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WAMU's HD Channel 3 presents live music from WTMD on New Year's Eve from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Say 'yes we can' to listening to the Capitol Steps' annual year's end award ceremony.
Host Susan Stamberg of NPR pulls some pieces she's most proud of from the NPR audio archives.
Spend your New Year’s Eve with Rob Bamberger as he hosts A Hot Jazz New Year's Eve from 9:00pm until 2am.
Host Ed Walker kicks off the evening with two hours vintage radio broadcasts from New Year's Eves' past.
Gather round the fireplace and join Ed Walker for an evening of holiday classics from the golden age of radio.
This is a simulcast of the first hour of Ray's Bluegrass Country Christmas special.
Host Sam Litzinger explores Texas Swing through the works of the Quebe Sisters.
Join us as we comb through NPR's Holiday archives
The Colonial Radio Theatre pulls out all the stops in this magnificent production of the Charles Dickens classic!
Baby, it's cold outside! Host Jen Hitt spends an hour focusing on songs about snow, winter, light and family.
Imagine a musical party that celebrates the hopes, dreams and joy that animates seasonal festivals the world over.
Host Ed Walker of The Big Broadcast once again spins his Santa magic with four hours of vintage broadcasts from the golden age of radio.
Hanukkah Lights, with Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz, has now been an NPR tradition for nearly 2 decades.
In "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," host Bill McGlaughlin invites listeners to journey back to the roots of this most familiar lyric.
In a special holiday edition, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s.
PRI's "The World" brings one-of-a-kind international stories home to America.
Nick Spitzer hosts the 2009 National Heritage Concert featuring New Orleans Jazz, Bluegrass, and Capoeira.
Nick Spitzer hosts the 2009 National Heritage Concert featuring New Orleans Jazz, Bluegrass, and Capoeira.
Join WAMU'S HD Channel 3 Thanksgiving day for 12 hours of Holiday theme The Splendid Table with host Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
On Thursday, November 27, help is on the way for Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers and their guests on this, the biggest cooking day of the year!
Join playwright, David Mamet, as he delivers this year's Alistar Cooke Memorial Lecture on language.
Radio Lab's fifth season, hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.
American RadioWorks investigates the mysterious death of an Iraq War veteran and uncovers new allegations of detainee abuse.
NPR will offer live, anchored coverage of President-elect Barack Obama's press conference.
Join host Sam Litzinger for a journey through the life and music of Lead Belly.
Live election coverage from WAMU 88.5 and NPR in Washington, DC.
Join us for our international coverage of the US Presidential election.
We want to give our listeners a chance to talk about their concerns and excitement as they wait to vote in an historic election.
A one hour program featuring voters, key issues and the role of personalities in presidential elections, hosted by Aaron Brown and Elizabeth Arnold.
"Talking America" presents "The Challenges Ahead," with BBC's Claire Bolderson and KNOW/Minneapolis' Kerri Miller.
The dramatic 1968 presidential election was a watershed in American politics.
Although the memory of hanging chads still clouds the electoral mood, elections have come a long way.
Around the country, public housing projects are crashing down.
Economic woes and terrorist fears: Voters question lawmakers about the most pressing challenges facing the next President. The choice between Senators Obama and McCain could come down to a question of security, but is it economic security or national security?
Intelligence Squared US: where Oxford-style debating comes stateside and takes on America's hot button issues. Panelists on opposing sides of a controversial proposition hash it out and the audience determines the winner.
Neal Conan and NPR's talk crew are going on the road to include a live audience with the call-in for all four debates.
National Public Radio will provide live, anchored coverage of the Presidential debates as well as the sole Vice Presidential debate. Our coverage begins at 9pm with two hours of live special coverage and analysis of the debates followed by an hour-long call in program.
The wave of immigrants from south of the border has forever changed America. Big, coastal cities have absorbed immigrants for decades. But today, immigrants are changing the culture and the economics of cities and small towns nationwide.
As the campaign kicks into high gear, five former Secretaries of State discuss the future direction of American global leadership and the role of diplomacy.
Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp thru the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers.
The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce U.S. Senate Debate will be between former governors Mark Warner and Jim Gilmore.
The stars of this show are Americans, expressing their opinions, participating in our democratic discussion.
Host Sam Litzinger spends an hour exploring the music and life of Bhutanese musician/singer Kheng Sonam Dorji.
When Baptist preacher Uriah Butler led colonial Trinidad's labor movement in the 1930s, power coalitions felt the heat, responded with deadly force, and mobilized the working population behind him. Host Dick Spottswood tells the story and highlights the music it inspired.
Images of polar bears perched on melting glaciers and erratic weather have focused much of the globe's attention on climate change. Many nations will be looking to the US to lead, but how will the next president respond?
For more than 50 years, Joe Hickerson has performed over a thousand times throughout the U.S.A. and in Canada, Finland, and Ukraine. His repertoire includes a vast array of folksongs and allied forms in the English language, many with choruses.
Brazil. It conjures up images of carnival, the beaches of Rio, The Girl From Ipanema, and the samba. But a new Brazil is emerging on the world stage. Brazil today is one of the fastest growing players in the global economy, a bio-fuels pioneer on the fast track to energy self-sufficiency, a booming haven for foreign investment, and a test case for a new approach to governance in Latin America.
Red, White and Blues: The Sounds of Patriotic Pluralism
Bluegrasscountry.org is a country with many different states of mind.
Today at 4 pm on WAMU 88.5's HD Channel 3 we present live coverage of Tim Russert's memorial service at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
This time on Peace Talks Radio, the debate over the effects of violence in video games.
A Father's Day special hosted by Jay Allison.
Next time on Sound Sessions from Smithsonian Folkways: grab a camel or a yak for a cultural journey along the fabled Silk Road.
A Prime Time Radio special. Powerful and moving stories from five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. This special breaks new ground by focusing on parents, especially mothers, who have given up everything― jobs, retirement savings, and plans for the future―to step in and care for their sons.
Presented by WAMU 88.5, Interfaith Voices and All Souls Unitarian Church at 16th and Harvard Streets, NW
The RadioLab Marathon (Seasons 1-3) hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.
It's an hour-long listen to the music and life of Jean Ritchie, one of the great tradition-keepers of American folk music. She's a singer, composer, dulcimer player, folklorist and collector of music from the Appalachians and from Great Britain.
WAMU 88.5 presents special coverage of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries this Tuesday night starting at 8:00 p.m.
In recent years, Taiwan's loud talk of independence has raised fears of conflict between the US and China. We'll explore Taiwanese identity and politics. And we'll examine America's struggle to keep peace across the strait.
WAMU 88.5 will be extending All Things Considered, pre-empting The World and On Point to bring you coverage of the Pennsylvania Primary. At 10 p.m., NPR News will air a two-hour political call-in program hosted by Neal Conan.
Join us at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 24, as WAMU 88.5 and Koshland Science Museum present a live presentation of "Radio Lab," one of public radio's most unique and creative programs.
Why do some songs mercilessly stick in our heads and repeat themselves over and over? What makes these hooks so hooky? And how does a songwriter will a song forth from the ether? Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs that transcend language, and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.
What are the consequences when humans start playing with life? The human imagination has always dreamed up fantastic creatures, but now biotechnology is making it easier and easier for us to actually create forms of life that have never existed before. In this hour, Radio Lab looks at the uneasy marriage between biology and engineering, and asks what counts as "natural?"
An examination of the power of mass media to create panic. In Radio Lab's very first live hour, we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history - Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. And we ask: Why did it fool people then? And why has it continued to fool people since? From Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador.
We look at lies, liars, and lie catchers, and ask: can you lead a life without deception? We consult a cast of characters, from pathological liars to lying snakes to drunken psychiatrists, to try and understand the dark trait of deception.
We all laugh. But why? If you look closely, you'll find that humor has very little to do with it. In this episode, we explore the power of laughter to calm us, bond us to one another, or to spread... like a virus. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers, and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter.
