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Avid public radio listeners know Tom Papa as a regular panelist and guest host on NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and for his role on the program "Live From Here." He'll be in Kansas City for a stand-up comedy set this Saturday.

For many Missourians, especially in rural or low-income areas, public radio and television are far more than entertainment. They’re essential services — but now, those services are under threat.

Public broadcasting stations could lose significant funding if the Trump administration succeeds at defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — critically endangering access to local journalism for many Kansas communities.

DOGE staffers tried to assign a team to the independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting after President Trump's purported firing of three board members last month.

President Trump signed an executive order that aims to end federal funding for NPR and PBS. What does this mean for your local public media outlets? Hear KCUR’s general manager describe what this means for our station.

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

Blanche began hosting Night Tides on KCUR 89.3 in 1994. Celebrate her anniversary this Thursday at Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and public radio host Maria Hinojosa will be in Kansas City on Thursday for a conversation about her memoir "Once I Was You."

The Moth's monthly storytelling open mic events, known as StorySLAMs, are coming to Kansas City, starting with a Sept. 12 date at Knuckleheads. The theme for this edition is "firsts."

Jenn White, the host of the show 1A, is coming to Kansas City this Friday to present at TEDxKC on American democracy and how it "re-wrote my family story."

NPR's Ari Shapiro is making a trip to Kansas City for KCUR's RadioActive benefit gala on June 14. Ahead of his visit, he joined KCUR's Up To Date to discuss his numerous storytelling pursuits and what it is like to co-host a public radio show for a national audience.

Edith Chapin, National Public Radio's editor in chief, manages news coverage for one of the largest media organizations in the country. With the presidential election, the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, Chapin is gearing up for an extremely busy 2024.