5 Songs we love every week and the story of why we love them.

Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Hosted by the legendary journalist Bill Moyers, this weekly series of smart talk and new ideas is aimed at helping listeners make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America’s strongest thinkers. The series continues Moyers’ long-running conversation with the American public by offering a forum to poets, writers, artists, journalists, scientists, philosophers, and leading scholars. It also features Moyers’ hallmark essays on democracy.

AARP’s newest radio production, the 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour, is a weekly feature that highlights a variety of the most relevant issues to the largest generation, with discussion topics ranging from caretaking of elderly parents, to your health, popular culture, and relationships. Hosts Kathy Bernard and Barbara Kline are enthusiastically traveling the same road as the nearly 78 million other boomers while exemplifying the spirit of “living in the boomer moment.” Kline and Bernard are not shy about adding their own insights and understanding to the conversation, and always top it off with a generous dose of great humor and laughter.

"A brilliant idea for a show. It brings out the music in all of us." -Roger Rosenblatt, author and essayist

A Way with Words is a national, lively, hour-long public radio show about language, on the air since 1998. Author/journalist Martha Barnette and linguist/lexicographer Grant Barrett take listener calls about slang, grammar, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well. There are no carriage fees.

When you put one castaway and eight records together in conversation, it’s hard to stop listening. Each week people from all aspects of life are asked the question, if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a listening device and an inexhaustible power source. Desert Island Discs gives the listener a unique entrée into the lives of "ordinary" people living their lives in "extraordinary" ways employing an engaging mixture of curiosity, intelligence and warmth.

The only program on radio today dedicated to the preservation of comparative generational thought.

"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film, including: movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Filmspotting is available on PRX by noon (CST) on Fridays. Promos are available on PRX earlier in the week.

Join Sanguine Fromage for the best in funk, soul, and jazz. UpFront Soul... 120 minutes of soulful sounds to which you may get down!

Science + Culture + History

Art of the Song is a weekly one-hour radio program (1/2 talk, 1/2 music) exploring creativity through the lens of songwriting and music performance.