1. A computer-implemented method for providing a personalized audio program, comprising: receiving, from a user device, user input indicating topics of interest; classifying the topics of interest as one of a news topic, a sports topic, or an entertainment topic; associating at least one of the news topic with news programs, the sports topic with sports programs, or the entertainment topic with entertainment programs; selecting first audio content that relates to at least one of the news topic, the sports topic, or the entertainment topic associated with the news programs, the sports programs, or the entertainment programs; selecting second audio content that relates to at least one of the news topic, the sports topic, or the entertainment topic associated with the news programs, the sports programs, or the entertainment programs; receiving, from the user device, user input indicating at least one rating indicative of an interest level of a user of at least one of the news topic, the sports topic, or the entertainment topic; computing a first value indicative of a first level of interest in the first audio content based at least in part on a first correlation between the first audio content and the news topic, the sports topic, or the entertainment topic; computing a second value indicative of a second level of interest in the second audio content based at least in part on a second correlation between the second audio content and the news topic, the sports topic, or the entertainment topic; determining a listening sequence for playing the first audio content and the second audio content, the listening sequence for playing the first audio content first based on the first value of the first level of interest in the first audio content being greater than the second value of the second level of interest in the second audio content; generating, according to the listening sequence, metadata identifying the first audio content as instructions for sequencing the first audio content first and the second audio content second in the personalized audio program; and streaming, according to the metadata, the personalized audio program to a handheld device.