Now Playing

Loading streams...
170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting

All Things Considered

Monday through Friday on News and Talk and News and Classical 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Terry Ward

On May 3, 1971, at 5 p.m., All Things Considered debuted on 90 public radio stations.

In the 40 years 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 Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block. In 1977, ATC expanded to seven days a week with a one-hour show on Saturdays and Sundays, currently hosted by Guy Raz.

During each broadcast, stories and reports come to listeners from NPR reporters and correspondents based throughout the United States and the world. The hosts interview newsmakers and contribute their own reporting. Rounding out the mix are the disparate voices of a variety of commentators, including Sports Commentator Stefen Fastis, Poet Andrei Codrescu and Political Columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne,

All Things Considered has earned many of journalism's highest honors, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.

Genre: 
News/Talk
Composer ID: 
5182a053e1c801268257cd82|5182a050e1c801268257cd81

Pages

Performing Arts
3:09 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Mike Nichols: 'Salesman' By Day, Always An Artist

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Matt Sayles / AP
In the course of his career, director Mike Nichols has won Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, an Oscar and a Grammy.
Credit Brigitte Lacombe for New York Magazine
Andrew Garfield (left) stars opposite Finn Wittrock, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Linda Emond in Mike Nichols' revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Fri March 9, 2012 4:13 pm

Film and theater director Mike Nichols doesn't talk — he sells.

"The producers want us to sell, sell, sell," Nichols tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists."

Read more
Sports
1:00 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Preview To March Madness

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Fri March 9, 2012 4:00 pm

Transcript

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Flip through the channels this weekend and you are bound to see some college students dribbling basketballs. It is March after all. And the final lay-ups, jump shots and dunks are taking place before the madness officially begins next week. NCAA conference championships wrap up on Sunday and then comes the selection of teams for their respective NCAA tournaments. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis joins us now as he does most Fridays. Hi, Stefan.

STEFAN FATSIS, BYLINE: Hey, Robert.

Read more
Energy
1:00 pm
Fri March 9, 2012

Ohio Toughens Regulations On Gas Drillers

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Ohio has announced new regulations for drillers as state officials say the injection of gas-drilling wastewater likely caused a number of small earthquakes.

Planet Money
11:11 am
Fri March 9, 2012

This 14-Year-Old Girl Just Bought A House In Florida

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Chana Joffe-Walt / NPR
Willow Tufano, landlord.
Credit Chana Joffe-Walt / NPR
Willow and her tenants, in front of the house Willow bought with her mother.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Mon March 12, 2012 7:46 am

Meet Willow Tufano, age 14: Lady Gaga fan, animal lover, landlord.

In 2005, when Willow was 7, the housing market was booming. Home prices in some Florida neighborhoods nearly doubled from one month to the next. Her family moved into a big house; her mom became a real estate agent.

But as Willow moved from childhood to adolescence, the market turned, and the neighborhood emptied out. "Everyone is getting foreclosed on here," she says.

Read more
U.S.
3:33 pm
Thu March 8, 2012

House Committee Urges Action On Food Stamp Fraud

Credit Joe Raedle / Getty Images
One USDA official credits the use of plastic benefit cards with helping to reduce federal food stamp fraud. But lawmakers say that isn't enough.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Read more
Winter Songs
2:42 pm
Thu March 8, 2012

Winter Songs: A Family In Limbo Looks To Brandi Carlile

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Courtesy of the artist
Brandi Carlile's song "Dying Day" took on new meaning for a Wisconsin woman hoping to adopt a child from Ethiopia.
Credit Joanna Woodbury
Joanna Woodbury's daughter, Netsanet.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By NPR Staff

Read more
Movies
3:23 pm
Wed March 7, 2012

In 'Mosquita Y Mari,' A Tale Of Self And Community

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Larry Busacca / Getty Images
(From left) Pineda, writer-director Aurora Guerrero and Troncoso pose for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Credit Sundance Film Festival
Fenessa Pineda (left) plays Yolanda, nicknamed "Mosquita," and Venecia Troncoso plays Mari in Mosquita y Mari, a film about the budding love between two Chicana teenagers.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By Nishat Kurwa

The film Mosquita y Mari — the first narrative feature by a Chicana director to screen at the Sundance Film Festival — is both the singular vision of writer-director Aurora Guerrero and a crowdsourced production that could not have been made without multiple communities coming together.

Read more
From Our Listeners
1:00 pm
Wed March 7, 2012

Letters: On Belarus And 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block correct the record by reading emails from listeners who heard mistakes in Tuesday's program; one, about the geo-political state of Belarus, and the other about the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Monkey See
1:59 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Spurred By Success, Publishers Look For The Next 'Hunger Games'

Credit
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

The film version of the young adult book sensation The Hunger Games opens March 23rd. The hype around the movie has sent the sales of the already best-selling trilogy to new heights. And publishers are eagerly churning out more books set in post apocalyptic dystopian worlds — just like The Hunger Games.

Read more
The Record
12:00 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Disney Songwriter Robert Sherman Has Died

Credit Ezio Petersen / UPI/Landov
Composer/lyricist Robert Sherman (left) and his brother Richard stand next to the car used in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The brothers wrote the songs for the movie, as well as a musical version that began running in 2002.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Robert Sherman — one half of the songwriting team behind Disney movies and major hit musicals — has died. He was 86. The Oscar-winning Sherman Brothers, Robert and Richard, wrote some of the most enduring Disney songs of all time. Their output was astounding: Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Aristocats.

John Lasseter, of Pixar and Disney, once said, "You cannot forget a Sherman brothers song for your life."

Read more

Pages