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In reply to the discussion: 50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]Tommy Carcetti
(43,198 posts)37. I'm an NPR baby.
Parents were listening to All Things Considered and Prairie Home Companion before I could even remember.
I can still hum the theme to ATC by heart.
On Sundays, during our family weekly drive to visit our grandparents, we'd usually listen to the reruns of the past night's Prairie Home Companion as well as a couple of BBC shows called My Word and My Music.
I still enjoy listening to NPR. These days I like listening to some of their quiz shows like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me when I run errands on Saturdays. Occasionally when I have a longer drive I'll take in some of their storytelling shows like This American Life.
NPR is far from perfect, but at least it's news in a civilized fashion.
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50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]
mitch96
May 2021
OP
When I used to drive across rural areas, often late at night, I cheered when I found an NPR station.
Hoyt
May 2021
#4
1980. Had a roommate from Minnesota who introduced me to A Prairie Home Companion.
Shrike47
May 2021
#5
KPFA (Pacifica radio) was my go-to station fifty years ago but I slowly migrated to KQED (NPR)...
Brother Buzz
May 2021
#8
If it's "only" fifty years old, I must have started at the very beginning. I still...
LAS14
May 2021
#9
Don't remember when, but a long time ago. Used to drive a lot, and if I could find an...
TreasonousBastard
May 2021
#10
I listened regularly until W when Talk of the Nation devoted a show to cosmetic surgery on Earth Day
tenderfoot
May 2021
#16
In October of 2004 I realized they'd jumped the shark - after decades of listening
Ron Green
May 2021
#32
Started in the early 80s; stopped in the mid 2000s when they swerved right.
lagomorph777
May 2021
#38