Listen to Public Radio and NPR on the Internet
Where to Find LIve Streaming Public Radio programs on the Web. Listen to Public Radio and NPR via Your Computer, Your PDA, or Your Smart Phone!

How to Listen to Any Program on Public Radio and NPR at Almost Any Time... On Your Computer!

There are dozens and dozens of wonderfully informative and/or entertaining programs being broadcast on Public Radio. Most of the time we LISTEN to these programs on our radio... often while driving somewhere in our cars. Programs such as "A Prairie Home Companion," "Fresh Air," "From the Top," "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz," "This American Life," "Car Talk," "Says You!," "All Things Considered", and others have helped many folks thoroughly enjoy what otherwise might be a tedious drive.

However, with the advent of the Internet, more and more people are listening to NPR programming via their computers, PDA's and even some Smart Phones.

Here's how to easily find NPR programs you want to hear when you want to hear them

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A Prairie Home Companion "... There has been plenty of adventure in the past 30-plus years — broadcasts from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland and almost every one of the 50 states; wonderful performers, little-known and world-renowned; standing ovations and stares of bewilderment. We've missed planes, coped with lost luggage, dodged swooping bats and hungry mosquitoes, plodded through blizzards, and flown by the seat of our pants. Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by more than 4 million listeners each week on some 590 public radio stations, and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East...."

NPR: National Public Radio Homepage "... an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of 26 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 860 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations. Each NPR Member Station serves local listeners with a distinctive combination of national and local programming. With original online content and audio streaming, NPR.org offers hourly newscasts, special features and ten years of archived audio and information...."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross "... the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week nearly 4.5 million people tune in to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.
The one-hour program features Terry Gross' in-depth interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers...."

Here and Now "... In a typical week, the show will cover not only all the big news stories, but also the stories behind the stories, or some of the less crucial but equally intriguing things happening in the world. Did I say typical? In fact, there’s nothing typical about it...."

On Point with Tom Ashbrook "...