Thistle and Shamrock is still on the air and you can listen to it stream over the Internet. Here's a link to the program page.

There are so many good programs. My few listed earlier neglected one that sometimes really grabs me, To the Best of Our Knowledge. I don't always love it, it depends on the subject, because they do one topic each program. It can really give some good in-depth information.

My favorites for pure entertainment are Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (as close as we'll ever come to "My Word,") and Car Talk. On the Media is fascinating.

I'm beginning to warm to Fair Game, though the woman who hosts it is a bit ditsy. I guess I like more substantial radio personalities. For years on All Things Considered my triumvirate of favorite reporters was Nina Tottenberg, Cokie Roberts, and Linda Wertheimer. They're still there, though Wertheimer's beat has changed and she hosted for a while.

Years ago I used to hear a lot more folk music on the public radio stations in various places. NPR crashed and burned about 25 years ago with a fiscal scandal that made a lot of those programs go away. My favorite radio drama was one called The Mind's Eye. No one does radio drama any more. Does Dick Estelle still read books on Radio Reader? Different markets have different programs. With the Internet, you can poke around and find your favorites again.

SRS