Programs

Produced in New Orleans, American Routes explores the shared stylistic and cultural threads of our nation's music and how they are distinguished, including blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.

Dave Higgs brings listeners an emotionally charged, heartrending, paint-peeling, splinter-kicking one hour bluegrass show.

Each week on this historical series, one of our expert hosts brings to light the talent, personalities, and music that make up the rich tradition of bluegrass. Learn more about your favorite song or just reminisce. And, don't worry, there won't be a quiz!

Hosted by Phil Nusbaum, the Bluegrass Review presents bluegrass in an engaging, entertaining and informative package.

WAMU Bluegrass Country's Jen Hitt hosts this Americana program highlighting new acoustic American roots music.

Dick Spottswood highlights the many facets of folk culture in the United States on his two hour show.

etown is an exciting weekly radio broadcast heard from coast to coast on NPR, public, and commercial stations that features performances from many of today's top musical artists as well as conversations and information about the world around us.

The perfect cure for those mid-week doldrums! Join Echo as she spins some contemporary and progressive bluegrass and Americana music, sure to get you tapping your foot and singing along. Grassify Your Life!

Home Town Special focuses on music from the late 1940s through to the early 1960s including everything from blues to bluegrass as well as R&B, vocal groups, country, rockabilly, gospel quartets and more. Whatever it takes to trace songs, performers, and record companies backwards and forwards through this dynamic period in American musical history.

Lee has hosted bluegrass programs on WAMU 88.5's airwaves for over 25 years. He continues his tradition of spinning contemporary bluegrass for you, live in the studio, each weekday. His Saturday program focuses on the great singer/songwriters in bluegrass and acoustic music.

Mountain Stage is an internationally-distributed weekly, two-hour live performance music radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting featuring some of the world’s greatest artists in an intimate and relaxed atmosphere with a live-broadcast edge. Mountain Stage blends studio quality with live performance before a theater audience. Each program features four or five guests.

Host Lisa Kay Howard spins 3 hours of contemporary and traditional bluegrass and gives listeners a peek into the local bluegrass scene.

This Bluegrass Country show features a rotating cast of hosts and themes.

Hosted by Cliff Furnald, RootsWorld Radio takes you on a tour across borders and genres, introducing you to music from far flung places and sometimes from right in your own backyard, wherever you live. It might be jazz from Italy, folk music from Madagascar, Balkan music from Knoxville or a touch of the avant-garde from Toronto. Each week is a global tour, with no boundaries and no limits.

Fiona Ritchie hosts this celtic music program.

This weekly current affairs program reports from locations around the world, examining topical issues from a global perspective for a global audience. This is the program where the BBC's correspondents report first-hand and in-depth on events shaping the world.

Legendary radio personality Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s.

With a broader agenda than World Business Report, Business Daily brings more context to the big stories in business and economics. It includes interviews with newsmakers, key global players, and those at the cutting edge of new ideas, plus topics such as technology and innovation, business ethics, the environment and management.

For more than 25 years, The Diane Rehm Show has offered listeners thoughtful and lively conversations on an array of topics with many of the most distinguished people of our times. The Friday edition includes Diane's two-hour "News Round-up."

The BBC presents various radio documentaries on a wide variety of topics.

Host Terry Gross opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics.

Kojo Nnamdi's live two-hour magazine program highlights news, political issues, and social trends of the day. The Friday edition of the show includes "Politics Hour."

Morning business news from American Public Media.

The one-hour daily flagship program that, seven days a week, provides the latest news and interviews with newsmakers, eyewitnesses, correspondents, and analysts. Offering the best BBC reportage and features, debate and discussion, it's global in reach, authoritative in style.

This compelling show examines the impact the media has on our lives.

An award-winning weekly sports magazine hosted by veteran NPR commentator Bill Littlefield, Only A Game is radio for the serious sports fan and the steadfast sports avoider. Produced by WBUR in Boston, Only A Game puts sports in perspective with intelligent analysis, insightful interviews and a keen sense humor.

