Congress, Politics, Books
and American History

  

 

 

 

C-SPAN Radio offers commercial-free public affairs programming 24 hours a day. You'll hear live coverage from Washington of important congressional hearings, key speeches from national leaders, along with archival recordings of presidential tapes, military memoirs & judicial proceedings from contemporary times and before the advent of television.

Washington Journal 7 - 10am ET Live call-in program featuring elected officials, adminstration officials and journalists and policy analysts as guests.

Phone numbers:
      202 737-0001 Democrats
      202 737-0002 Republicans
      202 628-0184 Independents

Washington Today 5 - 7 pm ET
(re-airs 9 - 11pm ET)
Catch up on the stories of the day in Washington, DC. Hear portions of key events and interviews with journalists who provide background and perspective. And listen to Washington Today as a C‑SPAN Podcast. Visit our Podcasts page and also find other C‑SPAN podcasts. Programs posted after 6pm ET, Monday - Thursday.

Sunday Public Affairs Programs reair beginning at 12pm ET of programs from NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN and CBS.  

• Supreme Court Oral Arguments:
  C-SPAN Radio takes a look back at 10 modern cases that set important precedents in the U.S. legal system.
• LBJ White House Tapes:
  A collection of President Lyndon Johnson's White House phone conversations.
• Nixon White House Phone Calls:
  Secretly recorded phone conversations from the Oval Office and other locations from 1971-1973.
• American Political Archive:
  Interesting, notable, and often unique audio from the National Archives, presidential libraries, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress and other sources.