Programs A-Z

A Prairie Home Companion
KUT: Saturday 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Sunday 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
A Prairie Home Companion delivers the News from Lake Wobegone, the best in storytelling and
great American music every week with Garrison Keillor at the center of it all.

Across the Water
KUT: Sunday 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Join KUT’s Ed Miller on Sunday evenings for the best in Irish, Scottish and English folk music from both sides of the pond.

All Things Considered
KUT: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Friday
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Weekends 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
All Things Considered is an unequalled daily dose of breaking news, engaging interviews and features, compelling analysis, and insightful commentary from NPR News.

American Routes
KUT: Tuesday 12:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Hosted by Nick Spitzer, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads of American music.

Arts Eclectic
KUT’s Michael Lee produces Arts Eclectic and turns the spotlight on happenings happenings in the arts and culture scene in and around the Austin area.

Austin Music Minute
With KUT’s Austin Music Minute,  Laurie Gallardo gives you the latest scoop on the local music scene, everything from cool new Austin bands to touring acts stopping in town for shows. Catch it weekdays, 7:50 a.m., 11:45 a.m. and 3:50 p.m.

BBC Newshour
KUT: Saturday 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m., Sunday 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m. The BBC Newshour keeps listeners up-to-date on headlines and breaking developments in international news.

BBC World Briefing
KUT: Weekdays 3:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m.
The BBC World Briefing keeps listeners up-to-date on headlines and breaking developments in international news.

BBC World Update
KUT: Weekdays 4:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m.
The World Update from BBC draws on their global network to provide live interviews and rigorous reporting on politics, culture, and the environment.

BBC’s World Have Your Say
The week of November 17-21 2008 featured BBC’s World Have Your Say, originating here in Austin at KUT.

Car Talk
KUT: Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Hosted by Click and Clack (the Tappet Brothers), Car Talk offers practical advice to car owners, along with a healthy dose of homespun humor, biased opinions, and silly noises.

Changing Austin
Changing Austin is a weekly piece from the KUT News team exploring how Austinites can become more involved in shaping the city’s future.

Earthsongs
KUT: Saturday 3:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m.
With host Shyanned Beatty, Earthsongs highlights the Native influences that help shape and define contemporary American music.

Eklektikos
KUT: Weekdays 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Monday thru Thursday Eklektikos host and creator John Aielli entertains and engages listeners with a mix of music that leaps across almost all musical genres. KUT’s Jody Denberg holds down the Eklektikos fort on Friday mornings with his take on this legendary KUT music program.

Field and Feast
KUT: Saturday 11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m-11:05 a.m
Hosted by Cecilia Nasti, Field and Feast connects people with their inner gardeners, helping folks create great meals and a sense of community.

Fresh Air
KUT: Weekdays 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by Terry Gross, Fresh Air pushes the “talk show” boundaries through insightful interviews with authors, artists, TV writers, historians, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, politicians and actors.

Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac
Every day, Garrison Keillor presents Writer’s Alamanac, a 5-minute gem, recounting literary milestones of the day in history and reading a short poem or two.

Get Involved!
You love Central Texas so check out Get Involved and look out the almost never ending list of volunteer opportunities at local organizations!

Global Grooves with Michael Crockett
KUT: Sunday 10:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
A two-hour journey through international grooves usually beginning in South America and the Caribbean before crossing over to Africa, moving up through Europe and across the Mideast.

Horizontes with Michael Crockett
KUT: Friday 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Taking its name from the Spanish and Portugese word for horizons, Horizontes explores the “horizons” of Latin music from Brazil to Argentina, up through the Andes to Colombia, and the Caribbean.

In Black America
In Black America, is a 30-minute discussion program that provides a forum for black Americans to “educate and be educated.” Heard as a podcast and on Digital KUT2.

KUT Morning NewsPod
The KUT Morning Newspod, is a wrap up of the top morning stories to jumpstart your day. It’s a one-stop shop for Central Texas and statewide news and weather. The Newspod is posted every weekday morning by nine. You can subscribe to it.

KUT Newscast
KUT’s news team delivers local breaking news, weather and current events, direct to you each day.

KUT Testimonials
Some of our favorite people stop by our studios and talk about what KUT Radio and Austin mean to them.

Left of the Dial
KUT: Friday 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Host Jeff McCord provides a fun and fevered soundtrack to kick off your weekend each Friday night, roaming the wide range of the musical spectrum, mixing in both your favorites and brand new discoveries.

Marketplace
KUT: Weekdays 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Marketplace breaks down the numbers without the hard edge of other financial news programs, clarifying the confusing American financial trends with a human touch.

