europeans who traveled to the thirteen colonies brought countless strains of Christianity with them, and the freedom of the wild frontier allowed many new sects and congregations to flourish. David Holmes (College of William and Mary) gives us insights into the religious beliefs of the founding fathers.

31 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.