-- NPR has over 17 million listeners who tune in to more than 550 member stations throughout the country. Award-winning programs include All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Car Talk, and Piano Jazz.-- This best of format collects the highlights of NPR's extensive library of recordings.-- Some of the interviews and programs included in this collection feature such notables as Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), Mary Karr (The Liar's Club), Wynton Marsalis, Mandy Patinkin, and Rosemary Clooney.-- Proceeds from the sale of these tapes support NPR programming.NPR, founded in 1971 with the mandate to produce and distribute news, cultural, and informational programming for radio in a non-commercial format, educates and delights millions of listeners throughout the country. Now, in this new series of thematically organized tapes, NPR presents some of its best interviews and other recorded material over the last 25 years.