Started in 1931, "Chapter a Day" is WPR's longest-running program. Jim Fleming, Norman Gilliland, Michele Good, Melvin Hinton, Baron Kelly a
I wanted to share something really cool and book-related I discovered recently with all of the talk about public radio losing funding, which is Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter A Day program! It's exactly what it sounds like: every week day, someone reads a book for half an hour. Most recently, it was All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley, which was SO good, and they're starting a new book on Monday.
You don't have to live in Wisconsin to listen to it, as you can stream it online.
I don't think you have to live in the U.S., but I haven't tested this.
You don't even need to tune in while it's happening live, as they archive the chapters and leave them up until a week after the last chapter airs (they're then taken down for copyright reasons).
According to this Wikipedia page, Chapter A Day is the ninth-longest-running radio program in the world, which is really neat!
It's free, but going back to the funding thing, the U.S. House recently approved a measure to "claw back" around $9.4 billion USD in funding that Congress had already approved, including $1.1 billion allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses the money in part to support local radio and TV stations around the country. The U.S. Senate has not yet voted on this, and they might not (if they don't by July 18, 2025, it expires and the money gets spent). However, if you check this program out and enjoy it, you can donate to Wisconsin Public Radio here.
