Program Alerts

New Hampshire Public Radio is offering an extra helping of cheer around the holidays with programming centered on getting into the spirit of the season.

This year, the airwaves will feature some familiar classics as well as some newer offerings from the Capitol Steps and a holiday music round-up featuring NHPR’s Rick Ganley and Emily Quirk.

See NHPR’s full list of special programming below:

NHPR HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

Holidays by Request with Rick Ganley and Emily Quirk

On a day for family, friends and feasting, NHPR is your perfect Thanksgiving holiday soundtrack.

Programs that celebrate the spirit of gratitude, the culinary arts, and the magic of storytelling will be on offer throughout the day. Here’s the banquet of public radio highlights to be heard:

9 to 10 a.m. The Science of Gratitude

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Election Day coverage will include field reporting from reporters across the state, in-studio analysis and commentary, and ongoing digital updates.

NHPR continues to explore in-depth the candidates and issues that impact voters this midterm election, taking a broader look at the forces that shape our politics: the impact of money in politics, changing voter demographics, and questions around voter access and residency requirements, among other topics.   

New Hampshire Public Radio will broadcast midterm elections coverage from National Public Radio Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Beginning at 8 p.m., NHPR airwaves will bring listeners reporting from NPR’s political correspondents. Ailsa Change, Ari Shapiro, Michel Martin, Sam Sanders and Sarah McCammon will host interviews with reporters throughout the night while the NPR politics team will offer results and analysis.

Digital Coverage:

New Hampshire Public Radio’s newsroom continues to report on how opioid usage is impacting individuals, communities and the collective public health throughout New Hampshire. Starting Monday, Sept. 17, a five-part series titled "Taking a Toll" and airing on Morning Edition will focus specifically on how the crisis is affecting the state’s youth.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s newsroom will offer comprehensive coverage of the Sept. 11 state primary elections.

On that Tuesday, voters across the state will cast their ballots for the Democratic gubernatorial candidates as well as their choices for the first congressional district and the second congressional district. Laura Knoy will host the special coverage from the NHPR studios in Concord. NHPR reporters will be in the field or in-studio providing analysis. At the nhpr.org website, a live blog will provide up-to-the minute reporting on the races.

New Hampshire Public Radio will broadcast the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, beginning today.

National Public Radio will provide coverage of the hearings in their entirety starting Tuesday, Sept. 4. NHPR will broadcast NPR’s coverage each morning and rejoin NHPR’s programming—already in progress—once the court takes its recess each afternoon.

New Hampshire Public Radio will air coverage of John McCain’s memorial service from the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s capital on Saturday, Sept. 1.

National Public Radio will provide live, anchored reporting of the entire service, which will be broadcast during Weekend Edition Saturday on NHPR. Coverage starts at 10 a.m. with host and Congressional Correspondent Scott Detrow. White House Correspondent Scott Horsley will join Detrow in-studio, and Kelsey Snell, NPR Congressional Reporter, will report from the National Cathedral.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s newsroom will present a series of reports on how education leaders, community members and families are addressing problems and finding solutions around issues of racism and bias in the Granite State.

New Hampshire Public Radio listeners may notice select changes to their listening routines, starting the week of Monday, September 3.

Changes to the programming schedule will impact five programs:

NPR is implementing some changes to its Morning Edition broadcast. Here's a Q&A guide that explains more about the changes and how it may impact what you hear when you tune in weekday mornings to NHPR.   

What’s Happening?

Beginning on Monday, August 13, listeners to NHPR may notice some slight changes to the Morning Edition broadcast.

To better reflect listening habits and changing patterns in news consumption, National Public Radio (NPR) is revising its Morning Edition clock.

New Hampshire Public Radio will air a one-hour special from 1A titled "Families At The Border" Wednesday at 8 p.m.

Thousands of children have been separated from their parents at the southern border of the United States under the federal government's "zero tolerance" policy.

A Quinnipiac University poll found that while a third of voters oppose the policy - more than half of Republicans polled support the policy.

NHPR ADDS RADIO EDITION OF ACCLAIMED PODCAST TO EVENING LINE-UP

The Daily - an esteemed program from The New York Times and American Public Media - will offer listeners deep and thoughtful analysis on compelling stories in the news, each weekday on NHPR. 

As summer unfolds in New Hampshire, NHPR is offering several programming options that bring the outdoors to the airwaves.

Season Four of Outside/In, the program about the natural world and how we use it, will air on NHPR from Monday, June 18 through Friday, June 22 during the 3 p.m. broadcast slot usually reserved for the BBC Newshour. Outside/In, hosted by Sam Evans-Brown, combines solid reporting with long-form narrative storytelling to bring the outdoors to everyone, anywhere.

