On May 3, 1971, All Things Considered debuted on 90 public radio stations. In the five decades since, almost everything about the program has changed, from the hosts, producers, editors and reporters to the length of the program, the equipment used and even the audience.
However there is one thing that remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, and Juana Summers. In 1977, ATC expanded to seven days a week with a one-hour show on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Radio calls exchanged between first responders when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed show a coordinated response. But distress calls are not optimized for alerting construction crews.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Garrard Conley about his new novel All the World Beside.
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Is the much-hyped sequel to Renaissance a country album? In many ways, yes — but it's also a sprawling collage of disparate references, while remaining a Beyoncé album at its heart.
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From ballet flats to big pants to bows and rosettes, fashion trends can befuddle those who care, and annoy those who don't. But knowledge is power, and there is a logic to the trend cycle.
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Workers at a racetrack in North Carolina have discovered a hidden space under the grand stand that some say was once a moonshine cave.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the Baltimore Key Bridge which collapsed after being hit by a ship early Tuesday morning.
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Attorneys for the California Bar say their case against Trump lawyer John Eastman was about fighting a threat to democracy.
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Evan Gershkovich, the journalist who's been detained in Russia for a year, has become a pawn in a larger game of prisoner swaps. The U.S. has created a special office to deal with hostage diplomacy.
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Last spring, some elementary school students in Santa Cruz found an exposed bone in a creek bed, which turned out to be an ancient fossil – it just went on display.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is the only sitting Black governor and the third ever elected in the U.S. Moore is described as a "rising star" in the Democratic party without spending much time in office.