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zakharov posted:Welcome to the Public Radio thread! This thread is meant for discussion of any show that doesn't have its own thread currently. Right now only This American Life and Serial seem to have their own threads, please correct me if I'm wrong. Radiolab has a thread somewhere. Or maybe had, I haven't seen it in a while.  http://www.freakonomics.com/ Freakonomics started as a book ten years ago and became a radio show five years ago. There was also a movie and more books, but the radio tends to hit most of that stuff as well so listening to the back catalogue can pretty much get your feet wet on everything they cover. The basic premise is that the show hits up economists for solutions or other viewpoints on a variety of (often) social issues. You might think that sounds a bit like sociology and you wouldn't be alone in that opinion, but it doesn't make it uninteresting. It is bi-weekly and hosted by Stephen Dubner (a journalist) who often talks to Steven Levitt (University of Chicago economics professor). Dubner is an effective host and Levitt doesn't mind expressing a minority opinion to get the conversation going. They have strayed from a regular format recently as they tried a game show and spent a couple of episodes asking somewhat notable people the same series of questions.  http://www.prairiehome.org/ The largest assembly of white people outside of a Klan rally, The Prairie Home Companion has been going for about 40 years. How much you like it probably depends on how much you like old time radio programs and how familiar you are with small towns in Minnesota. They get a variety of musical guests, Garrison Keillor tells you some outlandish tale about a quiet little town called Lake Wobegon, and there's some ads for fake products. There was also a movie made of this which is tragically bad.
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You don't like getting advice on how to fix your Dodge from beyond the grave? NPR has some good stuff they keep just to the web too, like the History Department http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/02/03/379052827/reviving-the-lost-art-of-log-rolling Sadly missing is this classic Canadian tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8 (I hope that isn't region locked)
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