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Full Week - Tuesday

Monday
05/21/12

Tuesday
05/22/12

Wednesday
05/23/12

Thursday
05/24/12

Friday
05/25/12

Saturday
05/26/12

Sunday
05/27/12

12:00 am

BBC World Service
A collection of various shows from the BBC covering a range of news, talk, sports, drama, science and other programming.

Metallic Onslaught
Joe Wyatt

AfroPop Worldwide
Hosted By: Georges Collinet
"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.

12:30 am

1:00 am

Putumayo World Music Hour
Hosted By: Dan Storper & Rosalie Howarth
Hosted by Putumayo's CEO and Founder Dan Storper and KFOG personality Rosalie Howarth, the Putumayo World Music Hour is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures.

1:30 am

2:00 am

BBC World Service
A collection of various shows from the BBC covering a range of news, talk, sports, drama, science and other programming.

Blues Before Sunrise
with Steve Cushing
Blues Before Sunrise is the Blues Heritage showcase. Each Saturday night this Chicago-based, public radio program explores, preserves, and popularizes the various eras and genre of Blues Heritage. The focus of the program is in the first fifty years of recorded Blues - from Mamie Smith's CRAZY BLUES, the very first Blues record, recorded in August of 1920, to approximately 1970.

2:30 am

3:00 am

3:30 am

4:00 am

4:30 am

5:00 am

Morning Edition

Hosted By: Ren�e Montagne and Steve Inskeep

5:30 am

6:00 am

Inside Europe
Inside Europe is a one hour weekly news magazine that explores the topical issues shaping the continent. It includes a European newscast, interviews with newsmakers and personalities, background features and cultural reports from correspondents throughout the region. It is produced with support from the European Commission.

6:30 am

7:00 am

Only A Game
Hosted by Bill Littlefield
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.

Gospel Outreach
Patti Blue

7:30 am

8:00 am

Weekend Edition
Hosted by Scott Simon
Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories.

8:30 am

9:00 am

Democracy Now
Hosted by Amy Goodman
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 300 stations in North America.
The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City's Chinatown

Weekend Edition
Rachel Martin
Weekend Edition Sunday combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features, appealing to the curious and eclectic. Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The highlight for many listeners is the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.

9:30 am

10:00 am

CarTalk
Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Imagine the Marx Brothers answering questions about automobiles. Picture Monty Python trying to imitate car noises. Think of A.J. Foyt telling someone how to open the car hood. Mix it all up, throw in a little Dr. Ruth and a little Smothers Brothers, and you've got Car Talk, NPR's Peabody Award-winning radio program heard by more than 3 million listeners each week.

10:30 am

11:00 am

World Cafe
Hosted by David Dye
World Cafe plays music that many public radio listeners listen to and enjoy. David Dye plays quality music. Rock 'n' roll, R&B, folk, reggae, world, a little jazz now and then. He plays Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Damien Rice, Richard Thompson, kd lang, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Dr. John, Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, and others. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and a great record collection.

Whad'Ya Know?
Michael Feldman
Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? is a two-hour comedy/quiz/interview show distributed by PRI, Public Radio International. Currently broadcast on 300+ stations across the United States, the program reaches more than 1.3 million listeners every week.

This American Life
Ira Glass
Built around the innovative personal vision of host Ira Glass, "This American Life," quite literally, pioneered a new kind of radio storytelling. The weekly program explores a theme � fiascos, conventions, the job that takes over your life � through a playful mix of radio monologues, mini-documentaries, "found tape," short fiction and unusual music. The stories presented are engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing, bittersweet. Glass and his staff have an unusual knack for finding writers and performers whose work hasn't been heard on radio, and producing their stories alongside his own disarming commentary in a way that listeners praise as "riveting," "mesmerizing."

11:30 am

12:00 pm

12:30 pm

1:00 pm

Fresh Air
Hosted by Terry Gross
Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.

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Peter Sagal
For a wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers, listen no further than Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!, the oddly informative news quiz from NPR.

During each fast-paced, irreverent show, host Peter Sagal leads what might be characterized as the news Olympics. Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightening 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.

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Peter Sagal
For a wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers, listen no further than Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!, the oddly informative news quiz from NPR.

During each fast-paced, irreverent show, host Peter Sagal leads what might be characterized as the news Olympics. Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightening 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.

1:30 pm

2:00 pm

Talk of the Nation
Hosted by: Neal Conan
Talk of the Nation links the headlines with what's on people's minds, providing a springboard for listeners and experts to exchange ideas and pose critical questions about major events in the news and the world around them. 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.

Talk of the Nation Science Friday
Hosted by Ira Flatow
Each 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, and listeners around the world, who become part of the conversation by calling 1-800-989-TALK.

Only A Game
with Bill Littlefield
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.

