Shows
WNYC Daily Schedule
All Things Considered
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.
America Abroad
Serious radio for the intellectually curious, America Abroad explores today's critical issues with balance and depth. America Abroad is the only public radio program that devotes an hour to a single issue-providing historical context and international perspective.
America's Town Meeting of the Air
The concerns of post-war Americans delivered to twelve world capitals.
American Music Festival
Scintillating performances from music icons.
American RadioWorks
American Radioworks® is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. ARW is based at St. Paul, Minnesota, with staff journalists in Washington D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, and Duluth, Minnesota.
Around New York
Coverage of everything NYC, from antiques shows to summer reading lists.
Ask Me Another
Ask Me Another is a rambunctious hour that blends brainteasers and local pub trivia night with comedy and music. Host Ophira Eisenberg invites in-studio guests and listeners alike to stretch their noggins, tickle their funny bones, and enjoy witty banter and guitar riffs from house musician Jonathan Coulton.
BBC - The Changing World
The Changing World is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American Radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.
BBC - The Strand
The Strand gives listeners a truly global guide to the world of arts, culture and entertainment.
BBC World Service
BBC World Service provides international news, analysis and information.
Beyond Victory
Post-war leaders rally Americans to sustaining peace and prosperity.
Books and Authors Luncheon
The voices of some of the greatest thinkers and characters of our nation.
The Brian Lehrer Show
It's your neighborhood, your city, your country, your world, and now your website. Brian Lehrer delves into the issues and links them to real life.
Bullseye
Bullseye is a public radio show about what's good in popular culture. With a keen editorial eye, Bullseye sifts the wheat from the chaff, and brings you hot culture picks, in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary creative people and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye is equal parts funny and fascinating. Whether you're already plugged in to the culture map, or looking for a signpost, Bullseye will keep you on target.
Burn: An Energy Journal
It is the fundamental issue of our time: Energy; where we get it; how we use it; what happens then. It powers our homes and our economy; it creates troubled alliances and disturbing divisions; it empowers and impoverishes; it enables almost all that we do and now threatens all that we have become.
The Business
The Business is public radio's show about the business of show business. This entertaining half-hour about the people who make entertainment is hosted by Kim Masters, who most recently covered the business for National Public Radio.
Campus Press Conference
This is not your run-of-the-mill 'student conference.'
Capitol Connection
Keep abreast of political developments and gain insight into how New York State politicians think when you listen in as political scientist Dr. Alan Chartock converses with people in positions of power!
Car Talk
America's funniest auto mechanics, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, amuse you with their shameless wit, amaze you with their encyclopedic knowledge of all things automotive, and perplex you with their puzzlers, all the while playing a few Car Tunes.
Chatter from America
Chatter from America is a weekly podcast featuring three worldly Brits making their way in the land of the free. The show is an irreverent, witty and insightful look back at this week’s big stories in America and promises only very occasionally to mention cricket.
Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons
Dramatizations meant to sway public opinion in favor of 'displaced pilgrims.'
City Close Up
Seymour N. Siegel interviews New York City officials about municipal issues.
Comic Parade
Prominent funnymen read newspaper comic strips to the children of New York City.
The Conversation
In New York, any stranger can instantly become an acquaintance, or a new friend, when you start a conversation about the issues that matter to you. The Conversation connects you with the people around you, for a lively, freewheeling, discussion about topics and ideas that matter to New Yorkers.
Cooper Union Forum
An ongoing series of lectures at Cooper Union cooperatively broadcast on WNYC.
Danny Stiles' Music Museum
We continue the legacy of Danny Stiles every Saturday night with archive broadcasts of his WNYC shows. Hear the sounds of big band music as the "Vicar of Vintage" sets your radio aglow with songs, remembrances, and the spin only he can provide.
Democracies Will Win
"Bringing New Yorkers expert information on many phases of our all-out victory effort."
The Diane Rehm Show
For more than 25 years, The Diane Rehm Show has offered listeners thoughtful and lively conversations on an array of topics with many of the most distinguished people of our times.
Digesting Politics Podcast
WNYC's top political reporters dish on politics.
Dish
A special series about food and life in New York City. Visit a different restaurant each week, for cuisine and casual conversation.
Elmer Davis: Progress Of War
World War II era 'weekly war review' delivered by the Office of War Information.
Evening Music
From the annals of classical history to the progressive contemporary scene, Evening Music serves up a global perspective, including live interviews and award-winning festival programming.
Evenings at The Thalia Book Club
WNYC, in association with Symphony Space, presents "Evenings at The Thalia Book Club," a series of conversations and readings with world-renowned authors that were staged and presented during the inaugural season of Symphony Space's Thalia Book Club.
Fishko Files
Stories of art, culture, music and media as told by WNYC’s resident cultural observer, Sara Fishko.
Folksong Festival
The show remains one of the few programs devoted to the traditional and contemporary folksong. Over the years, Folksong Festival has survived battles with mayors and blacklists.
