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Today on KRPS for Sunday August 6

Today's KRPS show highlights include:
  • Travel with Rick Steve at noon, where Rick Steve talks to journalist Sophy Roberts about why she travels to countries that most people avoid.
  • Week 5 of 8 of our summer special, Live From Cain this afternoon at 3, where we hear from singer-songwriter Parker Millsap for an hour of music from his new album, Wilderness Within You.

Today on KRPS for Sunday August 5

5 AM - 7 AM - 

Performance Today Weekend

Performance Today playlists 

7 AM to 9 AM - 

Weekend Edition Sunday - 

9 AM to 10 AM - 

Zorba Paster On Your Health

RECIPE: Mango Shrimp Tacos

THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: Allergies, asthma linked to heart disease .

Old skin cells reprogrammed to regain youthful function

10 AM to 11 AM - 

The People’s Pharmacy

Show 1350: Why Psychotherapy Matters: Lessons from a Harvard Zen Master and Psychiatrist

Understanding our relationships is key to living a meaningful, happy life.

Psychotherapy matters because it can help us see why we stumble.

11 AM to 12 PM - 

You Bet Your Garden

On this 'classic' episode of YBYG, Mike gets you ready to save your seeds for next years garden.

Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

12 PM to 1 PM - 

Travel with Rick Steves

Travel outside your familiar comfort zone, on the next Travel with Rick Steves: Journalist Sophy Roberts explains why she travels to countries that most people would have a good reason to avoid.

Hiking guide Cassandra Overby tells us how she takes her young children with her, as they explore the historic hiking trails of Europe.

And tour guide Tim Tendick reports in from Romania on what he enjoys most about that country's less-traveled Old World scene.

1 PM to 2 PM - 

Pipedreams 

A Grand Organ Extravaganza! (Encore of #2041) #2331. . .a full helping of intriguing interpretive indulgence featuring David Briggs, Olivier Latry and Wayne Marshall in concert at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.

2 PM - 3 PM - Also heard Saturday at noon

This American Life

Ep. 807 Eight Fights

Nadia's family is split between Russia and Ukraine. In this moment, that's ... complicated.

We document a series of eight fights they've gotten into, since Russia invaded Ukraine.

3 PM - 4 PM - KRPS Special Programming Hour

Eight week special series running July through August

Live From Cain's explores the American music experience in every song and story from the historic Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This eight-episode summer series is hosted by guitarist and fiddler Fats Kaplin, who welcomes a diverse lineup of national touring musicians and the home-grown Oklahoma Specials house band playing on the same stage first made famous in the 1930's by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

So open your window, turn up the radio and experience Live From Cain's!

4 PM - 5 PM - 

Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…Also heard Saturday morning at 9.

HOST: Peter Sagal OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Bill Kurtis NOT MY JOB GUEST: Maggie Smitth PANELISTS: Adam Burke; Shane O’Neill and Emmy Blotnick.

NOT MY JOB: Poet Maggie Smith plays our game called, “Meet the Other Maggie Smith. No, not that one. The Other, other Maggie Smith.” Three questions about different Maggie Smiths.

5 PM - 6 PM - 

On The Media Also heard Saturday morning at 5.

HOST: BROOKE GLADSTONE

Removing Relics of "The Lost Cause"

Across the country, nine army posts across the South have, or will, receive new names before the year is over — in an attempt to remove some of the most persistent commemorations of the Confederacy.

This week, Brooke sits down with Ty Seidule, Vice Chair of the National Commission on Base Renaming and author of the book Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, to talk about the commission's work and his own relationship with “The Lost Cause.”

6 PM - 7 PM - 

Live From The Bicknell Center

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Ozark Highlands Radio

OHR Presents: Country Blues

A titanic trio of certified country blues guitar masters recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas.

Also, commentary from these blues maestros. OHR producer Jeff Glover offers an archival recording of Ozark original Kenneth Rorie.

Also, in his segment “Back in the Hills,” writer, professor and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins tells the story of Enoch Wolf, an adventitiously fortunate Arkansas Confederate Civil War officer.

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Thistle and Shamrock 

Hear how mandolin and banjo, instruments from Italian and West African origins, are also perfectly suited to today’s Celtic melodies, with Chris Thile, Rhiannon Giddens, Simon Mayor, and Mary Z. Cox.

9:00 PM- 9:30 PM

All Songs Considered

New Mix: Mitski, Irreversible Entanglements, Sally Anne Morgan, more

9:30 PM To 10 PM - 

Alt. Latino

Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with the Puerto Rican hip-hop artist Eladio Carrión to discuss what drives him, learning Spanish through music and how he's changing the game of Latin rap.

10 PM to 12 AM

World Cafe

12 AM - 5 AM Monday

BBC World Service

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.