Schedules

• 12:00 am
  All Things Considered Seaway Pipeline and Gas Prices This weekend, the company operating a huge oil pipeline from the Gulf Coast to Cushing, Oklahoma will reverse the direction oil is flowing. Instead of bringing oil into the middle of the country, it will export oil out. It's another sign the U.S. energy picture is changing. For one, it will lead to higher gasoline prices for those living in the middle of the country.
• 1:00 am
  This Week in Northern California International Orange Exhibition On Memorial Day weekend, an unprecedented art exhibition honoring the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge will open at Fort Point. Scott Shafer gets a sneak preview with a visit to the studio of artist Anandamayi Arnold, who is making a vibrant series of dresses made almost entirely from crepe paper. The colorful creations pay homage to the Spanish-style dresses worn by the "Fiesta Queens" who helped kick off the Golden Gate Bridge's opening ceremonies in 1937.
• 1:30 am
  Soundprint Segment One: Hockey Diaries At the start of the 2008-2009 hockey season, two Canadian players packed up their gear and headed east to Washington D.C., home of the NHL Washington Capitals. Nineteen-year-old British Columbia rookie Karl Alzner was hoping to win a coveted spot on the team. Saskatchewan veteran Brooks Laich had just signed a new 3-year contract and was anxious to get started. Both players carried audio diaries that they would use to document their season. This is the story of that unfolded, from the exhaustion and suspense of training camp all the way to the exhilaration and emotion of the playoffs.
• 2:00 am
  Commonwealth Club ExxonMobil and American Power The program's guest is Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation, former managing editor at the Washington Post and author of "Private Empire." Early in 2001, ExxonMobil was part of a broad effort that convinced newly elected George W. Bush to drop his campaign pledge to tackle carbon dioxide emissions. In 2009, 12 days before President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the company changed its tune. CEO Rex Tillerson announced limited support for a carbon tax. Today ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress than any other corporation, and in countries where it extracts oil, its influence is said to tower above the U.S. embassy. Within the energy industry, it is regarded as a highly efficient and profitable corporate machine with high safety standards and relatively low rates of accidents and spills. Steve Coll joins the show for a rare glimpse into one of the most secretive and powerful companies in the world.
• 3:00 am
  Washington Week 2012 Election Update With recent polls showing Obama and Romney in a dead heat, the show gets analysis on the 2012 presidential race developments from Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times and Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post.
• 3:30 am
  Inside Europe Hollande Gets Down to Business There was a changing of the guard in France this week, as Francois Hollande was sworn in as the republic's new president. Hollande, who heads France's Socialist party, didn't let any dust settle before getting down to business. Within hours of taking office, he rushed off to Germany for his first state visit. France and Germany, the EU's strongest economies, have been at the forefront of decisions to save the Eurozone from crisis.
• 4:00 am
  It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) Roll of the Dice - Iran With the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama closed one chapter of U.S. history. Unfortunately, the next is looming large. As years of sanctions and careful diplomatic negotiations with Iran deteriorate into an increasingly fragile state of affairs, President Obama is left with few choices. The program's guest is Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author of the new book, "A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran." He contends that diplomacy with Iran did not fail -- it was abandoned. Real diplomacy has barely been tried, he argues, and it remains the only promising option for achieving America's goals with regard to Iran.
• 5:00 am
  Weekend Edition
MORNING
• 7:00 am
  Weekend Edition

  Perspectives7:36am & 8:36am
  
  
• 9:00 am
  Weekend Edition
• 10:00 am
  Car Talk
• 11:00 am
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  This American Life Special Fundraising Show Special Fundraising Show
• 1:00 pm
  Radio Specials Loops So much of life is organized by cycles: seasons, biological rhythms and even our ideas of consciousness. Radiolab looks at some of the surprising ways that loops steer our lives -- and asks what happens when we disturb them.
• 2:00 pm
  Moyers & Company Tom Morello - Troubadour for Justice Music and the quest for justice have long been intertwined, and the troubadours of troubling times -- Guthrie, Baez, Dylan, and Springsteen among them -- have become famous for their dedication to both. Now we can add a name to the ranks of those who lift their voices for social and economic justice: Tom Morello. Morello is the Harvard-educated guitarist who dabbled in politics, then chose rock music to make a difference. He played guitar for the popular band he co-founded, Rage Against the Machine, and then for Audioslave. Rolling Stone chose his album "World Wide Rebel Songs" as one of the best of 2011, and named him one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Morello joins Bill Moyers in the studio.
• 3:00 pm
  BBC World Service
• 4:00 pm
  Living On Earth Clean Up Green Up Environmentalists in Los Angeles say they have a new approach to cleaning up some of the most polluted neighborhoods. The new plan calls for special zoning, would limit pollution and prioritize funding for small industries to purchase cleaner equipment. As the program reports, the pilot project aligns environmental interests with those of local businesses.
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  A Prairie Home Companion All in a Tangle The program revisits two shows from Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. Steve Martin endures a few banjo jokes and joins The Steep Canyon Rangers; Martin Sheen appears as Jimmy Flannigan, concert pianist, in an episode of Guy Noir; and Heather Masse sings her "Bird Song."
• 8:00 pm
  Selected Shorts Miracles Can Happen Cynthia Nixon reads "The Fall of Texas" by Joyce Johnson; Staceyann Chin reads "Personal Letter 2," by Sonia Sanchez; and Isaiah Sheffer reads "The Fix" by Percival Everett.
• 9:00 pm
  This American Life Reap What You Sow Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport." And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama -- but not just the undocumented ones. The show presents that and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.
• 10:00 pm
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
• 11:00 pm
  Snap Judgment