Tina Fey Hosts NPR Special Program On Girls And Women (AUDIO)

Unlike her SNL counterparts, Tina Fey can now add NPR radio host to her résumé, for real.

Fey narrated two hour-long specials for NPR's The Hidden World of Girls, a program produced by Peabody Award winners, The Kitchen Sisters. The program is regularly aired on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

The series and two hour-long specials highlighted stories from women all around the world. According to the producers' website, The Hidden World of Girls aims to report "stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities—of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide." Producers opened phone lines and asked listeners from around the globe to call in and "help them in their quest" to find stories of the "extraordinary and everyday."

Fey's narrated specials grew out of these phone calls and is available online.

Featured stories include "the Tina Turner of Siberia who lives in one of the most remote, coldest and hottest places on earth" and a photographer who "got lost on a road in Louisiana one day and found herself at the gates of a prison, and over the years came to make thousands of haunting portraits of incarcerated men and women."

Listen to the two specials below, courtesy of PRX.org.

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[johnnygoodwud]

08:28 AM on 11/08/2011

neat lady, lucky husband.

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

07:19 AM on 11/08/2011

Stick to your day job. {{-_-}}

[Fortune27]

08:01 AM on 11/08/2011

What do you mean?

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

12:16 PM on 11/08/2011

30 Rock, of course. {{-_-}}

[Christopher Craddock]

05:16 AM on 11/08/2011

The Hidden World of Girls pt.1: The Mysterious Clitoris

[Maxedaddy]

02:07 AM on 11/08/2011

I know this is off the subject but here is a present to all you lovely ladies. To all my fellow steel magnolias who love a good laugh through tears, enjoy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/marriage-proposal-british-flashmob-train-proposal_n_1080569.html
And yes, i'm still a man. Deal with it!

[Fortune27]

07:26 AM on 11/08/2011

Charming, indeed and one of my favorite Bill Withers' songs. I am sure one of his songs is playing every second of every day somewhere on the planet. "Still Bill", a brilliant documentary on this ubiquitous talent , can be found on netflix.

[Maxedaddy]

11:54 AM on 11/08/2011

I went to see a showing of it at the Pasadena Public Radio studios about about a year ago. It was awesome. It chocked me up.

[bwither]

12:30 AM on 11/08/2011

I have such a nerd crush on Tina Fey it's ridiculous.

[fredpa]

06:30 AM on 11/08/2011

Funny. You perfectly expressed what I'm going through.

[snoopjohnny]

06:07 PM on 11/08/2011

You and about a gazillion other guys......

[jerryfromcalifornia]

12:03 AM on 11/08/2011

Tina Fey, one of the greatest talents today.

[ptrgamb]

11:44 PM on 11/07/2011

She is one thing America can be proud of

[abhorson]

02:09 AM on 11/08/2011

she's of Greek descent...

[ptrgamb]

06:33 AM on 11/08/2011

So they can be proud, too. There's enough pride to go around.

[pantherburns]

11:28 PM on 11/07/2011

Brainy, beautiful and a Democrat! The perfect trifecta!

[abhorson]

02:10 AM on 11/08/2011

Brainy, beautiful and Greek...

[jennysez]

10:05 AM on 11/08/2011

We get it, she's Greek. Quit spamming the comments with it.

[pantherburns]

12:33 PM on 11/08/2011

You mean she's broke?

[Botany5000]

11:19 PM on 11/07/2011

How cute of her.

[queman]

11:04 PM on 11/07/2011

Pennsylvania girl.

[abhorson]

02:09 AM on 11/08/2011

Greek girl

[queman]

09:39 PM on 11/08/2011

Half Greek... technically, legally American girl.

[Marvin Hadley Jr]

10:47 PM on 11/07/2011

I would like to see her debate Mitt Romney and Herman Cain, together, eh? She'd win on smarts, but they would be besides themselves, eh?

[Botany5000]

11:21 PM on 11/07/2011

She would be beside herself.

She is up there with George Cloney for smarts.

[Marvin Hadley Jr]

06:12 AM on 11/08/2011

I once new a man named Cloney. He remade himself over and over.

[americancolonyinhell]

09:05 AM on 11/08/2011

I didn't realize Clooney was so smart.

[parrotfish]

09:55 PM on 11/07/2011

She is hot!

[Blue123]

01:02 PM on 11/08/2011

Only if she set her head on fire.

[leorangerie]

09:28 PM on 11/07/2011

Tina's audio book is pretty great. Much better than print version. So I can see why this happening. A positive voice for girls...delivered with humor. That's a winning combo.

[kahalaman]

11:05 PM on 11/07/2011

I was a big fan of Tna Fey before I bought her audio book, and was still blown away on how smart and funny the book was. Looking forward to her next film project.

[leorangerie]

11:16 PM on 11/07/2011

Wasn't it great? I was truly impressed.

[Cloball]

11:37 PM on 11/07/2011

hmmmm. I liked her book, but wasn't laughing out loud as much as I expected to. Maybe I'll try the audio, if I take a road trip. Colbert's audio book was really good.

[Grousefeather]

08:52 PM on 11/07/2011

I didn't realise her face is so symmetrical.

[Blue123]

11:05 AM on 11/08/2011

It's because she faintly favors a real beauty queen, Sara Palen?

[Freedom Rush]

08:50 PM on 11/07/2011

i hope they podcast it. i can't wait! :-)