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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Radio Ambulante's Daniel Alarcón, whose new app helps listeners learn Spanish as they listen to the Spanish-language podcast.

Most of America listens to the same Christmas songs on the radio. But some local programmers seem to have a "real shine" for lesser-known holiday tunes. Walt Hickey of FiveThirtyEight explains.

Radio Islam, the nation's first daily English-language Muslim radio program produced in the United States, began airing this month in Chicago. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

NPR's Alex Chadwick gives a year-end update on the NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions stories of 2001.

Hidden in the dense forest of central Africa lies a clearing where each day and night, dozens of elephants gather. African forest elephants are elusive, and such a clearing is rare. NPR's Alex Chadwick takes you there on the latest Radio Expedition, for Morning Edition.

NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the National Geographic-NPR Radio Expedition about the Tortugas Ecological Reserve near the Florida Keys. Chadwick talks with the scientists studying coral reef life in the underwater wilderness area, and tries not to get seasick.

Hidden in the dense forest of central Africa lies a clearing where each day and night, dozens of elephants gather. African forest elephants are elusive, and such a clearing is rare. NPR's Alex Chadwick takes you there on the latest Radio Expedition, for Morning Edition.

A new liberal radio network is scheduled to take to the airwaves Wednesday, March 31. Headlined by comedian Al Franken's new show "The O'Franken Factor," the Air America network aspires to offer an alternative to conservative talkers like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. Hear NPR's Robert Smith.

Youth Radio commentator Nishat Kurwa visits her family's ancestral home in India's Gujarat State to attend her cousin's wedding. It's an arranged marriage, an idea that had long made American-born Kurwa uncomfortable. But the rich wedding festivities and conversations with her cousin about the benefits of arranged marriage have made her more open to the idea.

Brooklyn's TV on the Radio has always been a forward-thinking rock band. Its new album, Dear Science, is its funkiest, but in a typically complicated way. Sick of living with pessimism, the band has brightened its tunes and beats.