Etown
Nick and Helen Forster
E-Town is an exciting weekly radio broadcast. Like old-time radio variety shows, every E-Town show is taped in front of a live audience and features performances from many of today's top musical artists as well as conversation and information about our communities and our environment.

2:30 pm

3:00 pm

Living on Earth
Steve Curwood
'LIVING ON EARTH'
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Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world.

"Living on Earth" presents riveting features and commentary on everything from culture, economics and technology to health, law, food and transportation. It covers topics from the small challenges of everyday life to the future state of the environment and the health and well-being of the world's inhabitants.

Mountain Stage
with Larry Groce
A two-hour music show taped before a live audience, usually in the Cultural Center Auditorium in Charleston, West Virginia, although it travels to other venues in the United States and Canada several times each year. It has been on the air since 1983. Host Larry Groce's philosophy is that all music is related, so the program showcases very diverse music, from the traditional to the brand new, from roots music to jazz.

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

All Things Considered
Melissa Block, Michele Norris, and Robert Siegel

Says You!
Richard Sher

4:30 pm

Counterspin
Hosted By: Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart
CounterSpin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial.

5:00 pm

All Things Considered
Hosted By: Guy Raz

5:30 pm

6:00 pm

Marketplace
with Kai Ryssdal
Award-winning Marketplace is public radio's daily magazine on business and economics news "for the rest of us." The 30-minute program � with an irreverent reporting style all its own � covers listeners from wallet to Wall Street.

6:30 pm

Free Speech Radio News
with Dorian Merina
FSRN produces a half hour newscast each weekday from Pacifica network stations KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles, a station in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the press room on Capitol Hill.

Hosted by Aura Bogado, the newscast relies on over two hundred freelance reporters, "on every continent except Antarctica", to bring you the news behind the news.

7:00 pm

Alternative Radio
with David Barsamian
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program which provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Established in 1986, AR is dedicated to the founding principles of public broadcasting, which urge that programming serve as "a forum for controversy and debate," be diverse and "provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard."

Technation
with Dr. Moria Gunn
Labeled the "Grand Dame of Tech Talk" by Wired Magazine, Dr. Moira Gunn is best known as the host of National Public Radio's TechNation. We developed Dr. Gunn's mark to reflect the rich tapestry of science, biotech and technology minds that every week make TechNation a must-listen radio event.

Download the Five Minutes commentary by Moira each week here: http://www.weos.org/technation/5min02.mp2

Out of Bounds
Tish Pearlman
Out of Bounds features intimate 30 minute interviews with visionaries: people living, working and thinking outside the mainstream. The mission of Out of Bounds is to move beyond the "disrespectful ranting" of current popular radio, and to forge understanding among people of diverse backgrounds through thoughtful, in-depth conversations that educate and enlighten. This forum features well-known (Laurie Anderson, Janis Ian, Howard Zinn) as well as under-represented members of the Fingerlakes community, and beyond.

The Tavis Smiley Show
Tavis Smiley
The Tavis Smiley Show is a high-energy exchange of views, information, and insight hosted by Tavis Smiley. The two-hour weekly show offers a unique blend of news and newsmakers in expanded conversations, along with feature reports and regular commentators Cornel West, Connie Rice, J.C. Watts, Omar Wasow, Dr. Ian Smith, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Michael Eric Dyson, Antonio Gonzalez and George Johnson. Each week, the host engages commentators and guests in substantive and provocative discussions on a wide range of topics including: politics, health, finance, sports, technology and pop culture. An insightful exploration of the issues that matter from fresh, diverse points of view is the show's hallmark.

American Routes
with Nick Spitzer
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music -- 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. The show explores the shared musicall and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music...and how they are distinguished.

Snap Judgment
Glynn Washington
Snap Judgment tells intriguing stories about extraordinary and defining events in people's lives. The program's raw, intimate, and musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see a sliver of the world through another's eye. Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington takes listeners on a narrative journey - leaping from one person's frying pan into another person's fire. Deejay-driven musical delivery, paired with lush sound design, drops listeners into the very heart of what matters. Snap Judgment's fast-paced (sometimes dark, sometimes playful) narrative highlights people from across the globe who put everything on the line. Glynn Washington explains, "It's storytelling... with a beat."

7:30 pm

51%
Susan Barnett
Over half the people in the world are women. What women do affects us all. Now, there's a radio program that takes a serious and intelligent look on society's impact on women and their impact on society. 51% is a weekly half-hour of illuminating features and interviews focusing on issues of particular concern to women.

8:00 pm

The Tavis Smiley Show
Tavis Smiley
The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI is a high-energy exchange of views, information, and insight hosted by Tavis Smiley. The two-hour weekly show offers a unique blend of news and newsmakers in expanded conversations, along with feature reports and regular commentators Cornel West, Connie Rice, J.C. Watts, Omar Wasow, Dr. Ian Smith, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Michael Eric Dyson, Antonio Gonzalez and George Johnson. Each week, the host engages commentators and guests in substantive and provocative discussions on a wide range of topics including: politics, health, finance, sports, technology and pop culture. An insightful exploration of the issues that matter from fresh, diverse points of view is the show's hallmark.

