One of the most difficult things about moving to Memphis has been trying to find the good npr stations. Coming from the Louisville market, the bar was set extremely high for my public radio expectations. I realized that once I moved out of the yankee north, though, that I needed to adjust to how things are done here in the south. It took a little while, but I found the cool adult alternative station, WEVL, that has some really great programs for blues and soul (duh). So that helped some. And when I finally found the station that did talk radio all day -- I'm talking BBC World Have Your Say, You Bet Your Garden, and Talk of the Nation! -- I thought that everything would be okay here. That station, however, has recently been sold to a religious group and now all my talk radio is gone! The other station that plays classical all day does have Morning Edition and All Things Considered during the week. And it's a little better on the weekend when they have Car Talk and Whatdya Know. But what about Neal and Talk of the Nation? What about Terry and Fresh Air? I'm intellectually impoverished here! I don't watch TV or read the paper or generally get out from under my rock, but npr allowed me to transcend all that and have a clue about what was going on in the broader world. I knew we should have donated!!!
Originally posted at www.myspace.com/wannabedutch on 05/02/07.
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