Every Friday at noon, The Politics Hour connects you to your community -- interviewing news-makers and delving beyond the headlines to help you understand how government actions affect your life.

Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

Snap Judgment is a themed, weekly NPR storytelling show. We focus on presenting compelling personal stories - mixing tall tales with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio.

StoryCorps and WAMU 88.5 are teaming up to record and broadcast the stories of the D.C. region's diverse listening population.

The Tavis Smiley Show is a high-energy exchange of views, information, and insight hosted by Tavis Smiley.

The Vinyl Cafe is a radio show heard on CBC Radio in Canada, on selected public radio stations in the United States, on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 137, on Podcast, and live online. The show is written and hosted by Stuart McLean and features stories, essays and music (both live and recorded).

Part monologue and part telephone conversation, WireTap ushers you into the endearingly odd, funny universe of host Jonathan Goldstein's friends and family.

Witness - history as told by the people who were there. Five days a week we will be talking to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events.

World, Have Your Say is a ground-breaking, live global interactive program on radio every weekday and online 24/7. It invites World Service listeners and BBC online users to share their views and questions on key issues with a worldwide audience.

The Animal House is a weekly discussion that explores the latest in animal science, pet behavior, and wildlife conservation.

This weekly current affairs program reports from locations around the world, examining topical issues from a global perspective for a global audience. This is the program where the BBC's correspondents report first-hand and in-depth on events shaping the world.

Legendary radio personality Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s.

With a broader agenda than World Business Report, Business Daily brings more context to the big stories in business and economics. It includes interviews with newsmakers, key global players, and those at the cutting edge of new ideas, plus topics such as technology and innovation, business ethics, the environment and management.

Click is the BBC's flagship technology program, broadcast throughout the week on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

For more than 25 years, The Diane Rehm Show has offered listeners thoughtful and lively conversations on an array of topics with many of the most distinguished people of our times. The Friday edition includes Diane's two-hour "News Round-up."

The BBC presents various radio documentaries on a wide variety of topics.

Bridget Kendall presents The Forum, the show which brings together three innovative thinkers from different cultures and perspectives to put forward new ideas.

Each week, From Our Own Correspondent asks BBC reporters around the world to give a personal perspective on news events in their area. It's a program that combines expert analysis with insight and anecdote from an informed, personal point of view.

HARDtalk interviews newsmakers and personalities from across the globe.

This program has thought-provoking and illuminating reflections on a wide range of personal, moral, spiritual, and topical issues.

From 8 until 11 p.m., the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings as host Rob Bamberger spotlights music from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.

Host Maureen Fiedler provides engaging and informative discussion on the key public issues of our day through the lenses of many different faith perspectives.

Krista Tippett on Being -- formerly Speaking of Faith With Krista Tippett -- is public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.

The world’s Newsroom brings you global events as they happen.

A hybrid of a talk program and a news-magazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

Sunday evenings are dedicated to special in-house productions, timely local election coverage, and experimental programming such as the patchwork of sounds of the New York-based Radio Lab.

The Splendid Table is a culinary, culture, and lifestyle one-hour program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone.

The Story is a daily interview program designed to bring great stories to public radio in a way that will help listeners understand what is going on in their world and why it matters to them.

Ira Flatow hosts this science-focused call-in show every Friday afternoon.

The NPR talk show Tell Me More, with host Michel Martin, brings fresh voices and perspectives to public radio

Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news-based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.

Latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide.

This program has covered newsmakers and artists, scientists and politicians, music makers of all kinds, writers, thinkers, theologians and all manner of news events since 1987.

With Good Reason features in-depth interviews with leading scholars from Virgina's public universities about topics from the expanding universe to winemaking, and everything else in between.

Hosts Lisa Mullins and Tony Kahn take an in-depth look at the international news agenda and the issues behind the headlines from BBC correspondents across the world.