Starting July 1:
SATURDAYS
10am Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (New time)
11am Only A Game
SUNDAYS
2pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Only A Game: Saturdays at 11am
Great stories and storytelling explore the human side of sports on Only A Game.
Produced by WBUR and hosted by award-winning, veteran NPR commentator Bill Littlefield, Only A Game offers a mix of compelling insight and deeply told narratives. Surprising, personal, utterly enjoyable. And it’s NPR’s only sports show.
The hour-long weekly program features Littlefield’s exceptional writing, affable personality and great storytelling. Only A Game uses the power of audio to explore the place of sports and competition in our culture.
Whether it’s the former major leaguer who’s trying to bring baseball back to Chicago’s inner city, the 1942 Rose Bowl rivals who met again on a WWII battlefield or the surprising history of the sports bra, Only A Game finds great stories other outlets might overlook.
Notable voices on the show have included Basketball Hall of Famer, author and humanitarian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tennis Hall of Famer and activist Billie Jean King, NBA greats Bill Walton and Shaquille O’Neal, tennis superstars Serena Williams and Rod Laver, NFL Hall of Famers Ozzie Newsome and Steve Young, Olympians Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, and comedian and marathoner Eddie Izzard.
From Little League to the Big Leagues, from the stadium full of fans to the solitary weekend runner, Only A Game stitches together stories of sports and people with the special craft of NPR.
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Sundays at 2pm
From street food in Thailand to a bakery in a Syrian refugee camp to how one scientist uses state of the art pollen analysis to track the origins of honey (and also to solve cold murder cases), Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio goes anywhere and everywhere to ask questions and get answers about cooking, food, culture, wine, farming, restaurants, literature, and the lives and cultures of the people who grow, produce, and create the food we eat. With a four-star cast of contributors including Sara Moulton (long-time public television host and cookbook author), Adam Gopnik (contributing writer for The New Yorker), Stephen Meuse (wine writer and expert), Dan Pashman (host of The Sporkful podcast) and host Christopher Kimball (founder of Cook’s Magazine, long-time public TV/radio host/founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street).
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street in downtown Boston — at 177 Milk Street — is home to our editorial offices and cooking school. It also is where we record Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street television and radio shows. Milk Street is changing how we cook by searching the world for bold, simple recipes and techniques. Adapted and tested for home cooks everywhere, these lessons are the backbone of what we call the new home cooking.