The Alpenglow Public Radio Awards!

[alpenglow]

National non-news, domestic (non-CBC/BBC) public radio programs ranked from best to worst:

1. Radio Lab. What is time? Where does morality come from? Why do we sleep? Each week this show asks a simple question and makes fascinating radio out of it. Part science show, part avant-garde documentary. Totally brilliant.

2. This American Life. So

Comments

[loosestrudel]

I've never wanted to punch a public media celebrity more than I want to punch Rick Steves.

[grace_adieu]

I agree about Rick Steves. He is such a dork! But his TV show is pretty good. My mom adores him and bought some of his books (which further proves that he is a dork).
I grew up overhearing Prairie Home Companion. My dad always had it on. We should be older to like it but I even found it interesting when I was 8.

[two_wugs]

Locally, I want to give a special award to "Weekday with Steve Scher." Except on Fridays, when he lets wiser people do most of the talking, Steve regularly reveals himself to be a dumbass of the first water.

[alpenglow]

I agree, he gets on my nerves too. You could do a drinking game with how often he starts a question with some variation on "Give us a sense of..." The Friday panel (and Vaughn Palmer's news from Canada, on Wednesdays) are usually the only worthwhile times to listen to that show.

[book_fairy]

Do they still do The Plant Man? That was my favorite, mostly just b/c of the theme song. :-)

I do rather enjoy the Swing Years and Beyond, though.

[alpenglow]

The Plant Man retired a year or two ago, unfortunately.