All Things Considered
Weekdays from 4pm to 6pm on Radio IQ
Much has changed on All Things Considered since the program debuted on May 3, 1971. But there is one thing that remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time news radio program in the country.
All Things Considered airs Monday - Friday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on RADIO IQ. On the weekends, ATC is on 5:00-6:00 pm on RADIO IQ.
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Jacki Lyden remembers Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at the age of 84. We hear excerpts from NPR interviews with Mailer. And we speak with Jimmy Breslin, the long-time newspaper columnist who was Mailer's running-mate when the author ran unsuccessfully for New York mayor in 1969.
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Author Ken Wells layers his new novel with love, corruption and Cajun cuisine. Jacki Lyden talks with Wells about Crawfish Mountain, a story about big oil and the Louisiana wetlands.
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In late 1944, seven U.S. Army airmen crashed on the island of Borneo and were rescued by a native jungle tribe. In her new book, author Judith Heimann recounts the story of their protection by natives as Japanese hunt them on the mountainous island.
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Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.
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Friday morning in Pakistan, a detention order was imposed on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. By the end of the day, it was lifted. The United States expressed concern about her detention and urged Pakistani authorities "to quickly return to constitutional order and democratic norms."
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The pharmaceutical company Merck announced Friday that it will pay nearly $5 billion dollars to settle claims involving the painkiller Vioxx. The settlement only goes into effect if a large number of plaintiffs agree to drop their cases, but that looks likely.
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Like the early Coen Brothers films Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing, this thriller is a genre exercise — controlled, precise and exquisite in its imagery as it makes an audience cringe.
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Adam Posen, deputy director and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discusses how the weak U.S. dollar, the American real estate market and consumer confidence are affecting the U.S. and global economy. Posen talks with Robert Siegel.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that he expects the U.S. economy to "slow noticeably" in coming months as the housing slump intensifies. Bernanke also said the economy has shown considerable resilience and should rebound next year.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, under intense domestic and international pressure, announced a mid-February date for parliamentary elections and pledged to remove his uniform. Ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto called on Musharraf to step down as Army chief within a week.