What do you listen to on NPR?

I listen to Morning Edition every morning. But if you’re looking for a podcast, absolutely try ‘This American Life’ and ‘Planet Money.’ Both have detailed analyses of trends in society. Planet Money, for example, just purchased a small amount of gold with the intention to sell in six months and will be providing regular updates on the gold market and what it means to the economy at large.

It would be easier and shorter to mention what I do not listen to.

I love;

News
Fresh Air
Vox Pop
Hudson River Sampler
Car Talk
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
Fifty-One Percent
Press Club
Morning Edition
Prairie Home Companion
Call-in shows starring local gardeners, birders, astronomers, doctors, pet experts, musicians and politicians
Met Opera live performances
Friday review of week-end stuff to do

My list includes:

Prairie Home Companion
Car Talk
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me
My Word (which is actually re-runs because it’s no longer on in Great Britain)
Says You
Fresh Air
Science Friday – which is the Friday version of Talk of the Nation
BBC News
The Diane Rehm Show

Of those, I know that Science Friday has a podcast because I download it every week.

If I had to pick only one show, which was better than and different from everything else on the radio, it would be Fresh Air.

Thanks for the great answers, guys! Just for the sake of ease, could we limit it to the top 5? The recommendations are great but I can’t listen to everything, haha.

Also, when do you find time to sit down and listen to NPR? It seems like something you have to concentrate on, but not so much that it’s your sole activity. I don’t drive or take public transportation very often (I’m in college and live on campus).

Morning Edition
All Things Considered
The Point
Fresh Air
This American Life
Radio Lab
The Story

When do you find time to sit down and listen to NPR?

Podcasts.

Oh, god… everything.

Our local NPR station just booted the classical music over to a brand new all-Classical station, and now we get NPR all day! Since that happened, the dial in my car hasn’t moved.

Ok, I misspoke, it is actually called On Point. I also like Tell me More.

I listen to it constantly. I especially love Click & Clack, This America Life, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, and the news.

Morning Edition
All Things Considered
The World
Fresh Air
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

I listen mostly to podcasts but check in with our local NPR Station (WBUR) occasionally.

I listen to:
*Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
*Fresh Air
*This American Life
*Radio Lab
Science Friday
Talk of the Nation
Planet Money
*Only A Game
Car Talk
On Point
All Things Considered
Here and Now
Morning Edition
Weekend Edition

(* denotes my favorites)

I also have the NPR News App and NPR Music App for my iPhone. They’re both great.

I’m kind of an NPR addict.

I happened to notice no one has yet mentioned “Marketplace”

@Seek_Kolinahr: Marketplace is ok, but I like Planet Money better for a financial show.

Again, one of the pleasures of living in this sparsely populated but artsy area is listening to all the call-in shows. I recognize many friends and acquaintances, which I love.

@Seek_Kolinahr I listen to Marketplace too. I forgot it.

i don’t listen to NPR but i notice almost everyone mentioned Fresh Air. Will look it all up and give it a listen.

I dont listen to anything in particular. Just turn it on occasionally when im in the car, if a good story is on, i keep it on, if not I change the channel. I must say though, most of the time, I find something interesting. I especially enjoy the BBC segments. Its bad that I need to listen to BBC to actually find out wtf is going on in the world. American news blows…

Car Talk, Says You, Selected Shorts, Morning Edition
A local guy who has an amazing library of old time radio shows

Pretentious liberal blowhards.

@MeinTeil: I haven’t heard that show. What station does it originate from? ~

PLB isn’t the name of the show Hon’

just the content.

I suppose your more a fan of the wonderful news over at faux fox then?

@MeinTeil: Notice the tilde, “Hon’”

@MeinTeil: No “hons” on Fluther, particularly if they are really large guys who eat both quiche and chocolate.

PLBs is a very broad description. What about those who are only pretentious liberals, pretentious blowhards, liberal blowhards, liberals, blowhards, or simply pretentious? NPR is a subtle station and appreciates nuance.

The experts on birding, stamps, coins, gardening, coyotes, arthritis, jazz, celtic music, classical music, opera, local restaurants and culture, and good poems (Writer’s Almanac)

My favorite has no political bias, even though I have tried hard to find it.
StarDate gives quotidian (pretentious word choice, I know) tips on looking up. Tonight, for example, we celebrate an almost full moon and Jupiter.

Of course, the assumption is that the earth is neither flat nor the center of the universe.

Well, it’s Public broadcasting and the content is as varied as the markets the stations serve. Our local evening call-in shows tend to be quite conservative and address the issues facing farmers and ranchers. I wouldn’t expect to hear that in Chicago.
Some of the CBP and NPR syndicated shows might lean toward liberal but that’s what makes it an interesting buffet.
Chrysti the Wordsmith is one of my favorites