On today’s show, Scott Raab talks about the challenges of dealing with security at the new World Trade Center. Grammy Award-winning banjo player Béla Fleck plays music from his new album, “The Impostor,” live in our studio. Marisha Pessl talks about Night Film. And we’ll find out about symmetry and the physicist Emmy Noether, whose work in symmetries has been called as important as Einstein’s theory on the speed of light.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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Debate Day; Catsimatidis; CBS-TWC Dispute; Online CrimeOur final round of mayoral candidate interviews leading up to the primary begins with Gristedes Foods CEO John Catsimatidis, who will take your calls about his campaign to become the ...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.
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Opposition in Syria Claim Chemical Attacks Killed Hundreds | Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis Worsens | Shooting Victim Speaks Out on Stop-And-Frisk
Opposition in Syria Claim Chemical Attacks Killed Hundreds | Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis Worsens | NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Legacy | Diagnosing the Annual Medical Checkup | Are Bob Filner's Days in Office as San Diego Mayor Numbered? | After VRA Ruling, Florida Looks to Make Sweeping Changes Without Oversight ...
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PMLive: NYC Mayoral Debate
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WNYC's Brian Lehrer joins the panel for a lively debate among the Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City.
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Freakonomics Radio: Spite HappensThis episode of Freakonomics Radio explores our surprising propensity for spite.Go to program: Freakonomics Radio: Spite Happens
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10:00 PMSoundcheck: Guitar Special: Kalamazoo Gals, Richard Thompson Plays 'Electric'
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Guitar Special: Kalamazoo Gals, Richard Thompson Plays ‘Electric’
Soundcheck is revisiting some of our favorite segments from the past year. Today, we're presenting a "Guitar Special," featuring a Rosie the Riveter guitar mystery and an iconic folk guitar master still going strong.
In this episode: John Thomas shares the story of unsung heroines, as detailed in ...
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#3336: Poetry Set to Music, I
From the classical art songs of Schumann and Schubert that used as their text words by great poets of the day to brand-new Appalachian blues music just recorded by Martha Redbone set to works of William Blake, this New Sounds program explores poetry in song. Sample from Redbone’s new album, “The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake” and its hollered melodies, lullabies, and folky mountain takes on the Romantic 18th century English poetry.
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