It is going to be a fun few months for National Public Radio fans.

Over the next few months in the Treasure Valley, NPR buffs will get the chance to meet some of their favorite radio personalities, participate in a national show broadcast from Boise and record their own stories for local and national audiences.

A slate of NPR fixtures are on the way:

The comedy and quiz show "Whad'YaKnow?" will tape at the Morrison Center May 23.

The oral history-oriented "StoryCorps" will collect local tales from May 15 to June 7.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of the foodie show "The Splendid Table," will appear in Boise in June.

And NPR correspondent Don Gonyea will talk about covering Obamamania in July.

Boise State Radio has been working hard to woo popular shows and radio personalities to the Valley.

"We want to give people who listen to NPR and Boise State Radio a chance to see the shows and features they hear every day. We want to see them live in the city," said Hy Kloc, associate general manager and director of development and marketing for Boise State Radio.

LOOKING FOR STORIES

As part of the 10-year national StoryCorps project, Idahoans soon will be invited to record their own stories in a mobile studio that will be parked in the plaza in front of Boise City Hall from May 15 to June 7.

Stay tuned for information on how to sign up for one of the 185 recording times.

"There's this incredible tapestry of personal history that would be lost, if not for this project," Kloc said. "It's their own story, in their own words."

The StoryCorps mobile recording booth - inside an Airstream trailer - came to Idaho for the first time in 2005; it was parked in Moscow.

Boise State Radio is partnering with NPR and the Library Congress on the project. Many of the 185 stories recorded locally will air on KBSX 91.5 FM; some will also air nationally, as well.

More than 30,000 stories have been recorded nationwide since 2003. They will be preserved for posterity at the Library of Congress.

WHAT, EXACTLY, DO YOU KNOW?

A two-hour comedy and quiz show that airs on 285 public radio stations nationwide will broadcast from the Morrison Center in Boise in May - the first time the 23-year-old Wisconsin-based show "Whad'YaKnow?" has come to the City of Trees.

The weekend show goes on the road eight times a year to provide listeners with a more potent dose of regional Americana. Those shows feature interviews with regional historians, authors, celebrities and local yokels in the audience.

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is a fan of "Whad'YaKnow?," which is hosted by the wry, quick-witted Michael Feldman.

"Having the show come to the Morrison Center gives us another great opportunity to show off our city to a national audience," Bieter said. "And I predict that Boiseans' superior knowledge of current events will prove that, for us, the proper response to the question 'Whad'ya Know?' is: 'A whole lot.' "

"Whad'YaKnow?" airs locally from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays.

Darin Eisenbarth, president of Zamzows, plans see the show at the Morrison Center in May.

"The thing I love the most about the show is how they give you the back story of the city they're at. They give you interesting facts and bring on some real characters," Eisenbarth said. "They may be in a place you've never thought of visiting - they're in Duluth, or someplace, and you don't think of going to Duluth - but after the show it sounds really interesting."

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