15 Best Wisconsin Public Radio Station Podcasts
Wisconsin Public Radio Station Podcasts
Here are 15 Best Wisconsin Public Radio Station Podcasts worth listening to in 2026. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
Export Contact List Play All1. The Larry Meiller Show
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Join host Larry Meiller every weekday from 11 a.m. to 01:00 p.m. on WPR News stations as he discusses environmental and consumer issues, gardening and helpful 'how-to' topics with his guests.MORE Host Larry Meiller
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wisc.edu
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 85Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5K Avg Length 100 min Format Extended Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google
2. To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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'To the Best of Our Knowledge' is a Peabody award-winning national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians, and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose, and wonder in daily life. Whether it's about bees, poetry, skin, or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected to our common humanity and to the world we share...MORE Host Leigh Ann Henion
Producer/Network TTBOOK
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 1KFacebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5K Avg Length 50 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
3. Garden Talk from Wisconsin Public Radio
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Join host Larry Meiller as he discusses gardening topics with his guests.
Host Larry Meiller
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 22Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5KInstagram 18.8K Avg Length 100 min Format Extended Get Email Contact
4. University of the Air
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Hosts Norman Gilliland and Emily Auerbach invite distinguished faculty guests from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss topics in music, art, writing, theater, science, education, and history.MORE Hosts Norman Gilliland, Emily Auerbach
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 29Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5KInstagram 18.8K Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
5. Wisconsin Life
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Wisconsin Life celebrates the people, places, history and culture of the state. Come with us as we kayak the Mississippi River, interview musicians in Milwaukee, and bake pasties in Rhinelander. We connect you with diverse people and ideas through short stories updated twice a week.MORE Hosts Angela Fitzgerald, Maureen McCollum
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 42Facebook 15.1KTwitter 1.9KInstagram 2.2K Get Email Contact
6. BETA
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'BETA' comes from producer/host Doug Gordon. BETA is a polyphonic mosh pit where high culture and low culture collide, taking an immersive, innovative, playful and provocative approach to exploring arts, culture and technology.MORE Host Doug Gordon
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 35Facebook 81.1K Get Email Contact
7. Zorba Paster On Your Health
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Wisconsin and the World.
Hosts Zorba Paster, Karl Christenson
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 210Facebook 15.1KTwitter 1K Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
8. Simply Folk Interviews
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Simply Folk has aired over one hundred interviews and studio performances from both long-time and up-and-coming folk musicians. We're happy to create this separate website and podcast of these recordings.MORE Email https://twitter.com/simplyfolkwpr
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Facebook 81.1KTwitter 158 Get Email Contact
9. The Morning Show
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'The Morning Show' is a live, call-in program hosted by Kate Archer Kent that provides news and thoughtful conversation through a Wisconsin lens. We seek diverse voices on state and national news, arts, culture and social issues.MORE Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 3.8/5Apple Reviews 14Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5KInstagram 18.8K Avg Length 87 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
10. Central Time
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Hosted by Rob Ferrett, 'Central Time' takes a unique approach to cover a variety of topics. Executive producer Dean Knetter and producers Tim Peterson, Colleen Leahy, Lorin Cox, Beatrice Lawrence, and Richelle Wilson explore the latest news, cultural trends, and explore ideas -- big and small -- finding the best guests to discuss these thought-provoking topics. Sarah Hopefl is the program's technical director.MORE Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 18Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5K Avg Length 65 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
11. Newsmakers
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'Newsmakers' is a weekly news and current affairs talk show produced by WPR's La Crosse News Bureau. The program's host/producer is Ezra Wall (pictured above) with La Crosse senior news editor/producer John Davis. Interviews on the program explore politics, education, the environment and other regional issues relevant to southwest Wisconsin and adjacent portions of Minnesota and Iowa.MORE Host Ezra Wall
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 3/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5KInstagram 18.8K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
12. Bookmarks
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Great writers are great readers. And they have amazing stories to tell. Not just about the books they write, but about the books they read. Anne Strainchamps and the producers behind 'To the Best of Our Knowledge' have been asking authors for years to tell a story about that one book that left a mark. A book they can't forget. A book that changed everything.Now they're sharing these stories with you, delivered in a weekly micro-podcast. New bite-sized episodes every Friday.Learn more at ttbook.org/bookmarks.MORE Producer/Network TTBOOK
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 47Facebook 81.1KTwitter 28.5K Avg Length 4 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact
13. Route 51
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'Route 51' is a regional talk show hosted by Shereen Siewert focusing on issues important to the north-central Wisconsin area, as well as featuring regional music, culture, and arts. Topics include proposed legislation, sustainability, health care, economics, agriculture, and the justice system.MORE Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 6Facebook 81.1K Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
14. Simply Superior
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'Simply Superior' is a public affairs program focused on events and issues in Northwestern Wisconsin hosted by award-winning journalist Robin Washington.
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Facebook 81.1K Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
Wisconsin Public Radio Station shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Gender | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | Location | |
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| Larry Meiller | Host | wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show | 1 | Male | @lmeillershow | Madison, WI, United States | ||
| Leigh Ann Henion | Host | ttbook.org/archives | Female | @lahenion | NC, United States | |||
| Larry Meiller | Host | wpr.org/shows/garden-talk | Male | @lmeillershow | Madison, WI, United States | |||
| Norman Gilliland | Co Host | wpr.org/programs/university-air | 1 | Male | @gillilandnorman | United States | ||
| Emily Auerbach | Co Host | wpr.org/programs/university-air | 1 | Female | ||||
| Angela Fitzgerald | Co Host | wisconsinlife.org | Female | Madison, WI, United States | ||||
| Maureen McCollum | Co Host | wisconsinlife.org | Female | @maureenmccollum | Madison, WI, United States | |||
| Doug Gordon | Host | wpr.org/programs/beta | 2 | Male | @douglasmgordon | Madison, WI, United States | ||
| Zorba Paster | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | Male | @drzorba | Madison, WI, United States | |||
| Karl Christenson | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | Male | Waunakee, WI, United States | ||||
| Ezra Wall | Host | wpr.org/shows/newsmakers | 5 | Male | ||||
| Mackenzie Krumme | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 15 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Keegan Kyle | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 11 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Avery Lea Rogers | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 11 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Royce Podeszwa | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 8 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Tyler Ditter | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 8 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| trina.lasusa | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 7 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Robin Washington | wpr.org/programs/simply-superior | 5 | ||||||
| Trevor Hook | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 5 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Courtney Everett | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 4 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| richelle.wilson | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 3 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| sarah.hopefl | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 2 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| keegan.kyle | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 2 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Joe Tarr | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 2 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| nate.imig | wpr.org/shows/morning-show | 1 | @wpr | 28.5K | ||||
| Colleen Leahy | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 1 | @wpr | 28.5K |