Weekend Edition Saturday

Veteran reporter and author Scott Simon hosts this NPR magazine. A refreshing combination of news, analysis, and riveting features. Wrap-ups and perspectives on the week's events, as well as a taste of what makes weekends special like sports, gardening, and entertainment.

Car Talk

Car Talk at 9:00 a.m.

Brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi dispense expert car advice to callers in the broad accents of their native East Cambridge neighborhood. This irreverent program is about more than just automotive repair—each call is handled with spirited comments along with sound advice.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! at 10:00 a.m.

For those with an ear for truth that is stranger than fiction. Wacky politicians, strange research studies and the normal behavior of the rich, famous and average are staple material. Behind-the-scenes public radio journalistic wit is exposed in mind-stretching play.

This American Life

This American Life at 11:00 a.m.

Ira Glass hosts riveting explorations of a theme—fiascos, sentencing, conventions—through a mix of radio monologues, mini-documentaries, "found tape," original fiction, and non-fiction. The stories are engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing and bittersweet.

On the Media

On the Media at 6:00 p.m.

A chronicle of social change using media as a lens to look at who we are and how we see ourselves. A companion to the daily doses of news, entertainment, and e-mail that overwhelm us—this is a radio program, a social deconstruction, a scan of the information culture age.

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