XM Radio - Announcing XM Public Radio

XM Public Radio - XM 133 will launch on September 1.

The Bob Edwards Show starts in October.

Check Out XM's Recent Lineup Changes

Bob Edwards is returning to the airwaves every weekday morning from coast-to-coast in a new show that can only be heard on XM Satellite Radio. Bob Edwards' new daily morning show will be the cornerstone of XM's new public radio channel, XM Public Radio - XM 133, also featuring programs from Public Radio International (PRI) and its station partners Chicago Public Radio and WGBH Boston, WBUR and American Public Media which includes programming from Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio.

Bob Edwards hosted NPR's popular Morning Edition since its premier in 1979. He and the show received a prestigious Peabody Award in 1999. Now, XM is pleased to present The Bob Edwards Show that will be a daily (weekday), one hour, interview show featuring Bob Edwards and his warm, intelligent interviewing style, live from XM. Topics will range from media and art to entertainment or politics with guests who will offer stimulating insight and conversation.

Read XM's recent Press Release announcing "The Bob Edwards Show".

Embracing the high-quality content that distinguishes public radio from the rest of the pack, XM Public Radio is a 24-hour digital quality channel that provides listeners with insightful, entertaining and provocative commercial-free programming produced by some of the most respected names in public broadcasting, including Public Radio International (PRI); American Public Media (APM) (the production and distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio); and Boston public radio station WBUR.

	*Afropop Worldwide* http://www.afropop.org Afropop Worldwide is the U.S.A.'s first and longest-lived program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. Hosted by Georges Collinet, Afropop Worldwide draws on an unprecedented array of reporters, artists, and cultural guides to present an hour that is authoritative, comprehensive, and hugely entertaining.

	*American Routes* http://www.americanroutes.org American Routes is an excursion into American music, spanning eras and genres — roots rock and soul, blues and country, jazz, gospel and beyond. From moody streets and muddy waters to purple mountains and the open range, America has produced an incredibly wide body of music, and host Nick Spitzer samples it all. He takes listeners on exciting musical journeys from the known to the unknown and back again, visiting sites with familiar sounds but also making side trips to the places where Cajun, klezmer, and Téjano flourish.

	*Echoes* http://www.echoes.org Echoes creates a modern soundscape of music that draws from a multitude of cultures, traditions, and genres. Hosted by music journalist John Diliberto, this series of evocative, ground-breaking music seamlessly bridges new instrumental, world fusion, new acoustic, impressionistic jazz, and inventive vocal styles.

	*From The Top* http://www.fromthetop.org Hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O'Riley, each program profiles classical artists who demonstrate their prodigious musical talent. Responding to O'Riley's engaging and often whimsical manner, they share their passion for and knowledge of the genre, and reveal much about their non-musical lives, from career goals and siblings to favorite breakfast foods and pets. Taped before a live audience in major performance centers, From the Top offers a weekly lineup of young individuals and ensembles whose performances are outstanding.

	*Leonard Lopate* http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate Host Leonard Lopate lets you in on the best conversations with writers, actors, ex-presidents, dancers, scientists, comedians, historians, grammarians, curators, filmmakers, and do-it-yourself experts. Live interaction is critical to Lopate's conversational and personal style. "I think it's crucial to maintain eye contact when you're discussing complex matters with the likes of John Updike, Doris Lessing, Bill Bradley, Mark Morris, and Francis Ford Coppola, all of whom are return guests to Leonard Lopate on WNYC," says Lopate.

	*Mountain Stage* http://www.mountainstage.org Mountain Stage guarantees listeners the best seats in the house for new performers and established artists. It's an exploration of the exciting and spontaneous sound of live performance, offering intelligent, contemporary music seasoned with traditional and roots artists. Hosted by Larry Groce, this award-winning show is the longest-running program of its kind - over 1,200 artists have appeared on the Stage since it premiered nationally in 1985.

