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17 unusual facts about NPR


António Guterres

In a 16 February 2007 NPR interview devoted mainly to the plight of Iraqi refugees, he said that this was one of the greatest refugee crisis in the Middle East since 1948.

Diana Buttu

In an NPR interview given early in her tenure as a PLO adviser, Buttu suggested it was the responsibility of the U.S. to solve the problem between Israel and Palestine.

Eric Milton

Due to his poor performance and high contract, NPR of Minnesota called him a bust, ESPN named him to their all-overpaid team, and Sports Illustrated named him as the only pitcher on their all bust team, noting he gave up one home run per 11.9 batters.

From the Top

From the Top’s landmark radio showcase of America’s top young classical musicians with host Christopher O'Riley is distributed by NPR to nearly 250 public radio stations nationwide.

It is best known for its NPR radio and PBS television programs hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley, which celebrate the passion, dedication and personal stories of America's best young classical musicians.

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

Kyla Brettle

Her work has been well received and broadcast internationally on the BBC, Radio New Zealand, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, JoyFM in Ghana, Radio Netherlands, RTHK in Hong Kong, and NPR in the US.

Mark Slackmeyer

After graduating (in Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, where his full name is revealed to be Mark Sheldon Slackmeyer), Mark goes to work for NPR, where he still works today, sometimes referred to as "'Microphone' Mark".

Mechi River

Kosi-Mechi interlinking is part of a NPR 56000 billion River Interlinking Project proposed to Nepal by India.

Meg Meeker

She has appeared on various media programs such as 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and NPR.

Sparkle Hayter

She wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the Nation and Toronto Globe and Mail, was a regular participant on CNN's talk show "CNN & Company" and was also seen on Good Day New York, NPR, CBC, BBC and Paris Premiere.

The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz

The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz was a 1984-85 binaural radio drama series produced by Thomas Lopez and the ZBS Foundation for NPR.

The Dixie Bee-Liners

They have appeared live on BBC Radio Scotland, NPR, the Food Network, and have been featured on radio playlists across the country and world-wide, including regular rotation on Sirius and XM satellite radio.

The Folk Sampler

The Folk Sampler is a nationally syndicated public radio (NPR) show, that showcases folk, blues, & bluegrass music both modern and old.

Vertigogo

Vertigogo has later appeared as backdrop music on the NPR program This American Life.

Walt Bodine

Still broadcasting into his nineties, Bodine hosted the talk radio show The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR, the Kansas City area's NPR member station from 1993 to 2012.

WHRO

WHRV-FM, broadcasting at 89.5 MHz on the FM band, featuring NPR programming (this same frequency previously broadcast under the name WHRO, serving NPR content) in Norfolk, VA


Alan Light

Light then got a spot as music reviewer on radio station WFUV, and serves as music correspondent on NPR show Weekend America.

Andrea Seabrook

She replaced Debbie Elliott, who traded places with Seabrook and moved to becoming NPR's Congressional reporter.

Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia Foundation has been profiled on CNN, NPR, Animal Planet, the BBC, the National Geographic Channel, as well as in print media in several countries.

Artis the Spoonman

In 1994, an NPR's Morning Edition focused on him and his artistic rejection of material values.

Ben Sollee

In 2007, NPR's Morning Edition named Sollee one of the "Top Ten Unknown Artists of the Year".

Benjamin Percy

At a reading of this story at Symphony Space for the NPR radio program Selected Shorts, the editor for the 2006 Best American collection, Ann Patchett, indicated that she considered the story to be the best in the collection.

Bob Edwards

Edwards decided not to remain at NPR as a senior correspondent, and filed only one story in that role (an interview with Bob Dole and other Senate veterans of World War II about the Washington, DC World War II memorial).

Come Back Baby

Pat Donohue (member of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion) covered the song on his 2011 album Nobody's Fault.

Daniel C. Esty

He is a frequent commentator on NPR and has appeared on national TV talk shows such as The Colbert Report, The O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck, to speak on issues of business innovation and the environment.

Edward Wyckoff Williams

His work has also been featured on National Public Radio by NPR's Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan.

F.H. Buckley

Buckley is a senior editor of The American Spectator, and has also published in the Wall Street Journal, the National Post and the New Criterion, and has frequently been a guest on NPR and other talk programs.

Gem Club

The album was well reviewed by music sites and magazines NME, AllMusic, NPR, Pitchfork, Dusted, among others.

George Whitman

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, journalist Gerry Hadden's story on George Whitman, his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, and Shakespeare & Company aired on NPR's The World (a co-production of the BBC, Public Radio International (PRI), and the Boston radio station WGBH).

