Program Highlights
Find out what's coming up on some of your favorite public radio programs and what specials we're airing this week.
Friday - 5/11
7 pm: FROM THE TOP
This week, From the Top comes to you from the National Educators Association Annual Meeting at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, Illinois where you'll hear a 17-year-old violist play the music of William Walton, an 18-year-old baritone sing from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughn Williams, and scenes from Stravinksy's "The Soldier's Tale" performed by teenagers from Chicago, and one very cool teacher.
8 pm: SYMPHONYCAST
There is nothing like the feeling of escaping winter and landing in a tropical location. In his own way, Beethoven also knew that feeling so it’s only appropriate that the Cleveland Orchestra feature his vacation oeuvre during their winter residency in Miami.
Saturday - 5/12 
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week Lynne is out of the studio and into the world of honeybees with bee researcher Marla Spivak. Travel & Leisure Magazine's Peter Jon Lindberg has unearthed good food in unlikely places in Las Vegas and British horticulturalist Jekka McVicar brings us her pick of unusual culinary herbs to grow in your back yard.
1 pm: MARKETPLACE MONEY
This week on Marketplace Money, like most of America, we have student debt on the brain. On average, Americans leave college with more than $25,000 in student loan debt... some have even accumulated many times that amount. The massive volume of debt is weighing down on an entire generation, so we sit down with Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich to discuss how the nation moves forward despite being $1 trillion in the hole for our degrees. A lot of recent grad could use a get-rich-quick scheme... speaking of which, Senior Financial Correspondent Bob Moon lets us in on how to get a slice of the purported $100 billion Facebook IPO
3 pm: RADIOLAB – "Games"
A good game -- whether it's a pro football playoff, or a family showdown on the kitchen table -- can make you feel, at least for a little while, like your whole life hangs in the balance. This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert wonder why we get so invested in something so trivial. What is it about games that make them feel so pivotal?
4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – "The Psychopath Test"
Recently we heard about this test that could determine if someone was a psychopath. So, naturally, our staff decided to take it. This week we hear the results. Plus Jon Ronson asks the question: is this man a psychopath?
6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guest, road-tested Texas troubadour Joe Ely, the King of Newgrass, Sam Bush, and Southern noir songstress Lera Lynn. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Sunday - 5/13
7 am: BEING - "The Last Quiet Places"
Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He's given his life over to preserving silence in the world's quietest places. He defines silence as presence, and not an absence of sound but an absence of noise. Silence, he says, is "the think tank of the soul."
11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guest, road-tested Texas troubadour Joe Ely, the King of Newgrass, Sam Bush, and Southern noir songstress Lera Lynn. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
6 pm: RADIOLAB - "Games"
A good game -- whether it's a pro football playoff, or a family showdown on the kitchen table -- can make you feel, at least for a little while, like your whole life hangs in the balance. This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert wonder why we get so invested in something so trivial. What is it about games that make them feel so pivotal?
9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE - "The Psychopath Test"
Recently we heard about this test that could determine if someone was a psychopath. So, naturally, our staff decided to take it. This week we hear the results. Plus Jon Ronson asks the question: is this man a psychopath?
