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What are the 5 songs public radio can’t stop playing? Download 5 songs from the likes of Yeasayer and folk up-and-comers Shovels and Rope, courtesy of KCEP-Power 88, Iowa Public Radio, KHSU, WUMB, and WTMD.

Start your Friday off right with this public radio playlist.

Job: Associate Producer of Digital Media, Fresh Air

Internet friends: I’m leaving Fresh Air at the end of the summer to go to medical school. Here’s the job posting for my gig. -Mel

Update: If you’d like, you can continue to follow me @mkramer or here on Tumblr. If you’re curious about what the job entails, watch this video.

Carl Kasell reading Goodnight Moon. That is all. (via Wait Wait’s Intern Net)

2012 Fresh Air Roster (current through today)

If you’ve ever thought, ‘Hmm, what was on Fresh Air back in February?’ here’s a Google doc I created to help you browse/peruse/find something new. And here’s 2011 and 2010, too.

A pledge drive video from KPCC.

People looking for jobs in public TV/radio

If you’re on Twitter, track the hashtags #pubjobs #pubmedia #nprjobs — I keep seeing a ton of positions mentioned with these hashtags — and then you don’t have to wade through all of the job sites yourself.

Happy Birthday Public Radio Broadcasting: On January 13, 1910, the first public radio broadcast aired, transmitting a live performance from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

1966 Metropolitan Opera House New York City (by RetroSnapshots)

iamcharlotteaddams:

In honor of National Radio Day: the list of my top 10 Public Radio Programs that was in my short-lived (read: two issue) high school zine. Still pretty accurate. (Note: ranking is basically random past #3)

1. Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me (DUH)
2. This American Life (close second)
3. A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison Keillor, you complete me)
4. Says You!
5. [American] Radio Works
6. Studio 360
7. Selected Shorts
8. Fresh Air
9. Anything Jay Allison does (kind of a cop out, but the man is a public radio producin’ genius and hotwired into my soul)
10. City Arts and Lectures

Also Radiolab (don’t know how that got left off the original list. Oops), and let’s just go ahead and say every single program on KQED’s schedule.

Public radio is the business, y’all.

I totally forgot about National Radio Day. (It was Saturday.) We are honored to be #8 on your list. (Very nice penmanship.) 

Jess Goodell enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school as a mechanic, but when the Mortuary Affairs unit was recruiting officers to go to Iraq in 2004, she volunteered immediately.

Her platoon was tasked with recovering and processing the remains of fallen soldiers.

Goodell talks with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross today about her new memoir “Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq.” In the book Goodell shares her experiences in the Mortuary Affairs Unit and why her job never got easier with time or proficiency.

Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, in case you don’t know them, are not only tuneful and hilarious, they’re also very touching and truly literate. Just watch that video and tell me you weren’t brought to tears.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews two new DVD releases — The Mikado and Topsy-Turvy — on today’s Fresh Air that are indispensable to Gilbert and Sullivan aficionados. INDISPENSABLE I SAY!

Now sing along with me:

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,

I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical

From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;

I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,

I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news,

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

That’s author Jim Shepard and now I feel dumb for not knowing him because this fella was awarded the Story Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Award while I sit here playing Angry Birds and noodling around with Tumblr. *hangs head in shame*

ANYWAY, Shepard is on today’s Fresh Air talking about his newest collection of short stories, “You Think That’s Bad.” They are pretty interesting, because he examines an array of typically diverse subjects and characters. There’s an African-American operations specialist from the military, a British woman who goes exploring in Iran in the 1930s, a Japanese filmmaker from the 1950s and a fifteenth century French nobleman who happens to be a serial killer. I repeat, a fifteenth century French nobleman who happens to be a serial killer.

Jim Shepard’s latest short story collection, “You Think That’s Bad,” features a diverse array of protagonists and subjects. Shepard explains why he tries to write what he specifically doesn’t know — instead of what he does — on today’s Fresh Air.

TdoubleB note: As you alllll know, I’m tumbling for Mel while she’s off sipping fruity drinks with little umbrellas stuck in them. I have no idea who Jim Shepard is or what this book is about BUT I urge you to listen because if Fresh Air is talking to him, then by janky this fella must be interesting. They talk to all the cool folks.

Anonymous asked: Will you please repost the list of all the other NPR tumblrs? I can't find it in your archives. Cheers!

This list of public media-related Tumblrs was curated by Teresa Gorman, who runs the NewsHour Tumblr. If there are any missing please let me know (mkramer AT whyy DOT org) and I’ll add.

• American Routes: http://americanroutes.tumblr.com/
• American Public Media: http://americanpublicmedia.tumblr.com/

• Beyond Broadcast: http://beyond-broadcast.tumblr.com/
• Bob Edwards: http://bobedwardsradio.tumblr.com/
• Forum Network: http://forum-network.tumblr.com/
• How To Do Everything: http://howtodoeverything.org/
• KPCC: http://kpcc.tumblr.com/
• KUSP Monterey Bay Public Media: http://kusp.tumblr.com/
• Mountain Lake PBS: http://mountainlake.tumblr.com/

• MPBNtech: http://mpbntech.tumblr.com/
• MPBNphoto: http://mpbnphoto.tumblr.com/
• National Center for Media Engagement: http://mediaengage.tumblr.com/
• New Hampshire Public Television: http://nhpublictv.tumblr.com/
• NPR: http://npr.tumblr.com/
• NPR Digital Services: http://nprdigitalsvcs.tumblr.com/
• NPR Fresh Air: http://nprfreshair.tumblr.com/
• NPR Music; http://nprmusic.tumblr.com
• On Being: http://blog.onbeing.org/
• On Point With Tom Ashbrook: http://npronpoint.tumblr.com/
• PBS NewsHour: http://newshour.tumblr.com/
• PRI Arts: http://pri-arts.tumblr.com/
• PRI’s The World: http://pritheworld.tumblr.com/
• PRX: http://prx.tumblr.com/
• Public Media Camp WEST: http://pubcamp.tumblr.com/
• Public Radio International: http://publicradiointernational.tumblr.com/
• Radiolab: http://wnycradiolab.tumblr.com/
• Shut Up Weirdo! http://shutupweirdo.com/
• Thirteen NY: http://thirteenny.tumblr.com/
• WGBHLab: http://wgbhlab.tumblr.com/
• Wisconsin Life (Wisconsin Public Radio): http://wilife.tumblr.com/
• WNYC: http://wnyc.tumblr.com/
• WOSU Election 2010: http://wosunews.tumblr.com/
• 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/