Word: npr
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...BECKETT FESTIVAL OF RADIO PLAYS (NPR, debuting April 2). Radio drama, alas, has largely gone the way of the gramophone. But National Public Radio is doing its bit this month to revive it with the U.S. premiere of five plays written for the medium by Samuel Beckett. Billie Whitelaw and David Warrilow star in the opener, All That Fall, about an aging woman meeting her blind husband at a railroad station. Following it, on successive Sunday nights: Embers, Words and Music, Cascando and Rough for Radio...
Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg smoked marijuana while he was a professor at Harvard Law School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, National Public Radio (NPR) reported yesterday...
Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for NPR, said she interviewed "at least a half dozen of his friends and colleagues who saw him smoking marijuana when he was a professor at Harvard Law School in the 1970s and perhaps in the early 1980s. He on occasion brought the marijuana...
...moment, APR's main problem is that people confuse it with National Public Radio. As APR Manager Rhoda Marx notes, "NPR was the only game in town for so long that the press and the public are locked into thinking of it as a generic rather than a brand name." Created in January 1982 by five major public radio stations (WNYC of New York, WGUC of Cincinnati, KQED of San Francisco, KUSC of Los Angeles and Minnesota Public Radio), APR has never produced its own shows, like NPR, but has acquired, distributed and marketed cultural programming to public radio...
...seem, are contradictory almost by definition (at least judging by the bulk of commercial radio). Free enterprise has fostered a lot of developments, but artistic quality has never been one of them. It's why artists found patrons, why scholars seek tenure, and probably why the federal government funded NPR in the first place...