Morning Edition
KUT: Weekdays 5:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Grab a cup of coffee and join local anchor Jennifer Stayton and NPR’s Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne for Morning Edition from NPR News. You’ll get a straight forward, independent, intelligent and timely look at the important news of the day from around our city, around the country and around the world.

Music With Audrey Morton
KUT: Friday 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Buckle your seatbelt–and welcome to Audrey’s world.  Music with Audrey Morton includes indie rock, pop, country, jazz and world music–along with local artists in the early hours of Saturday morning.  Go back in time with the 1 a.m. new wave flashback and she wraps up the show with some electronica to send you off into dreamland.

Music with Jay Trachtenberg
KUT: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Tune into Music with Jay Trachtenberg, and hear the host winding his way across the entire expanse of the music spectrum from the 1920s to the present.

Music with Kevin Connor
KUT: Saturday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
As one of Austin radio’s biggest supporters of Austin music for the past 25 years, Kevin gives a special emphasis to the artists who’ll be taking the stage in our town.

Music With Matt Reilly
KUT: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
No genre is off limits Tuesday through Thursday nights with Matt Reilly. You just might hear your next favorite band alongside a long forgotten gem that you thought you’d never hear on the radio again. Plus, Matt hosts up and coming local and national acts in Studio 1A to further aid your musical discovery.

Music with Mike Taylor
KUT: Tuesday, Wednesday 11 p.m.-3 a.m.
Join Mike for an eclectic late night mix with an emphasis on new releases and emerging artists alongside KUT favorites.

Music with Rick McNulty
KUT: Saturday 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m., Sunday 12:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m.
Deep in the heart of Saturday night, Rick conjures the quintessential FM radio experience where every musical genre is fair game — from the arcane to the archaic, from legends to this year’s models, from local artists to interplanetary explorers.

NPR Music Favorite Sessions
Each month, NPR picks a favorite live performance from our studios to showcase on http://www.npr.org/ as  representation of the live music capital of the world!

O’Dark 30
KUT: Monday 12:00 am – 3:00 am
Produced by Mike Lee, David Alvarez & Hawk Mendenhall, O’Dark 30 is a weekly 3-hour exploration of the wide, wide world of independent radio production. This esoteric blend of cool radio you just won’t hear anywhere else is becoming a cult listening favorite.

On Being, with Krista Tippett
KUT: Sunday 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
On Being, with Krista Tippett, is a spacious conversation — and an evolving media space — about the big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.

On The Media
KUT: Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
From censorship issues to how popular culture, politics, and money influence the media and society at large, On the Media decodes what’s heard, read, and seen in the media every day.

PRI’s The World
KUT: Weekdays 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
The World is the first global radio news program developed for an American audience, reporting on science and technology, business, environment, sports, and music. A partnership between PRI, the BBC, and WGBH in Boston.

Saturday Folkways
KUT: Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Kevin Connor presents the best in contemporary and traditional folk,Americana, bluegrass and more every Saturday on Folkways.

Saturday Overnight Music with Rick McNulty
KUT: Saturday 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m., Sunday 12:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m.
Stay up late and enjoy music after dark.

Selected Shorts
KUT: Sunday 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Selected Shorts features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading contemporary and classic short fiction -the most distinguished works of the early masters.

Song of the Day
KUT’s Song of the Day provides a place to check out new and unreleased music handpicked by the music nerds at Texas Music Matters.

Sonic IDs
KUT is creating a sound portrait of life in Austin and Central Texas with these aggressively pointless little stories of what it’s like to live in our part of the world.

Sound Opinions
Thursday 11 p.m., Saturday 6-7 a.m.
From WBEZ Chicago comes Sound Opinions, a music themed talk show hosted by pop music writers Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot. Tune in and check out new albums and the latest trends in music – from indie rock to classic rock, hip hop to R&B. This is cutting-edge criticism and journalism presented in the great tradition of Siskel and Ebert.

Splendid Table
KUT: Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
From its first mealtime brainstorm to the award-winning weekly program it is today, The Splendid Table with host Lynn Rosetto Kasper continues its celebration of food and the roles it plays in our lives.

Story Corps
StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others’ stories in sound.

StoryCorps Historias: Hispanic Heritage in Austin
A reflection of the history, heritage and spirit of Austin’s Hispanic community.

Sunday Folkways
Long-time KUT music host Ed Miller and Kim Simpson are the rotating hosts for Sunday Folkways every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. right after A Prairie Home Companion. You’ll hear all kinds of folk music hand…

Texas Music Matters
KUT: Friday 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., 11 p.m.-12 a.m.
Hosted by David Brown, Texas Music Matters profiles Texas talent, our home-grown music industry, historical roots, and more.