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I keep the radio on all night long, each & every night, and I have, ever since 9/10/2001 --- I keep BBC World Service on in the background --- and if something major happens anywhere on the globe, I wake up, because the BBC announcers & news readers immediately sound so very different.

I hear plenty of stuff on NPR early in the morning after BBC goes off the air, and before I'm inclined to get up and turn off the radio.

Not EVERYTHING on NPR is vile, I actually frequently listen to Marketplace -- the other morning there was a very interesting segment about Oklahoma, that unemployment is VERY VERY VERY low in Oklahoma, due to a couple factors. First, the entire populations seems to remember the Droughty Dirty 30s, Oklahoma was Ground Zero for plenty of massive dust storms; and secondly because there was a mini "oil boom" and subsequent crash during the 1980s - and thus there really weren't any people in Oklahoma who ever got particularly excited about the housing bubble.

There's plenty of similar interesting stuff available on NPR, but I don't listen to any of theie political stuff, nor any of the artsy stuff - pretty much just economics and breaking news. I don't need patience for that.

I hear plenty of stuff on NPR early in the morning after BBC goes off the air, and before I'm inclined to get up and turn off the radio.

LOL!

I wasn't criticising your listening to NPR. Just saying I couldn't do it. We do need to see what the other side is saying, but I'm not the one to do it! I'd have a broken radio or TV.

That's interesting about OK. It's on the top of my list of places to relocate to. It's one of the most conservative states we have, voting R in the 2008 elections more than any other. Not that all the R's are conservative, but it's still telling. And they had some great anti-illegal alien legislation passed and not shot down by an activist judge as well. So they know how to do it right, and not just play games.