Our Top 10 NPR Series on Our Local Station: Ira Glass Takes the Blue Ribbon

Greetings to our blog readers in Turkey, Latvia and Mexico......unlike Donald Trump, we have nothing folks from our southern border.

These are our ten favorite National Public Radio shows which air on WVTF/RadioIQ (Roanoke, Charlottesville,Va.); many of these shows are regional in nature and do not air nationally, but the top are among the most popular NPR series nationally.

These images are for 1) This American Life which is hosted by Ira Glass and features stories on a fixed topic which usually take place somewhere in America; 2) the radio tower is for "Radiolab," a show that was described by '80s teen cinema icon Molly Ringwald as a 'This American Life' for science people (paraphrasing); and 3) Aziz Ansari, the comic/actor was a guest on both "This American Life" and "Studio 360" last week.

Here is our top ten:

1. This American Life

2. Radiolab

3. Studio 360

4. The TED Radio Hour

5. A Way With Words

6. Your Weekly Constitutional

7. Philosophy Talk

8. New Dimensions

9. Thistle and Shamrock

10 (tie). Animal Planet; Back Story

http://www.waywordradio.org/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

http://www.radiolab.org/

http://www.montpelier.org/center/radio

http://www.wvtf.org

East Coast NPR Stations

http://www.wbur.org  (Boston)

http://www.wypr.org (Baltimore)

 http://www.wfdd.org

(Winston-Salem, NC)

http://www.wunc.org (Chapel Hill, NC)

http://www.wxvu.org (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Top Ten from this Week's Father's Day Washington Post: Denmark Rules the World

Greetings to our blog readers in Malta, Colombia, and New Zealand............

Before we get to this week's comic strips survey, we want to encourage those of you here in America to support your local National Public Radio (NPR) station. Earlier tonight, we were both informed and entertained by "Radiolab," a radio show about scientific and psychological topics and trends, produced by WNYC (New York) and co-hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. The show even has listeners in Iran!

This week's image are of the following: 1) For the Danish import "WuMo" we have an image of skywriting as the strip has a skywriting message saying: "Stop Looking At Home;" 2) The Lazy Boy recliner is our image for "Brewster Rockit" as the Buck Rodgers/Flash Gordon wanna be talks about how sitting reduces our lifespan (????!!!, sorry for breaking the fourth wall) and 3) Cumulonimbus clouds are for "Frazz," to find out exactly why, just try to find the strip at: http://www.gocomics.com/frazz

Here is our top ten:

1) WuMo

2) Lio

3) Brewster Rockit

4) Frazz

5) Rhymes with Orange

6) Doonesbury

7) Knight Life

8) Foxtrot

9) Prickly City

10) Pearls Before Swine

http://www.washingtonpost.com/comics

http://www.radiolab.org

http://www.wnyc.org

http://www.gocomics.com/wumo