Maine Things Considered covers Maine and the surrounding region with in-depth reporting. Hear the news of the day presented in a unique and thought-provoking half-hour.

Morning Classical Music with Suzanne Nance provides a musical oasis for your ears each weekday morning from 9:00 am to noon. Hear masterworks from the greats, the best in contemporary classical and plenty of local music as well.

Friday Night Jazz with Rich Tozier plays cuts from the 1961 collaboration between trumpeters Harold "Shorty" Baker and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham.

Speaking in Maine features Dr. Richard Sims, Ph.D., chief economist at the National Education Association. He discusses the future of education from an economic perspective.

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Live at 11 returns to Morning Classical Music with Suzanne Nance when Wilson Bristol, a 17-year-old pianist, visits the Bangor studio for a live performance. Bristol has been chosen by From the Top for the Maine show on March 24th.

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Commonwealth Club of California features Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills. He argues that the atomic bomb paved the way for presidential authority that has “enfeebled” Congress and the courts, and that reached its apex with George W. Bush.

The Really Big Questions continue with one about religion. How does science account for religious belief? Wherever we look, in every corner of human history, we find religion. No other living species has it, why do we?

America Abroad visits the world's poorest Arab nation, Yemen. A bulging youth population coupled with a sagging economy is tearing at the country's fabric.

Friday Night Jazz with Rich Tozier pays homage to a talent deserving of much wider recognition. Versatile veteran saxophonist Hadley Caliman has a new CD, Straight Ahead, and Rich plays a sampling.

The BBC’s Changing World correspondent Mike Wooldridge explores factors that keep a billion people trapped in poverty. In this program he investigates the status of women in Nicaragua and looks at an unorthodox scheme for distributing public assistance in a Namibian village.