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 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
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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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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
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1K Avg Length 52 min Get Email Contact
3. 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
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1KInstagram 8.4K Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact
4. Garden Talk
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Join host Larry Meiller as he discusses gardening topics with his guests.
Host Larry Meiller
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1KInstagram 8.4K Avg Length 100 min 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
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 14.9KTwitter 1.9KInstagram 1.7K 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
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7. 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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8. Zorba Paster On Your Health
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Wisconsin and the World.
Hosts Zorba Paster, Karl Christenson
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 14.3KTwitter 1K 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
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Apple Rating 3.8/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1KInstagram 8.4K Avg Length 87 min 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
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1K Avg Length 65 min 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
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Apple Rating 3/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1KInstagram 8.4K Avg Length 45 min 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 75.3KTwitter 31.1K Avg Length 4 min 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
Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 75.3K Avg Length 51 min 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.
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Wisconsin Public Radio Station shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Twitter Handle | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Meiller | Host | wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show | 1 | @lmeillershow | |
| Leigh Ann Henion | Host | ttbook.org/archives | @lahenion | ||
| Norman Gilliland | Co Host | wpr.org/programs/university-air | @gillilandnorman | ||
| Emily Auerbach | Co Host | wpr.org/programs/university-air | |||
| Larry Meiller | Host | wpr.org/shows/garden-talk | @lmeillershow | ||
| Angela Fitzgerald | Co Host | wisconsinlife.org | |||
| Maureen McCollum | Co Host | wisconsinlife.org | @maureenmccollum | ||
| Doug Gordon | Host | wpr.org/programs/beta | @douglasmgordon | ||
| Zorba Paster | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | @drzorba | ||
| Karl Christenson | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | |||
| Ezra Wall | Host | wpr.org/shows/newsmakers | |||
| trina.lasusa | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 9 | |||
| Tyler Ditter | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 9 | |||
| migrator | wpr.org/shows/newsmakers | 8 | |||
| Steve Gotcher | wpr.org/shows/beta | 6 | |||
| Ezra Wall | wpr.org/shows/newsmakers | 5 | |||
| Robin Washington | wpr.org/shows/simply-superior | 3 | |||
| David Hyland | wpr.org/shows/beta | 2 | |||
| Adam Friedrich | wpr.org/shows/beta | 2 | |||
| sarah.hopefl | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 1 | |||
| richelle.wilson | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 1 | |||
| Colleen Leahy | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 1 | |||
| Beatrice Lawrence | wpr.org/shows/central-time | 1 | |||
| tom.blain | npr.org/podcasts/381443653/university-of-the-air | 1 | |||
| Keegan Kyle | wpr.org/shows/beta | 1 |