[ejfox]

I scrolled through this whole thread looking for a mention of Swell who have been my go-to app for this purpose for the past couple of months (feels like it's been forever though, can't imagine life without it).

I pretty much get NPR hourly news updates, Fresh Air, interspersed with episodes of Marc Maron's WTF and some random stuff like A16Z and stuff from the BBC. It's pretty much ideal.

I love NPR, and before Swell would just have the local station on all day, but I find that NPR doesn't make enough content to fill up a whole day of straight listening (at least not enough content that I like) - I wonder if the NPR One app would automatically find shows from their archive that I might be interested in to fill the time.

I'd be curious if other users of Swell will be switching to this app, or if they, like me, see it as a slightly different and improved model to tie together content from a variety of different sources.

[covati]

well, now that swell is shutting down it might make sense. But I'll miss the variety that I get from swell :(

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/apple-to-buy-swell-for-30-m...

[pbreit]

Another option: http://anten.na

[jim-greer]

I listened for about 20 minutes at lunch, and they did play a story from the archives...