Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Our resident horticulturist Gerard Lordahl takes calls and shares tips on how to develop your green thumb and tend to your summer garden. We’ll take a look at how various American texts—from the Constitution to presidential speeches to the novels of Ayn Rand—have influenced the American culture wars. Buzz Bissinger talks about raising twin boys, born minutes apart, but living incredibly different lives. And this week’s Please Explain is all about tattoos!

To mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Irene, this episode of State of the Re:Union explores how people in Vermont reacted and responded to the devastation of the floods of 2011.

Quaint storefronts along Main streets, covered bridges over clear streams, cows from dairy farms dotting green valleys: across the ...

NPR’s Scott Simon reports on the world’s top news, features and entertainment to your Saturday morning. 

The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

In honor of Father's Day, Kurt Andersen heads to the rifle range with writer Joel Stein, the author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity. A cab driver bonds with his son over the love of opera. We check in on our rebranding of Canada with the head of ...

Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

For this New Sounds, sample some new music from Holland, featuring JacobTV, the controversial ex-rock musician who has become one of the Continent’s most exciting composers.  His works incorporate the sounds of American mass media and pop culture as well as acoustic instruments.