From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago. It is a non-partisan journey through Obama’s life before he became President.

Host Jennifer White talks with Obama’s key advisors, mentors, rivals, and the former President himself.

NHPR will air the first of this two-part special Saturday, June 2 at 10 p.m.

The second part will air Saturday, June 9 at 10 p.m.

Part One covers Obama’s years as a community organizer to his first elected office in Springfield, Illinois.

Just in time for Memorial Day, NHPR will broadcast a powerful tribute to military valor. Actor Stephen Lang wrote and performed Beyond Glory, capturing the stories of three veterans who each earned the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S military accolade, awarded to servicemen and women who distinguish themselves through acts of courage or bravery.  

THE EXCHANGE FEATURES EXTENDED CONVERSATION ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE’S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM  

A new ongoing feature series from New Hampshire Public Radio will explore some of the unique moments in time, inventions and accomplishments that first were created, launched or happened in the Granite State.

“New Hampshire Firsts” will explore many of the ‘firsts’ the state can lay claim to, including the first free libraries in the country, the first state constitution, and the first women’s strike.

Starting April 7, NHPR listeners can enjoy a new take on the week’s news, courtesy of “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders.”

The show initially launched in June 2017 as a twice-weekly podcast; it’s since expanded to a one-hour weekly radio program format.  Part news analysis, part pop culture dive – each weekly conversation looks back at the most timely topics of the week, interviewing newsmakers, journalists, tastemakers and listeners for a casual, approachable dialogue.

The Road Now Taken

New NHPR Springtime Series Highlights People, Places & Events Worthy of a Road Trip

Maple sugaring season in New Hampshire, an alpaca farm, and a brewery with musical roots are just some of the fun destinations summoning visitors for a Granite State getaway. 

Season 4 of NPR's Invisibilia will examine how the stories we tell ourselves can lock us into one place or another... and what happens in the space in between. 

Invisibilia explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. The show is co-hosted by award winning journalists Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin. In each episode, human stories are combined with the latest thinking on psychological and brain science. 

Longtime NHPR Series Celebrates 20 Years’ of Exploring New Hampshire’s Wild Places

Visits to mountains and seashore, educated banter with biologists, and interesting encounters with wildlife are some of the many memories associated with New Hampshire Public Radio’s long-running radio series Something Wild.

NHPR Series Looks at the Economic, Social and Personal Costs of Living in the Granite State 

Have you spent your whole life in New Hampshire? Moved away and came back? Settled here for family reasons or for a new opportunity? Spent a season skiing and never left? Granite Staters come to – or stay in - New Hampshire for varied reasons. A new series from New Hampshire Public Radio will explore the benefits, the sacrifices, and the reasons people stay in New Hampshire, leave or return.

Diane Rehm is back on the air, discussing the state of the country one year after the inauguration of President Trump. 

Later this week, the beloved host will welcome a panel of political analysts, delving into how the country has changed since the election, and what's ahead for the White House, Congress and voters in 2018. 

The program will air on NHPR on Friday evening, January 19, at 8 p.m. 

Listen in then to hear Diane and her guests:  

Favorite holiday tunes from listeners, a dose of old-time radio, and special themed programs will deck the airwaves of NHPR this season:

Holidays by Request with Rick & Emily

Are you an Elvis ‘Blue Christmas’ fan or more of an Alvin & The Chipmunks ‘Christmas Song’ connoisseur? New this season from NHPR, Holidays by Request features Morning Edition Host Rick Ganley and Producer Emily Quirk co-hosting an hour of listeners’ favorite holiday tunes. Take a listen and see if your seasonal favorite makes the cut. Broadcast times:

After learning of allegations of inappropriate behavior in the workplace, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) terminated its contracts with Garrison Keillor and his private media companies on Wednesday, November 29.

As a result of the termination, MPR and American Public Media (APM) ended distribution and broadcast of The Writer’s Almanac, and rebroadcasts of The Best of a Prairie Home Companion hosted by Garrison Keillor. MPR and APM also announced they would change the name of APM’s current version of A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Chris Thile.

Let New Hampshire Public Radio be your holiday soundtrack this Thanksgiving Day!

In between football games, feasting and family, take a listen to the special programming NHPR will air on Thursday, November 23. 

The Science of Gratitude

Giving thanks goes beyond one day, one holiday. How do you cultivate more gratitude in your life? With your family and children? In the workplace? In your community?

CONCORD, NH – The environmental benefits and human costs of clean energy; corporate power dynamics; and the treatment of native peoples are the weighty issues examined in a new, groundbreaking series of reports from New Hampshire Public Radio, starting Thursday, November 9.

New Hampshire Public Radio is taking a closer look at the impact of trail recreation in the state, in a new series called Off-Road.