All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

[1] All Things Considered and Morning Edition were the highest rated public radio programs in the United States in 2002 and 2005.

[2][3] The show combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features, and its segments vary in length and style.

[4] ATC is co-hosted by rotating cast of regular anchors; current hosts include Ari Shapiro, Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly,[5] and Juana Summers.

[7] NPR chose to place its inaugural daily newscast at the afternoon commute timeslot instead of the morning because many of its affiliates at that time did not sign on for the day until mid-morning or afterward.

[citation needed] Weekend All Things Considered (WATC) is a one-hour version of the show that premiered in 1974[9] and is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m.

ATC was excluded from the NPR deal with Sirius Satellite Radio so as not to compete with local stations airing the show.

[4] On March 23, 2020, ATC launched The National Conversation, a live call-in show addressing listener questions about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

National podcast episodes are supplemented in select areas by additional local reporting and analysis from journalists at various NPR member stations, such as Dallas-based KERA.

Certain types of personal interest stories are almost always covered within this limit; those relating to hard news or entertainment tend to last the standard three-and-a-half to four minutes.

The program begins with the familiar Don Voegeli theme song[17] under a one-minute billboard of the stories to be covered during the hour.

Stations receive a preliminary rundown before each broadcast (usually a few minutes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern) denoting the timing and placement of stories so they can schedule local content as appropriate.

In 2017, the first broadcast episode (from 1971) of All Things Considered was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.

[19] ABC NewsRadio in Australia broadcasts a continuous hour of selected segments from each day's program between 12:00 and 13:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time Monday to Friday.