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Freakonomics Radio joins KRPS's Saturday afternoon lineup

Hear Freakonomics Saturday at 1pm and Sunday morning at 5 on KRPS

Join us this afternoon at 1 as we welcome Freakonomics Radio to KRPS’s Saturday lineup. 

Freakonomics Radio ferrets out connections between seemingly unrelated things. The program explores the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—using the tools of economics to explore real-world behavior.

Host Stephen J. Dubner discovers the hidden side of everything in interviews with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs—and with his “Freakonomics” co-author Steve Levitt.

You can also hear Freakonomics Sunday morning at 5 on KRPS.

We’ve also added BBC World Service news headlines weekdays at 3:30 and Monday through Thursday at 7:01 pm.

Also, you can now hear Asian View produced by NHK World Japan weekdays at 3:57 pm right after Today, Explained.

Asian View is an international newscast produced by NHK WORLD-JAPAN. It features the latest business, trade, and geopolitical news from across Asia. Listen to Asian View weekdays for news from a region that’s playing an increasingly important role in the world.

Since 2017 Fred Fletcher-Fierro has driven up Highway 171 through thunderstorms, downpours, snow, and ice storms to host KRPS’s Morning Edition. He’s also a daily reporter for the station, covering city government, elections, public safety, arts, entertainment, culture, sports and more. Fred has also spearheaded and overseen a sea change in programming for KRPS from a legacy classical station to one that airs a balance of classical, news, jazz, and cultural programming that better reflects the diverse audience of the Four States. For over two months in the fall of 2022 he worked remotely with NPR staff to relaunch krps.org to an NPR style news and information website.

In the fall of 2023 Fred was promoted to Interim General Manager and was appointed GM in Feburary of 2024.