About PRI

At Public Radio International, we invite listeners to hear a different voice with content that provides unique perspectives on our interdependent world.

Partnering with public media's most talented producers and hosts, we offer distinctly global voices on PRI's "The World" and BBC World Service. We offer singular, diverse voices on "The Tavis Smiley Show." We present voices of culture, contemporary American life and artistry on "This American Life," PRI's "Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen" and "Sounds Eclectic." And we present decidedly fresh takes on "Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie" "WireTap" and "The Sound of Young America."

Mission

Public Radio International's mission is to serve audiences with distinctive programming that provides information, insights and cultural experiences essential to understanding a diverse, interdependent world.

Core principles

Public Radio International recognizes as core principles:

• the central role played by diversity in our nation's past and its importance to our future
• the urgent need to understand connections between American life and cultures around the globe
• the responsibility of public media to encourage the exchange of ideas and search for common principles fundamental to a civil society and
• the power of sound and of the spoken word to engage the mind and nurture the human spirit.

PRI productions

Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie
The Takeaway
PRI's Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner
PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRI's The World

Distributed programs (sampler)

BBC World Service
Bob Edwards Weekend
Capitol News Connection with PRI
Living on Earth
Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Sounds Eclectic
The Sound of Young America
The Tavis Smiley Show
This American Life
To the Best of Our Knowledge
To the Point