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• Bill Hecke’s Latest Weather Forecasts and Updates
• The USO Report with Isabel Hubbard
• The Roving Reporter with Sonja Asendorf

Here are some of the amazing special programs available today on both KNCT and our HD2 station, NestFM.

5:57 am and 4:57 pm

• StarDate – Pi-Lover’s Delight
• Skywatchers came up with some great names for the stars that outline the body and belt of Orion the hunter: Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, Mintaka, and others. When it came to his shield, though, the imagination just pooped out. Six stars in a row are called Pi Orionis. The only thing that sets them apart is that they’re numbered from top to bottom.

6:30 am and 12:30 pm

• The Sound of Texas with Tumbleweed Smith
• Destination: Galveston

8:30 am and 3:30 pm

• EarthDate – Your Friendly Virome
• You might have heard of your microbiome, but did you know you also have a virome? That’s right, there are more than a trillion active viruses within you right now.

9:30 am and 2:30 pm

• Science and the Sea – Cloudy Seas
• When the clouds begin to thicken up, many of us head for cover. And small marine organisms may do the same thing. Some recent research found that they move up or down as cloud cover changes — a way to keep safe as the amount of light changes.

10:30 am and 1:30 pm

• SoundBeat with Brett Barry – War Requiem
• Got 90 seconds? Then you’ve got time for a trip through the history of recorded sound! Sound Beat is a daily, 90-second show highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Belfer is part of Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and is one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each Sound Beat episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

3 pm to 5 pm

• Echoes with John Diliberto on NestFM
• Echoes is a daily two-hour contemporary music soundscape distributed by PRX and broadcast on over 120 radio stations across the country that brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.

5 pm

• This American Life on NestFM – A Couple Walks Into A House, Part II
• This American Life is a weekly public radio show produced by Chicago Public Media and broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners each week. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. This American Life is distributed independently with WBEZ, and is available to stations weekly via the PRX Exchange broadcast distribution technology.
• Last week’s story continues, about a Michigan couple who walked into a police officer’s house and made a disturbing discovery. This week: the police officer suffers the consequences and so does the couple.

6:00 pm

• The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry on Nest FM
• “The Takeaway” is a one-hour daily news show that reveals unexpected insights into the day’s news, fills a need for greater context, and interacts with audiences in a way that no other public radio news program offers. “The Takeaway” convenes conversations across social divides to give listeners not just the information, but the complex, nuanced perspectives they need for understanding and participation. It features voices of Americans from all walks of life who may have different struggles and challenges but often speak to the same desires, dreams, and hopes for the future of their families and communities. It does not shy away from big and complicated stories; through exceptional sound design and production, the show breaks down complex policy and connects listeners with stories that touch their lives and their experiences.

6:15 pm

• CenTex Sustains with Christine Luciano
• Green Valentine

7:00 pm

• The World with Marco Werman on NestFM
• ”The World” is a US radio news magazine with an emphasis on international news and global journalism.
• “The World”’s unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day’s broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious, and beautiful planet. It’s about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe. “The World,” the radio program, is heard every weekday on nearly 300 public radio stations across North America.

9:00 pm to Midnight

• Jazz with David Basse on NestFM
• Jazz with David Basse surveys jazz’s wide range of forms and influences. You’ll hear everything from roots music and rare classic cuts to blues, Latin and the latest releases. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a jazz musician and recording artist, David punctuates his handpicked tracks with insights, anecdotes and brief interview snippets with well-known or up-and-coming artists.