Grateful Dead Hour
Hosted By: David Gans
David Gans thinks he has the best job in the world. "I'm one of the luckiest people I know," he says. "Not only am I paid to make Grateful Dead tapes, but my commute is down the stairs. I think I'm making out like a bandit. And it's fun."

Gans is the producer and host of The Grateful Dead Hour, a syndicated weekly radio program currently airing on 59 stations across the U.S., including most major markets. The hour-long show features unreleased live material from the Dead's private vaults, but it's a lot more, too. Gans has made it a point to diversify the shows' content, so that listeners can not only add rare, vintage recordings to their collections but get some idea of "where the Dead are coming from," according to Gans.

RadioLab/The Moth Radio Hour
Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich
Radiolab is an experiential investigation that explores themes and ideas through a patchwork of people, sounds, and stories. In each episode, Radiolab experiments with sound and style allowing science to fuse with culture, and information to sound like music.

Hosted by Jad Abumrad with co-host Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is designed for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder; who are curious about the world, but also want to be moved and surprised. Radiolab won a Peabody Award in 2011.

8:30 pm

Latino USA
Maria Hinojosa
Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only nationally distributed English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. Latino influences and contributions continue to have an increasingly important impact on the evolving identity, life, and reality of the U.S. Latino USA acts as a forum for connections and reflects the experience of a changing population from a Latino viewpoint.

The Treatment
with Elvis Mitchell
A "treatment," in Hollywood parlance, is a concise overview of a screenplay. On The Treatment, film critic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the "treatment" to some of the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment.

Each week, Elvis speaks with an amazing array of guests, discussing everything from their inner conflicts to their interior design. With a straightforward style that understates his vast knowledge, Elvis is able to extract insights, issues and inspirations from even the most introverted guests. Conversations on The Treatment are mostly comfortable, sometimes contentious, but always fascinating.

Making Contact
from the National Radio Project
Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news. Showcasing voices and perspectives rarely heard in mainstream media, the show focuses on the human realities of politics and the connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive and creative ways to solve problems.

Counterspin

9:00 pm

World Cafe
with David Dye
World Cafe plays music that many public radio listeners listen to and enjoy. David Dye plays quality music. Rock 'n' roll, R&B, folk, reggae, world, a little jazz now and then. He plays Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Damien Rice, Richard Thompson, kd lang, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Dr. John, Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, and others. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and a great record collection.

Metallic Onslaught
Joe Wyatt

Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
with The Hermit Search Icon

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The sixties. A time of social upheaval. A time when established norms gave way to entirely new ways of thinking. But who cares about THAT?!? The IMPORTANT thing is that the MUSIC was cool. How cool was it? Tune in to the Hermit every Saturday night to tune in, turn on and drop out!

Follow the Hermit the rest of the week at his blog: www.TheHermitRambles.blogspot.com

FLPR Specials
Each week, WEOS presents special programming from a variety of producers and on a variety of topics. Many are tied to special celebrations, such as Black History Month, Summer, and holidays.

9:30 pm

10:00 pm

Echoes
with John Diliberto Search Icon

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Echoes is a daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California. With host John Diliberto, a writer for Billboard, Pulse and other magazines, Echoes brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.

In addition to the many recordings heard on Echoes, we also produce interview features with popular modern music figures such as Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Enya, as well as less well-known known composers such as Dead Can Dance, Steve Roach, and The Orb.Echoes also produces Living Room Concerts, live performances recorded in musician's homes or studios and broadcast on Echoes. Concerts thus far have included Mark Isham, Steve Roach, Patrick O'Hearn, Ottmar Liebert, Michael Brook, Robert Fripp, Nightnoise, R. Carlos Nakai, Ancient Future, Sheila Chandra, Adrian Legg, Michael Hedges and many more.

Whad'Ya Know? with Michael Feldman
Michael Feldman

10:30 pm

11:00 pm

Beale Street Caravan
Hosted by: Darin Dortin and Pat Mitchell
Beale Street Caravan remains the world's most popular Blues radio program. Beale Street Caravan� takes its audience inside exciting live Blues events in Memphis and around the globe. It's the Best in Blues on Beale Street Caravan.

Le Show
Harry Shearer
For over twenty years, audiences have been enjoying Shearer's gift for satire and sketch material on Le Show which got its start in 1983. It ran under various titles before Le Show was selected through the results of a listener contest. Harry, known for his voice work on The Simpsons, writes the sketches and performs all the voices as he romps through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business while providing an eclectic array of music along the way.

11:30 pm

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