Glynn Washington

Glynn Washington is the host and executive producer of Snap Judgment, a Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and NPR radio show.

John T. Edge

Edge has been a regular contributor for the weekend edition of NPR's All Things Considered and has appeared on a number of television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef.

Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy also wrote and reported for NPR and Mad Magazine, and was featured in the second episode of Bravo's series Tabloid Wars.

Loren Coleman

He has written on Yeti and Bigfoot expedition sponsor Tom Slick and appeared on NPR discussing the death of Grover Krantz.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Luke Burbank

Burbank spent two months as host of NPR's short-lived morning show The Bryant Park Project, an experiment in alternate programming by the network that aired on 13 public radio stations.

Manoli Wetherell

She has occasionally been portrayed in The Uncanny X-Men as an NPR reporter and technician, starting in the Fall of the Mutants.

Mara Liasson

Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco and worked at Berkeley's KPFA before joining NPR in 1985.

Mei-Ting Sun

Sun has been featured several times on WQXR Classical Radio as part of the “Young Artist Showcase” program and on NPR as part of the “Performance Today” program.

Mike Shuster

Prior to working for NPR, he was a United Nations correspondent for Pacifica News Service where he covered the election of Robert Mugabe in 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Mikhail Trepashkin

However, according to NPR's David Folkenflik, Conde Nast management gave orders to limit circulation of the story.

National Memorial Day Concert

Broadcast live on PBS, NPR, and can also be seen overseas by U.S. military personnel in more than 175 countries and aboard more than 200 U.S. Navy ships at sea on American Forces Network.

National Partnership for Reinventing Government

Toward the end of Clinton’s first term, the task of the NPR became less to “review and recommend” and more to “support agencies in their reinventing goals,” reflected in the change of the senior advisor from Elaine Kamarck to Morley Winograd.

Neal Katyal

NPR, Nina Totenberg's summary of Katyal's efforts, on 2006, September 5.

NPR Playhouse

In 1985 producer/director Roger Rittner produced the acclaimed Adventures of Doc Savage series for NPR Playhouse.

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Red River Radio

Red River Radio (RRR) is affiliated with National Public Radio and broadcasts many popular NPR programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, World Cafe, Car Talk, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and From the Top.

Right Between the Ears

Beginning the late 1980s, however, full-length radio plays were de-emphasized in favor of Saturday Night Live-style comedy sketches, and by 1990 the show became an all-comedy offering, broadcast regularly over KANU-FM, the NPR station licensed to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Robert Trout

In one of Trout's NPR reminiscences, airing July 9, 1999, he admitted that an oft-played recording of his announcing the end of World War II ("my greatest hit, as it were") on August 14, 1945 was actually a fake.

Sandra Mackey

In addition to appearing on NPR, Nightline, BBC, and ABC News with Peter Jennings, Mackey also served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN.

Shoshoni language

A summer Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program (SYLAP), held at the University of Utah's Center for American Indian Languages since 2009 has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition program.

Sound Bytes

The program originally aired on WXXI in Rochester (the region's principal NPR affiliate) and was created by then-WXXI radio vice president Mark Boardman and original host Bob Smith (who still hosts and produces a daily general-interest talk program on WXXI but has not been connected with Sound Bytes since it left that station during the 2001 holiday season).

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

On September 15, 2012, just prior to publication, Reiss was interviewed by NPR staff member Scott Simon.

The Position

The author of the book, Meg Wolitzer, was a guest on NPR's program Fresh Air on May 10, 2005 discussing the book and her life as an author.

The Way We Talk Now

The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air is a collection of essays by Geoffrey Nunberg about the effect of language on contemporary culture.

These Are the Vistas

In November 2009, NPR's All Songs Considered selected the album as one of the 50 "most important" recordings of the decade.

Things We Do

Indigenous was featured on broadcast shows such as NPR's All Things Considered, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Saturday Morningand Austin City Limits.

United Press International Radio Network

Out of that merger came an audio service that at its peak served more than a thousand U.S. radio stations and many foreign clients, including other networks such as NPR, RKO, Britain's Independent Radio News and even CNN in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt, effectively reunited UPI audio with UPITN video.

We Are Smarter Than Me

The project received wide coverage in US media, including such venues as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Newsweek and NPR's radio show "All Things Considered".

WUKY

Owned by the University of Kentucky, it is an Adult Album Alternative (Indie Rock) station that airs over 100 hours of music a week, in addition to programming from NPR, Public Radio International, the BBC, and American Public Media.

Wyoming Public Radio

Some NPR, PRI and BBC World Service programming includes Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, BBC World Service, and many others.