Daily Schedule

On today’s show: we’ll take a look at how the ways corporations focus on their shareholders can do damage to their business and to themselves. We’ll investigate how genetically modified seeds have been linked to an epidemic of farmer suicides in India. Filmmaker Keith Miller tells the story behind making his award-winning film “Welcome to Pine Hill." Please Explain is all about the Human Microbiome Projects and how the 100 trillion good bacteria in your body work to keep you healthy.

The Ozarks have long been an isolated place—steep mountains break up the landscape into hills and hollows, making each little town its own microcosm.  Outsiders might know little beyond the stereotypical hillbillies, generations of poverty, and an infamous meth problem, one of the worst in the country. But people in ...

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.

Kurt Andersen talks with Timur Bekmambetov, director of a new movie that shows us Abraham Lincoln as we never knew him: vampire hunter. The playwright Eve Ensler and Michigan politicians stage The Vagina Monologues on the steps of the state capitol. And novelist Glen Duncan explains why werewolves show us ...

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, English progressive-folk musician Jim Moray performs in our studio.  Moray promises to take us on a folk adventure, riding the wave of the English folk resurgence, via guitar and piano.  Also, listen to re-imagined folk songs from the Imaginary Village collection and Irish repertoire with Afro-Brazilian grooves from James Shipp’s Nós Novo.