News/Talk Programs
Becoming A Waterman
Becoming a Waterman chronicles some six decades of life and lessons learned making a living with a boat on the Chesapeake Bay. Tune in every Friday at noon for another installment.Captain Fred Pomeroy started crabbing when he was 16 years old, and hasn't stopped since. A poet, teacher, builder and farmer by turns, he continues the lore and the legends of those who feel weather in their bones and fishing in their blood.
The Grands Club
The Grands Club, hosted by Kathy Bernard (AKA one of the 2BoomerBabes), is dedicated to empowering, connecting, and enriching the lives of modern grandparents. Through engaging content, expert advice, and heartfelt stories from celebrities and everyday grands living the moment, the show celebrates the wisdom, joy, adventures of grandparenting and always with a dose of humor! The Grands Club provides a trusted platform where grandparents and parents can exchange knowledge, foster multigenerational relationships, and embrace the evolving role of grandparenting in today’s world.
Arts In Action
Arts in Action features lively conversations with Eastern Shore artists and organizations that offer visual art, music, theater, literature. Support comes from Talbot Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council.
This Is How The Story Goes
From a hilarious account of being kicked out of a Pilates class to an astonishing precognitive dream, “This is How the Story Goes” is warm and generous storytelling at its best. These intimate tales inspire universal wonder and thought-provoking possibility, as listeners reconsider what they think they know of reality, reconnect with their best memories, laugh, reflect, and come to like themselves a bit better.With a voice reminiscent of David Sedaris, Anne Lamott and Garrison Keillor, Oliver charms, informs, heals, and entertains. Every story is a love story to listeners and to life itself, with joy the secret subject of every episode.
Weekend Morning Edition
A Way With Words
Marketplace
Listen to Marketplace to get the day’s biggest business stories, our economic analysis, and explainers to help you live smarter, straight to you every weekday evening.
Big Picture Science
Big Picture Science is an independently-produced national radio show and podcast that draws listeners into the world of science through surprising, even playful, conversations with scientists and science journalists within themed one-hour episodes.Join astronomer Seth Shostak and science journalist Molly Bentley each week for a smart and accessible take on emerging scientific research.
Shore Stories
Morning Edition
2 Boomer Babes
2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour, is a weekly feature that highlights a variety of the most relevant issues to the largest generation, with discussion topics ranging from caretaking of elderly parents, to your health, popular culture, and relationships. Hosts Kathy Bernard and Barbara Kline are enthusiastically traveling the same road as the nearly 78 million other boomers while exemplifying the spirit of “living in the boomer moment.” Kline and Bernard are not shy about adding their own insights and understanding to the conversation, and always top it off with a generous dose of great humor and laughter.
All Things Considered
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every day the show is hosted by Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow.
This American Life
This American Life is a weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.Mostly we do journalism, but an entertaining kind of journalism that’s built around plot. In other words, stories! Our favorite sorts of stories have compelling people at the center of them, funny moments, big feelings, surprising plot twists, and interesting ideas. Like little movies for radio.
Mid-Shore Mid-Day
MPT
Maryland Public Television, commonly known as MPT, is a public television network that broadcasts throughout the entire state of Maryland and the District of Columbia and into parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. MPT is Maryland's only statewide broadcaster. Headquartered in Owings Mills, MPT is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and is a producer of both locally and nationally distributed TV programs and digital content.
Chesapeake Born
Chesapeake Born features essays on the life in and around Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.
Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From an American
Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian. Her nightly post, Letters from an American, puts current events in the larger context of history and documents the overall health of American democracy. The author of seven books on American history, including most recently Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, she was the first author with over a million Substack subscribers. Letters from an American now has more than 4 million subscribers on Substack and Facebook. Tune in weekdays for Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American exclusively here on the Mid-Shore on Radio Chesapeake, 91.7 FM