The Leonard Lopate Show, hosted by Leonard Lopate for over three decades, featured conversations that New Yorkers turned to each afternoon for insight into a wide variety of topics; including heavy-hitting writers, actors, ex-presidents, political figures, economists, scientists, comedians, dancers, chefs, historians, filmmakers and do-it-yourself experts. Tune into Midday on WNYC, our new program, from 12-2pm every weekday, right here.
Daily Schedule
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12:00 AM
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02:00 AM
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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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06:00 AMSpecials
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Innovation Hub: Celebrating American Innovation
On this episode of Innovation Hub, celebrate Independence Day by taking a look at great American innovations and how the American dream has changed over time.
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07:00 AM
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WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.
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- Brooke Gladstone
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08:00 AM
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NPR’s Scott Simon reports on the world’s top news, features and entertainment to your Saturday morning.
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- Scott Simon
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10:00 AM
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For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.
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11:00 AM
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The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.
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12:00 PM
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01:00 PM
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ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio.
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02:00 PM
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Humorous, heartbreaking and true stories told live on stage. No script. No props. Just a microphone, a spotlight and room full of strangers.
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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Flying Cars and Tricorders: How Sci-Fi Invented the Present
From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to George Orwell’s 1984 to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-winning Her, artists have imagined what the future will look like. In this week’s episode, Kurt Andersen explores how science fiction has shaped the world we’re living in right now. The inventor of the cell phone gives credit to ...
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05:00 PM
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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.
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06:00 PM
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The iconic radio show heads back to Minnesota for three days of festivitiesIf you showed up on July 6, 1974 at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul to attend the first broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion," you were in select co...Go to program: A Prairie Home Companion Celebrates 40 Years
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09:00 PMSpecial Programming
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11:00 PM
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#3311: Children of the Otter
For this New Sounds, hear some music that has not yet been released on CD by the Russian composer Vladimir Martynov - an epic project called “Children of the Otter.” The work blends the ancient Tuvan sounds of the throat-singing ensemble Huun Huur Tu with a contemporary chamber orchestra and a choir singing poetry of the Russian avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922.)
Go to program: New Sounds