UC Berkely economist Enrico Moretti looks at how America’s labor market is being transformed. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a tea set made by the famous Staffordshire pottery firm. David Weber, founder and president of the New York City Food Truck Association, and food truck owners Deborah Smith and Jim Drew talk about the growing industry.
Neil MacGregor uses five objects to highlight the shifts in the balance of economic, political and imperial power in the C19th - and the enormous consequences across the rest of the world.
Read more about the Early Victorian Tea Set.
UC Berkely economist Enrico Moretti looks at how America’s labor market is being transformed. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a tea set made by the famous Staffordshire pottery firm. David Weber, founder and president of the New York City Food Truck Association, and food truck owners Deborah Smith and Jim Drew talk about the growing industry.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Henry Crumpton talks about leading the CIA's global covert operations against terrorists. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about the iconic Japanese print “Under the Wave off Kanagawa.” And Matt Taibbi talks about JP Morgan Chase's trading loss for this week’s Backstory segment.
Neil MacGregor uses five objects to highlight the shifts in the balance of economic, political and imperial power in the C19th - and the enormous consequences across the rest of the world.
Read more about the Hokusai's 'The Great Wave.'
Henry Crumpton talks about leading the CIA's global covert operations against terrorists. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about the iconic Japanese print “Under the Wave off Kanagawa.” And Matt Taibbi talks about JP Morgan Chase's trading loss for this week’s Backstory segment.
The 78 Project is on a mission to record today’s musicians with yesterday’s technology - a 1930s PRESTO direct-to-disc recorder. We'll hear about the project and give it a go, as the project records our musical guest, Justin Townes Earle, live on the air.
A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.
A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
The 78 Project is on a mission to record today’s musicians with yesterday’s technology - a 1930s PRESTO direct-to-disc recorder. We'll hear about the project and give it a go, as the project records our musical guest, Justin Townes Earle, live on the air.
The thumb piano, which in Zimbabwe, is called “mbira,” in Uganda, “kalimba,” in the Congo, “likembe,” – is an instrument made of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. We’ll have an hour of music involving the thumb piano for this New Sounds program, from a gentle song by Arthur Russell, interpreted by Jens Lekman to the Kronos Quartet, to the psychedelic electronic music in the Congotronics series of records.
