Dead Stop
Morning Edition heads out on a special summer road trip with Dead Stop: Famous Final Resting Places of Americans Great and Small. The series takes listeners to strange, funny, historic or otherwise...
View ArticleSummer Reading Lists
Beat the heat this summer with a host of reading selections! Summer Books Seeking selections to take to the beach, the lake, or to curl up with for an escape at home this summer? NPR Books shares the...
View ArticleSTDs
STD doesnt always stand for what you may think. In this case it means Sovereign Transmitted Debts. And in the video here the cure is ContagionEx. Its not often you can laugh about the looming threat of...
View ArticleCavell Trio Live in the Studio
Its not often Alabama Public Radio has live musical guests in the studio, but today is a rare treat! Today you can hear the Clavell Trio as they perform perform movements of the Rudolf Maros Serenata....
View ArticleA Nation of Meat Eaters
With July 4th just around the corner, you may be getting your grill ready. Morning Edition has declared this week Meat Week and has already run stories asking how much is too much and researching the...
View ArticleNPR in the Funny Pages
This week, cartoonist Stephan Pastis had some fun with NPR in his popular daily strip Pearls Before Swine. Check out Monday and Tuesdays comics here:
View ArticleNPR's Cities Project
Urbanization has become a buzzword of the times, as more than half of the worlds population now lives in urban areas. In the United States, its more than 80-percent. There is an increasing awareness of...
View ArticleNPR Making Some Foreign Correspondent Changes
NPR has long been dedicated to foreign news coverage . In recent years, when most news organizations were cutting back their foreign news operations, NPR has been dramatically expanding theirs. As an...
View ArticleAPR News Team
In Tuscaloosa this morning we awoke to horrible news. Youve probably all heard by now that there was a shooting here that left 17 people injured. Of course, we were all asking ourselves a lot of...
View ArticleAPR's New Website
We at Alabama Public Radio are really proud of our new website. A lot of people put in quite a bit of work to get it ready, but none more than Eva Lynch. You probably do not know her name because she...
View ArticleThe Best of The Best
The Alabama Public Radio news team traveled to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. last week to collect a national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society for Professional Journalists . APR News...
View ArticleWhere am I?
Maybe youre in your desk chair. Youre in your office. Youre in Mobile, or Florence, or Tuscaloosa, Montgomery. Youre on planet Earth. But where are you, really? Radiolab is going to try to find out. If...
View ArticleHelp Pick an NPR Election Button
Help NPR pick which Election Button to print by voting by August 3 rd . There are six cool choices to pick from. But hurry! Voting ends tomorrow.
View ArticleSWEET Land of Liberty
NPR is taking a cross-country tour of candies from around the U.S., sampling hometown sweets that deliver a nostalgic sugar rush. America loves its candy! The tops three selling candies in the USA are...
View ArticleFresh Air's 25th Year
This year marks Fresh Air 's 25th anniversary as a national NPR show. Of course, there are celebrations. But Terry Gross - famed for the questions she asks - has found herself answering more than a few...
View ArticleWhat's Inside an NPR Reporter's Suitcase?
Have you ever wondered what an NPR reporter packs in their suitcase? Here's your chance to look. Two pictures give us a peek. The first picture show us the professional tools of the trade: Reporter's...
View ArticleFirst and Main
As candidates ramp up their campaigns for November's presidential election, swing states may determine the outcome. In the First And Main series , Morning Edition hosts travel to communities in...
View ArticleWinning NPR Buttons
NPR asked for help in choosing designs for a new series of election-themed buttons, and the winning designs arrived. Here are the top three vote-getters and the 2012 NPR Election Buttons. We've got a...
View ArticleAPR will be offering Listen Magazine
As one of its Fall thank you gifts, Alabama Public Radio will be offering the magazine Listen: Life with Classical Music . for a contribution of $5 per month or more. Listen: Life with Classical Music...
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