John Adams, champion of the American Revolution, instrumental in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and second president of the young republic, was a study in contrasts. This extremely public citizen and charismatic speaker reserved his most intimate thoughts for a remarkable 60-year correspondence with his wife Abigail. Yet, despite Adams' huge influence, and the nation's unique knowledge of him, there are few monuments in his honor.
All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it considers the right to bear arms for the first time in nearly seventy years. Join WAMU 88.5's Kojo Nnamdi and NPR's Nina Totenberg on Tuesday at 7 p.m. as we bring you inside the deliberations, with the voices of the justices and in-depth analysis.
Join hosts Sam Litzinger and Jeff Place for another episode of Sound Sessions from Smithsonian Folkways, featuring Pete Seeger.
Hosted by Ray Suarez. Fidel Castro's 49-year reign is over, and he has handed his brother Raul a difficult job. Cuba's economy is in tatters and the population is hungry for reform. We'll look at where Cuba's been, and where it might be headed.
Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone.
Our Special will be hosted by NPR’s Robert Siegel and NPR’s Melissa Block. NPR will have reporters with the major candidates and at sites in key primary states.
Brian Lehrer hosts this special. Reporters will be in Texas and Ohio and discussion participants will be in studio. We'll hear the results, news and speeches as they happen.
Join us for another Sound Sessions from Smithsonian Folkways on February 24 at 6 p.m. Hosts Sam Litzinger and Jeff Place mix history, biography and music to highlight the bass voice of Paul Robeson.
Public Diplomacy was a critical weapon during the Cold War, but today the US is shooting blanks in the war of ideas.
NPR News will offer live, anchored coverage of the Potomac Primaries 10 PM ET, Tuesday February 12. NPR's Melissa Block and Michele Norris will host this special.
Join Capitol News Connection for this sound-rich hour of investigative journalism, as reporters "imagine" the realities of change in Washington.
Residents in 24 states head to the polls on Feb. 5. Tune in to WAMU 88.5 special coverage 8 p.m. EST.
NPR News will provide live, anchored coverage of the address as well as the Democratic response.
Neal Conan will feature in-depth analysis of the New Hampshire primaries, with a look ahead to Super Tuesday on February 5, 2008.
We'll travel to Sudan to better understand how and why America is working with the UN to support a peacekeeping force in the war-torn region of Darfur; and to Geneva, to examine the first year of the UN's Human Rights Council and the reasons why the US decided not to seek a Council seat.
Hosted by John Hockenberry and guided by an outstanding panel of advisors, the documentaries and features explore not only the science of genetics, but its ethical, social and legal implications. The series — produced by SoundVision Productions and distributed by National Public Radio — has met with wide acclaim and won many prestigious awards.
Join Sam Litzinger and Smithsonian Folkways archivist Jeff Place for Sound Sessions from Smithsonian Folkways
Live updates on the days top international stories with multiple inserts from BBC reporters in the field in Iowa.
Neal Conan will feature in-depth analysis of the Iowa Caucus results.
NPR's Robert Siegel and Michel Martin will host live special coverage of the New Hampshire Primaries from Washington, DC.
NPR's Robert Siegel will host live special coverage of the Iowa Caucuses from Washington, DC.
NPR News will produce taped special coverage of the ABC/WMUR Presidential debates in New Hampshire. Our coverage will be hosted by NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving with Political Editor Ken Rudin.
Join The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker for a special New Year's Day (or, rather, evening) program.
Boulder, Colorado native sons The Wood Brothers come to etown this week. They join forces to share the musical craft they've honed in their careers with Medeski, Martin and Wood and King Johnson. The etown audience is treated to their unique collaboration—a rootsy and genre-bending blend of blues, folk, and rock.
Take a two-hour trip to Music City, U.S.A. as we hit the high-class and the low-class joints.
Count down, sing along, and dance the night away with live music from parties coast to coast.
With the world facing possibly its worst financial crisis since the 1920, Andrew Neil is joined by a panel of international bankers and decision makers for a live debate on the global economy.
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