	*The Next Big Thing* http://www.nextbigthing.org The Next Big Thing is PRI's weekly radio features magazine. Creator and host Dean Olsher collaborates with some of America's most talented writers and performers, including Meg Wolitzer, Henry Alford, David Cale, Jonathan Katz, Richard Ford and Matt Power. The program seeks out unusual, offbeat and sometimes quietly affecting subjects: they may ride along with former prisoners who bring puppies to those still behind bars; risk life and limb on homemade roller coasters; listen in as a young man attempts to cure his stutter; and track down an illegal immigrant facing deportation after 9/11. The result is a sound-rich, intimate, frequently funny, and always engaging radio show.

	*Riverwalk Jazz* http://www.riverwalk.org Riverwalk Jazz presents a season of captivating shows that tell the story of jazz in America. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band's music covers the genre's early years - from turn-of-the-century blues and cakewalks, to the small swing ensembles of the 1920s and '30s. Hosted by the award-winning storyteller David Holt and bandleader Jim Cullum, Riverwalk Jazz features The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest artists.

	*Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner* http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit Sound & Spirit is a cultural documentary that explores the universal questions confronting all people. The programs are hosted by Ellen Kushner, who each program focuses on a single theme — weddings, harvest, creativity, the story of Jonah — and explore that theme in a broad range of words and music. One of the program's primary goals is to put listeners in touch with traditions, myths, and rituals that have served the spiritual needs of people around the world and through the ages.

	*Soundcheck* http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck New York Public Radio's (WNYC) Soundcheck features music host John Schaefer, who showcases the finest composers and performers with a program focused squarely on New York's vibrant cultural scene. Tune in for live music performances by leading musicians and composers, stimulating conversation about the latest trends in arts and ideas, and regular updates about the cultural, musical and artistic life of New York City and beyond.

	*Sounds Eclectic* http://www.soundseclectic.org Sounds Eclectic is a mix of tomorrow's new music, as well as live performances and interviews with established and up-and-coming artists. Hosted by tastemaker and trendsetter, Nic Harcourt of KCRW, Sounds Eclectic is produced at 89.9 FM KCRW (KCRW.com) in Santa Monica, CA - home of Harcourt's world-renowned program, Morning Becomes Eclectic.

	*PRI's Studio 360* http://www.wnyc.org/studio360 Hosted by novelist and journalist Kurt Andersen, Studio 360 is a lively forum for the arts and culture that challenges listeners' perceptions of the world. Through richly textured stories and insightful conversation about everything from opera to comic books, Studio 360 presents ideas that are provocative, moving, and always engaging.

	*This American Life* http://www.thisamericanlife.org An award-winning, critically acclaimed, program describing and documenting contemporary American life. Each week a theme is chosen, and host Ira Glass and a variety of writers and performers share stories in a range of styles: monologues, documentaries, short radio plays, "found recordings," and original works for radio.

	*Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?* http://www.notmuch.com A comedy / quiz / interview show that is dynamic, varied, and thoroughly entertaining. Host and quiz-master Michael Feldman invites contestants to answer questions drawn from his seemingly limitless store of insignificant (but also somehow, important) information.

	*Airtalk* http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk A daily, one-hour live talk program with host, Larry Mantle from Los Angeles. Mantle started the program in 1985, and it is now the longest continuously running daily talk program in the Los Angeles radio market. The AirTalk guest roster features leaders in science, health, social debate, history, entertainment, politics and the arts, coupled with the telephone participation of a highly-sophisticated public radio audience. Larry Mantle's AirTalk has won numerous Golden Mike, Associated Press and Los Angeles Press Club Awards, including Best Talk Show.

	*American Mavericks* http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org A 13-part series of one-hour shows with Suzanne Vega focusing on the sounds and personalities of musical innovation in America during the 20th century. Includes interviews with music makers and discussion with San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. American Mavericks won the Peabody Award in 2004.

	*American RadioWorks* http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org Gold Baton Award winning documentaries from public radio's largest national documentary unit. American RadioWorks just received a $1.2 M grant for new documentaries, series projects and investigative reports. Principal themes include public affairs documentaries on major social economic issues, investigative reporting and social and cultural stories with strong narrative threads.

