NPR does for the most part strike me as boring and anonymous. It's a very pale shadow of the UK's BBC Radio 4 or Australia's RN (its nominal equivalents).

Fair point on This American Life though.

To be fair, most of the NPR content is somewhat US specific. I have no idea what the Australian equivalent might be, but I do know the BBC is not a match (eg NPR gets basically no money from the US government except in being a nonprofit).