Madison, an NPR listener?

NPR listeners are bland, white, Midwestern, and very, very old--more likely to watch birds than to man barricades.

Polling, he says, shows that just over half of NPR listeners hold only a high school diploma and almost a third have college degrees.

While the cliché of the typical NPR listener tends to the tweedy, claret-sipping type, some did find the latest extension a bit odd.

A devoted NPR listener, Ms. McQuiston knew the network had been soliciting old tapes and records for a series called "Lost and Found Sound."

The soundtrack was voted by NPR listeners as the 14th best of the year in a listener poll for 2008.

Blender magazine rated it the second-best recording/album of 2008, and NPR listeners rated it the 16th best album of the year.

Since early in his career, Mr. Sedaris's readings have been well attended by NPR listeners curious to see the face behind the nasal voice.

NPR listeners voted The Crane Wife their favorite album of 2006, as announced on the December 5 episode of All Songs Considered.

NPR listeners, as the influential audience researcher David Giovannoni has shown, tend to be highly educated, socially conscious and discussion-oriented.