	*As It Happens* http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/asithappens Listening to As It Happens is like taking a trip around the world five nights a week. As It Happens gets its stories from "the horse's mouth" - securing interviews with world leaders, rabble-rousers, bingo callers and deposed dictators. The show has a soft-spot for "characters" and never turns its nose up at something wild, weird or wacky. And, on the complex and troubling stories of the day, As It Happens searches for greater understanding in the story behind the story.

	*Composers Datebook* http://composersdatebook.publicradio.org A daily, two-minute program links significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past to news on current events involving living composers with appropriate and accessible music related to each.

	*Future Tense* http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense A daily, five minute newscast focused on Technology news. Jon Gordon hosts this popular program from San Francisco. Program is distributed within the As It Happens feed.

	*Pop Vultures* http://popvultures.publicradio.org A new weekly 1/2 hour series, with a young, irreverent hosts from Los Angeles -- not your typical public radio show, and a new offering backed by the "new projects" people working with Garrison Keillor.

	*Speaking of Faith* http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org A weekly, one-hour interview show with host Krist Tippett on topics of faith and ethics in America; Drawing participants from the breadth of religious experience, this series asks how traditions of faith might illuminate themes of American life in substantive and surprising ways. Growing list of national awards.

	*The Writer's Almanac* http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org Garrison Keillor's hugely popular daily feature of literary history and a brief poetry selection. Garrison Keillor is a Minnesota writer and humorist whose name is synonymous with public radio and casual Mid-western charm. The author of 11 books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Wobegon Boy.

	*The Connection* http://www.theconnection.org/about Linking curious, engaged listeners to street-smart conversations, The Connection is energetic, edgy, outside-the-beltway American talk. The two-hour program tackles a vast range of topics. From politics to literature, religion to science, and music to medicine, The Connection approaches each with a modern edge. Dick Gordon has reported from Moscow, New Delhi, Turkey and all around the globe. Prior to joining The Connection, Dick was the senior correspondent of This Morning - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship show. He brings to The Connection a deep and broad experience in both journalism and broadcasting with an intellectual curiosity and a sense of humor that invites the audience in.

	*Here and Now* http://www.here-now.org/about Here and Now is Public Radio's noon news magazine. Produced every weekday at WBUR in Boston, Here and Now is a fast-paced program that covers up-to-the-minute news and also provides regular features on food and cooking, science and technology, and personal finance, as well as cultural stories about film, theater, music and more.

	*On Point* http://www.onpointradio.org/about Live, evening news program covering each day's important news developments and conducting conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from all around the world. The live, two-hour program is broadcast from 7-9PM EST in Boston and is broadcast at various times on stations around the country. A hybrid talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate. Topics chosen for the program are often taken from the biggest news stories of the day while others have a direct connection to issues that are at the core of what is urgent and important in the world at the moment. Interwoven are programs containing interviews with personalities, politicians, musicians, writers, and journalists. On Point deliberately seeks out distinct and provocative voices that may be new to public radio or that may not have been heard in quite the same context before. Debriefs, discussions and radio diaries are designed not just to stimulate the intellect of the listeners but also to elicit emotion and passion about the state of national and international affairs.

	*Only A Game* http://www.onlyagame.org/about An award-winning weekly sports magazine hosted by veteran NPR commentator Bill Littlefield, Only A Game is radio for the serious sports fan and the steadfast sports avoider. Produced by WBUR in Boston, Only A Game puts sports in perspective with intelligent analysis, insightful interviews, and a keen sense humor. Crafted to lead into Weekend Edition Saturday, the hour-long program is characterized by Littlefield's exceptional writing and affable personality. Only A Game tells the stories behind the box scores, including the explosion of interest in women's sports, competitive opportunities for the disabled, and the business of sports — as well as who wins and who loses. Guests on Only A Game have included writers John Updike, Robert Pinsky, and Roger Angell; commentators Bud Collins and Tim Kurkjian; current and former athletes Muhammad Ali, Kristine Lilly, Senator Bill Bradley, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and coaches Pat Summit and Geno Auriemma.

BBC World Service
Renowned for objectivity and global reach, the BBC has set the standard for broadcast coverage of international news for decades. Tune to the BBC World Service - XM 131 for a broad perspective on world events, as well as drama and lifestyle in the BBC tradition.