Programs

National shows

Mountain Stage
Saturday: 7am (2 hours)
Live performance of intelligent, contemporary music seasoned with traditional and roots artists, hosted by Larry Groce.

1,081 – Paul Thorn, Ray Benson, Sunny Sweeney, Andy Friedman – NPR's Mountain Stage

This episode was recorded on May 17th, 2026 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV. The lineup includes Paul Thorn, Ray Benson, Sunny Sweeney, Andy Friedman. https://bit.ly/4afWiMG⁠

Radiolab
Sunday: 5am (1 hour)
A show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, blurring boundaries between science, philosophy, and human experience.

The Gondolier – Radiolab

Back in 2017, reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad came to us with a story that dug into the difficult and often dark places discrimination creates. We start in Venice, Italy, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon.  We circled back to Alex in 2026, to find out where the canal of life ended up leading after our initial reporting, and we’ve included some heartbreaking and heartwarming updates on Alex’s life at the end of this episode.  Special thanks to Alexis Ungerer, Summer, Alex Hai, Kevin Gotkin, Silvia Del Fabbro, Sandro Mariot, Aldo Rosso and Marta Vannucci, The Longest Shortest Time (Hillary Frank, Peter Clowney and Abigail Keel), Tim Howard, Nick Adams/GLAAD, Valentina Powers, Florence Ursino, Ann Marie Somma, Alex Overington, Jeremy Bloom and the people of Little Italy.  EPISODE CREDITS:  Reported by – David Conrad and Kristen Clark. Produced by – Annie McEwen and Molly Webster. with help from – Anisa Vietze Fact-checking for the update by – Angely Mercado OTHER COOL THINGS: Books – The Gondolier, by Alex Hai Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sound Opinions
Sunday: 6pm (1 hour)
Rock critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis interview artists, discover new releases, and reveal historical trends.

A Listener's Chip Taylor Deep Cut – Sound Opinions

In this bonus episode, Jim follows up his Chip Taylor tribute by responding to a listener who pointed out one of the country legend's incredible collaborations.Join our Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3sivr9TBecome a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvcSign up for our newsletter: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2136865Make a donation via PayPal: https://bit.ly/3dmt9lUSend us a Voice Memo: Desktop: bit.ly/2RyD5Ah  Mobile: sayhi.chat/soundopsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

StarDate
Daily: 6pm and 9pm (2 minutes)
The University of Texas McDonald Observatory introduces you to the stars, astronomical events and space exploration.

Deneb – StarDate

The bright star that marks the tail of the swan is big, bright, and heavy. If you want to know how big, bright, and heavy, well, the most precise answer we can give you is “very.” We know for sure that Deneb is one of the more imposing stars around. But the details are a little hazy because the star’s distance is hazy. In part, that’s because of Deneb’s impressiveness. The most accurate stellar distances come from Gaia, a space telescope. But Deneb is so bright that Gaia can’t look at it directly. Instead, it has to study the star indirectly – sort of like checking something out through the corner of its eye. It takes a lot of work to translate those glimpses into solid numbers. In addition, the star’s outer layers are puffy and unstable, so it’s hard to know just where its surface is. And you need a good idea of the surface to measure the star’s location. The best estimates say that Deneb is about 1500 light-years away – one of the most remote stars that’s visible to the eye alone. But other estimates say it’s almost twice that far. So based on that range, Deneb is about 15 to 20 times the mass of the Sun, 100 to 200 times the Sun’s diameter, and 50 thousand to 200 thousand times its brightness – impressive numbers for a very impressive star. Deneb is a third of the way up the northeastern sky at nightfall, and soars high overhead during the night. Script by Damond Benningfield

The Latin Alternative
Tuesday: 5am (1 hour)
Josh Norek and Ernesto Lechner focus on crossover-friendly Latin rock, electronic, funk, and hip-hop artists.

The Latin Alternative / Blues Music (Latino Style) – ft. Santana, Los Lonely Boys, Bunbury, Diamante Electrico, Andres Calamaro – The Latin Alternative

This week is an exploration of Blues music, Latino style.  Featured artists include Santana, Los Lonely Boys, Diamante Electrico, Bunbury, Andres Calamaro and many more.

This American Life
Monday: 9am (1 hour)
Host Ira Glass explores a weekly theme through a playful mix of radio monologues, mini-documentaries, found tape, and short fiction.

128: Four Corners – This American Life

We try to tell the story of life in America through portraits of life on four different corners, in four different states across the nation. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription.Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks about the Four Corners tourist monument where Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet. (2 minutes)Act One: Sarah Vowell has a theory that you can tell the entire history of the United States by standing on one street corner—specifically at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive in Chicago—and describing all the events that happened within eyeshot of the corner. She covers three centuries of history, from Louis Joliet to Keanu Reeves. (21 minutes)Act Two: Scott Richer and Julie Riggs of Louisville, Kentucky, were supposed to have their first kiss at the corner where South Fourth Street meets the alley behind the West End Baptist Church. But it went wrong. (7 minutes)Act Three: Writer Mike Paterniti tells a story of dogs and a community of dogwalkers that formed on the grounds of an old cemetery at the corner of Vaughn and Clifford in Portland, Maine. (14 minutes)Act Four: Writer Achy Obejas reads a piece of short fiction from her book, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (11 minutes)Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.orgThis American Life privacy policy.Learn more about sponsor message choices.

KGLT shows

Chrysti the Wordsmith
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12pm and 6pm (2 minutes)
A daily, two-minute audio interlude produced in the studios of KGLT-FM at Montana State University, Bozeman. Since 1990, Chrysti “the Wordsmith” Smith has been plumbing the depths of dictionaries obscure, arcane and pedestrian to craft word and phrase histories for her radio audience.

Listeners Personals
Monday–Friday: 12pm (3 minutes)
A quick round up of found and missing pets and stuff.

Montana Medicine Show
Sunday: 10am, Tuesday and Thursday: 12pm 6pm, Saturday: 12pm (2 minutes)
A short Montana history lesson. Thanks to thank Humanities Montana, The Greater Montana Foundation, and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting for their support.

KGLT Kids
Monday: 9am, Tuesday: 4pm
A two-minute audio from the local KGLT Kids Songwriting workshops and their performances at Red Ants Pants Festival, sharing their audio creations and talent.

Unzipping the Weekend/Around Town
(Unzipping) Thursday–Saturday: 6pm and 9pm and Saturday: 12pm
(Around) Monday–Wednesday: 10am, 3pm, and 7pm, Thursday – Friday: 10am, 3pm
A roundup of entertainment and events in the Bozeman area. (Musicians: Tell us the time and place of your gigs via 📧email.)