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Since 1980, KPBX has greatly enhanced Spokane’s role as a cultural center for our region.Spokane Public Radio has a weekly audience of over 65,000 listeners who reside in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, northern Oregon, western Montana, and...

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Weekend All Things Considered

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Saturday Cafe

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Weekend Break

Podcasts

Every week we delve behind the headlines to find out how news events affect people's everyday lives. Whatever the subject and wherever we're reporting from, our stories are of real human interest.

The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service

The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.

Technological and digital news from around the world.

Explorations in the world of science.

Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest...

From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world. Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers...

The biggest financial stories and why they matter to us all.

Shows

All Things Considered

All Things Considered

All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted locally by KNKX's Emil Moffatt.

Bookshelf (KPBX)

Bookshelf (KPBX)

Fascinatin' Rhythm

Fascinatin' Rhythm

Fascinatin' Rhythm presents of popular American music from Stephen Foster to Stephen Sondheim, in the context of their relationship to American history. Every week, host Michael Lasser offers a rich mix of singers, songwriters and songs to explore the...

Front Porch Bluegrass

Front Porch Bluegrass

The show focuses on the wide spectrum of bluegrass music from the early days of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers, to the recent sounds of Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss and Tony Rice.

Folk musician Maher shares the music of local and national folk artists on his program.

Morning Classical (KPBX)

Morning Classical (KPBX)

Morning Edition

Morning Edition

A bi-coastal, 24-hour news operation, Morning Edition is hosted locally by Kirsten Kendrick and nationally by Steve Inskeep, Leila Fadel, Michel Martin and A Martínez. These hosts often get out from behind the anchor desk and travel around the world...

Bob Glatzer, Dan Webster and Mary Pat Treuthart review movies (and each others' tastes) in a roundtable discussion each week from the KSFC studios.

Nacho Celtic Hour

Nacho Celtic Hour

This is a weekly Sunday afternoon radio variety program of folk and kids' music with Spokane musician Carlos Alden. You are most likely to tune in to traditional and non-traditional Celtic selections, but you might stumble into a program of nineteenth...

During this weekly, one-hour program, host Jim Svejda reviews a wide variety of classical recordings and highlights renown classical artists. Svejda is also the author of, what he calls, "an irreverent, selective and highly opinionated recordings...

Take Five (SPR)

Take Five (SPR)

The Cultural Frontline

The Cultural Frontline

The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

Weekend All Things Considered

Weekend All Things Considered

Just because it's the weekend doesn't mean you can't keep up with current affairs. Relax with a mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features.