Auma Obama talks about her life in Africa and Europe, and about connecting with her brother, Barack Obama. Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a Shi'a religious parade standard from Iran. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman looks at ways to end our economic slump.
Neil MacGregor charts the relationships between faiths across the globe around 400 years ago, looking at objects from India and Central America, Europe and Indonesia.
Read more about the Shi'a Religious Parade Standard.
Auma Obama talks about her life in Africa and Europe, and about connecting with her brother, Barack Obama. Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a Shi'a religious parade standard from Iran. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman looks at ways to end our economic slump.
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NPR reporter David Folkenflik talks about yesterday’s report from British legislators that called Rupert Murdoch “unfit” to lead News Corp. Plus: journalist Steve Coll discusses the relationship between ExxonMobil and American power; a report finds inequities in the city’s school system; former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on his life in the news; and the economics of soccer.
On today’s show: Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor turned broadcaster on his new talk show on Current TV. Then, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anna Quindlen on her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a look at a miniature of a Mughal prince. Also, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, filmmaker Martin Bell, discuss their unique take on high school Proms around the country. Plus the Gurus of How-To, Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, take your calls on home repair.
Neil MacGregor charts the relationships between faiths across the globe around 400 years ago, looking at objects from India and Central America, Europe and Indonesia.
Read more about the Miniature of a Mughal Prince.
On today’s show: Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor turned broadcaster on his new talk show on Current TV. Then, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anna Quindlen on her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a look at a miniature of a Mughal prince. Also, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, filmmaker Martin Bell, discuss their unique take on high school Proms around the country. Plus the Gurus of How-To, Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, take your calls on home repair.
In the early 80s audiences at hardcore punk shows began pushing, shoving, and slamming into each other…in the friendliest of ways, of course. Today, our dance craze series heads into the mosh pit for a look at slam dancing. Plus, bassist Mike Watt of the punk band Minutemen joins us with a photo memoir. And, we get a preview of the new "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" music festival. Guests include guitarist Bryce Dessner, of The National.
Fresh Air is one of the most popular programs on public radio, breaking the "talk show" mold, and Gross is known for her fearless and insightful interviews with prominent figures in American arts, politics, and popular culture.
Reporters scour the globe for the most direct and compelling information, from the spread of AIDS in India to the inexplicable fluctuations of the Brazilian economy.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
Reporters scour the globe for the most direct and compelling information, from the spread of AIDS in India to the inexplicable fluctuations of the Brazilian economy.
On Point is a hybrid of a talk program and a news-magazine covering each day's important news developments and conducting conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from all around the world.
Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world.
In the early 80s audiences at hardcore punk shows began pushing, shoving, and slamming into each other…in the friendliest of ways, of course. Today, our dance craze series heads into the mosh pit for a look at slam dancing. Plus, bassist Mike Watt of the punk band Minutemen joins us with a photo memoir. And, we get a preview of the new "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" music festival. Guests include guitarist Bryce Dessner, of The National.
For this New Sounds program, sample a globetrotting set of acoustic music with guitar as the starting point. There’s music by Stephane Wrembel, who visits everything from blues to flamenco to rock on his record “Origins.” Listen next to South African guitarist Derek Gripper, who has also studied and mastered the kora, the instrument of the Malian griot.