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Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends Helm by Sarah Hall.

Listen to Jenn Delperdang as she recommends Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times by Tracy K Smith.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser.

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup enthralls fans across the globe, Listen To This examines those bits of classical and Boradway music that have been adopted as anthems and chants by the fans in the bleachers. Between matches enjoy some Verdi, Elgar, Puccini, Rodgers and Hammerstein and more@

Listen to Billie Voss as she recommends Buckeye by Patrick Ryan.

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot.

Sumptuous music for the month of June, from composers linked by a secret theme. Enjoy terrific work from Barber, Smyth, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Copland, and Higdon on Listen To This.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.

Ammad Omar oversees coverage of the western United States for NPR and serves as the editorial lead at NPR West in Culver City, California.

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.