Find all your favorite public radio broadcasts: Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me®, Car Talk®, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR® Driveway Moments, Sunday Puzzles, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and more. For A Prairie Home Companion, see Garrison Keillor.
Stories feature the delightful and exotic sounds of birds, plus insightful and informative commentary from bird lovers, bird experts, and, in some cases, the birds themselves! Learn More
Each week, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz presents an on-air quiz to the lucky winner of the previous week’s listener challenge. Now the best, most entertaining segments are gathered on a single collection for you to play along on your commute, in your home, or wherever you want to stretch your mind. Learn More
Hosted by Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, and Glen Weldon
NPR’s popular, high-energy entertainment podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop Culture Carbon Dating” (why some cultural markers age well and others not at all). Learn More
A Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner An AudioFile Best Audiobooks of the Year Selection
A celebration of this anniversary milestone, featuring both new content and some of the most historic and iconic moments in NPR’s first forty years on air. Learn More
The beauty, genius and heroism of the human spirit shines throughout this collection of encounters with exceptional individuals, selected and presented by NPR personalities whose lives have been enriched by a single conversation. Learn More
Krista Tippett; read by Krista Tippett with excerpts from the radio show
The host of the popular weekly program on National Public Radio, Krista Tippett talks about her journey from politics back to religionand a life of conversation. Includes excerpts from radio program. Learn More
StoryCorps recognizes the profound historical importance of capturing the stories of the LGBTQ community and the urgent need for this work to happen now. StoryCorps OutLoud is a multi-year initiative dedicated to recording and preserving LGBTQ stories across America.
OutLoud honors the stories of those who lived before the 1969 Stonewall uprisings, celebrates the lives of LGBTQ youth, and amplifies the voices of those most often excluded from the historical record. The end result is a diverse collection of stories that enriches our nation?s history. Learn More
Edited by Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Mary Jo Gediman; written and read by an ensemble cast
An AudioFile Best Audiobooks of the Year Selection and Earphones Award Winner
Moving and powerful first-person stories explore the beliefs and principles by which Americans live and the universal truths they have learned. Heard on public radio, they offer wisdom, guidance, and inspiration for any and all. Learn More
Hosted by Dave Isay; as told by StoryCorps participants
Celebrating ten years of StoryCorps, this collection reflects the depth and diversity of the over 45,000 interviews in the organization’s archives. Learn More
Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn't see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity. Learn More
From the 1950s through 1997, Louis “Studs” Terkel, bestselling author of Hard Times, Working, The Great War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT Radio in Chicago. This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program was an ideal showcase for his curmudgeonly wit, his maverick opinions, and his genius as an interviewer.
The 48 interviews in this collection, span Terkel’s five decades on radio and encompass a wide range of entertainers, scientists, writers and thinkers, including Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, Bob Woodward, Simone de Beauvoir, and many more. Learn More
NPR’s “oddly informative” news quiz program includes a segment during which celebrity guests answer questions that are way outside their normal area of expertise. The hilarious results always reveal something unexpected. Learn More
Features highlights from the popular “Not My Job” segment of the show, during which celebrity guest contestants answer questions on topics unrelated to their particular area of expertise. Learn More