Effective July 5, 2025, NHPR is refreshing our weekend lineup to bring you even more compelling storytelling, science, music, and pop culture. From local gardening tips to global conversations, there’s something new—and something familiar—waiting for you every weekend.
Don’t worry—longtime favorites like Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, This American Life, TED Radio Hour and Hidden Brain are still part of our weekend schedule. We’ve shifted their time slots slightly to make room for this new and expanded coverage of nature, science, music, and literature.
Saturdays
7:00 AM – Unexpected Elements (BBC) The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way. Start your Saturday with surprising science stories and global curiosity in this lively program from the BBC.
Homegrown NH will air each week during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m.
This show is replacing TED Radio Hour, but fear not! You can still catch the TED Radio Hour Sundays at 3 p.m.NHPR is discontinuing Reveal.
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8:35 AM – Homegrown NH (during Weekend Edition) Our new short-form segment features expert gardening tips and local inspiration from horticulturist Emma Erler and NHPR’s Jessica Hunt. Paired with BirdNotes for a double dose of nature.
11:00 AM – Outside/In (30 mins) Back by popular demand, Outside/In returns to NHPR’s Saturday morning lineup. At Outside/In, we explore that idea with boundless curiosity. We report from disaster zones, pickleball courts, and dog sled kennels, and talk about policy, pop culture, science, and everything in between. From the backcountry to your backyard, we tell stories that expand the boundaries of environmental journalism.
This new program is pushing back This American Life to 12:00 p.m. and Hidden Brain to 1:00 p.m.; NHPR is discontinuing Code Switch/Life Kit.
11:30 AM – Common Land (30 mins)
Common Land explores the creation stories behind protected land. Each season of the show takes a deep dive into history, science and politics.
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This new program is pushing back This American Life to 12:00 p.m. and Hidden Brain to 1:00 p.m.; NHPR is discontinuing Code Switch/Life Kit.
3:00 PM – NHPR Books A brand-new space for locally produced author interviews, book recommendations, and literary voices from around the world. Tune in each week to hear new and archival Writers on a New England Stage episodes, Authors on Main, and Check This Out.
6:00–8:00 PM – Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show, first aired in 1983, produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide by NPR. If you love Live from the Word Barn and The Folk Show, you’ll love Mountain Stage.
This program replaces World Cafe which NHPR is discontinuing.
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6:00–8:00 PM – Saturday Request Live (airing the last Saturday of the month) Gather ‘round the radio for Saturday Request Live, a new live music call-in show– hosted by NHPR’s Joe Boehnlein– to air the last Saturday of each month from 6 -8 p.m.
10:00 PM – eTown Radio eTown is a nonprofit, nationally syndicated radio broadcast/podcast, multimedia and events production company. Since 1991, eTown has produced musical, social and environmental programming to uplift and inspire listeners around the world. The eTown community comes for the music, and stays for the message.
11:00 PM – Beale Street Caravan For more than 20 years, Beale Street Caravan has been capturing and exporting the sounds of Memphis and the Delta region. It is our mission to celebrate the culture of our region by sharing our music with the world.
Beale Street Caravan, the most widely distributed blues radio program in the world, attracts more than 2.4 million listeners each week. Produced in the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock & roll, Beale Street Caravan covers the world with The Sounds of Memphis.
Sundays
6:00 AM – Outside/In Couldn’t catch it Saturday? We’ve got you covered with an early-morning encore.
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6:30 AM – Common Land Another chance to hear environmental storytelling from protected lands across the United States.
This new program is pushing back Kelly Corrigan to 7:00 a.m.. NHPR is discontinuing Living on Earth
1:00 PM – The Sam Sanders Show The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW is your guide to entertainment. Find out what makes your favorite artists tick, dissect the trends that shape our culture, or just make sense of that random meme you can’t stop thinking about. Join us every week to unpack the pop culture we love.
This program replaces Milk Street Radio which NHPR is discontinuing.
2:00 PM – Freakonomics Radio Exploring the hidden side of everything—from economics to human behavior. Hosted by Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics Radio explores things you always thought you knew (but didn’t) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do). Some of our most popular episodes are about the economics of sleep and how to become great at just about anything, plus the true stories of rent control, minimum wage, and the gender pay gap.
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This new program is pushing back TED Radio Hour to 3:00 p.m.. NHPR is discontinuing Reveal.
A staple of many New Hampshire town fairs, the pig scramble may soon look a little different.
A bill signed into law by Gov. Kelly Ayotte last week requires the commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture to create best practices for any event in which people compete to capture a pig. Those guidelines will be published before the 2027 fair season, so they won’t be in place for any fairs with pig scrambles this year, such as the upcoming Deerfield Fair in the fall.
Generally, a pig scramble involves people of the same age competing to capture pigs that have been let loose in a large pen. Contestants have to catch the pig in a drawstring bag, and the first one to do so can take the pig home.
Rep. Cathryn Harvey, a Democrat from Spofford, is the prime sponsor of the bill. She said each fair has different rules for their pig scrambles, meaning some can be more humane than others. One aspect of the events she hopes will change is the bags pigs are captured in.
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“They’re putting an animal in a plastic bag on a hot summer day,” Harvey said. “It isn’t a great idea.”
Although some fairs already use more breathable bags out of burlap, Joan O’Brien, president of the New Hampshire Animal Rights League, said she’s also seen pigs being kept in plastic bags for long periods of time after the event. Not only would a burlap bag improve the pig’s ability to breathe in the heat, she said, but she also wants fairs to require participants to bring an animal carrier for the trip home. Her organization was ultimately in favor of the legislation.
“If you don’t have a carrier, you should not be allowed to leave your pig lying in a bag,” O’Brien said, adding that some fairs already ask contestants to bring carriers. “You should be taking them right home.”
The Deerfield Fair has implemented another rule that O’Brien and Harvey hope becomes part of statewide best practices — having parents supervise their child in the pen. O’Brien once witnessed a child hang a pig upside down by its legs and then lower it headfirst into the bag.
“In the heat of the moment, the kids get excited and they just do whatever it takes to get the pig in the bag,” O’Brien said. She said parents should work with the event referee to make sure their kid is handling the pig humanely.
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Harvey’s bill originally called for pig scrambles to be banned around the state, but both she and O’Brien feel that universal guidelines for fairs would still make the experience better for the animals. Even seemingly small things, Harvey said, like giving the pigs water after the scramble, would be an improvement to the current situation for them.
“I think that the bill will embolden people to speak up at these events,” O’Brien said. “If they think a pig is being mistreated, they’ll be able to say to themselves, ‘I know that there’s supposed to be a rule, so I’m going to say something.’ So I think that would be a good outcome.”
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services collected samples of the unknown substance found in Sunapee Harbor and will be testing them tomorrow. Authorities say the spill was contained and prevented from spreading further.
HAMPSTEAD, N.H. (WHDH) – Authorities have launched an investigation after responding to a reported untimely death in Hampstead, New Hampshire, officials said.
The Attorney General’s Office is investigating the untimely death of a woman at a home in Hampstead, Attorney General John M. Formella announced.
While the investigation is just beginning, there is no known threat to the general public at this time.
The exact circumstances surrounding this incident remain under active investigation.
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