Freakonomics Radio
Just like the books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, Freakonomics Radio will explore “the hidden side of everything.” It will tell you things you always thought you knew but didn’t, and things you never thought you wanted to know, but do.
Freedom's Ladder
Explanations of the City's evolving civil rights issues in a dynamic format.
Fresh Air
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.
From The Archives
For more than 88 years, WNYC has been a witness to the news, politics and cultural events of New York City. We've combed our archives to bring you some of the most notable highlights from our rich broadcast heritage.
Credit: NYC Municipal Archives
Gabfest Radio
Gabfest Radio brings you a weekly hour of smart, counterintuitive, and funny commentary about politics and culture. The program combines Slate.com’s two most popular podcasts, the Political Gabfest and the Culture Gabfest, into a fast-paced show that dissects the week’s most important events from the presidential campaign and the worlds of art and entertainment. The result is something more like a chat with friends over drinks than a talk show.
The Golden Door
Stories of "the making of New Americans of all races and creeds."
Hadassah Speaks
Serial drama produced by Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America.
Headlines in Chemistry
Science news for every man and woman in New York!
Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices from NPR® is a weekly series of The Best of Public Radio.
Here's The Thing
Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener unique entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people such as comedian Chris Rock, political strategist Ed Rollins and Oscar winner Michael Douglas. Here's The Thing: Listen to what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host. Subscribe now and get new interviews every two weeks.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects uses the British Museum’s collection to tell an epic history of humanity spanning over two million years. This 100-part series is narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, and was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Intelligence Squared US
IQ2US is the program for listeners who crave a clear view of the big questions that divide Americans. Every episode brings together world thinkers, policy-makers, and journalists, in 2 on 2 debates, to argue the pros and cons of issues like health care, foreign policy, clean energy, and the war. Then listeners weigh in. Expect ear-catching, provocative radio that enlightens, entertains, and informs.
International Interview
A progressive, yet evenhanded, presentation of international perspectives on politics and culture.
The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series
An award-winning documentary series by Sara Fishko and WNYC, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University. The Programs draw on the thousands of hours of tape recorded by photographer W. Eugene Smith in his Manhattan Loft in the 50s and 60s, as well as interviews with musicians and other participants in the jazz loft scene. Companion book: The Jazz Loft Project, by Sam Stephenson.
Joe Frank
A long time favorite with public radio audiences, Joe Frank's programs are sometimes dark, sometimes absurdist, sometimes solo recitations, sometimes ensemble pieces performed and/or improvised by actors, sometimes voices of real people heard in real situations, whether man-in-the-street interviews or phone conversations with lovers or strangers.
Jonathan Schwartz
An eclectic mix of American Popular Standards, classical, rock and roll, jazz and "good talk" with host Jonathan Schwartz.
Keep 'em Rolling
Office of Emergency Management-sponsored variety show to boost patriotism during the war.
Kings County
What’s in Kings County? The next band to put on your iPod. The next app to put on your iPhone. A visit to Kings County will take you to the hottest young comics and offer a first listen of emerging musicians, along with audio gags waiting to go viral and a look into the current golden age of DIY city living. Artisanal mayonnaise? Mayors of the block? Pet pigs? Yeah, we’ve got that, too.
Latino USA
Weekly roundups of news and public affairs, features on cultural and musical trends, and compelling personal portraits present a unique weekly perspective on U.S. Latinos.
Le Show
A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer.
Left, Right, and Center
Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Host Leonard Lopate lets you in on the best conversations with writers, actors, ex-presidents, dancers, scientists, comedians, historians, grammarians, curators, filmmakers, and do-it-yourself experts.
Letters from Home and Abroad
Scripted interview program to explain post-war issues.
Life and Works
A radio presentation of great works of literature.
The Lively Arts
Gilbert Seldes discusses big-thinking issues in art from his characteristically populist perspective.
Maincurrents
Panel show with experts discussing major social issues of the day.
Marketplace
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
Marketplace Money
Host Tess Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet.
Mayor's Conference
Features Mayor Robert Wagner answering questions from the NYC press.
Miscellaneous
Programs ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s covering a variety of cultural and political topics.
Money Talking
WNYC’s Money Talking brings you conversations about the most important business and economic stories of the week, going beyond the headlines and the jargon. Context, conversation and insight. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
Morning Edition
Morning Edition is your perfect morning companion: gentle, but straightforward, explaining the vagaries of international diplomacy, reporting weather and even recommending the best film in town.
The Moth Radio Hour
The Moth Radio Hour features true stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props or accompaniment. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. Each hour mixes humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant tales that captivate, surprise, and delight with their honesty, bravery, and humor.
New Sounds
New Sounds provides a place for your left and right brain to unwind at the end of day.
New Tech City
From high speed trading to e-books in the classroom, New York City is an emerging capital for the development and use of new technologies. WNYC’s New Tech City explains what’s coming next and how New Yorkers are changing the ways everyone lives and works. Innovation, entrepreneurship, and what’s got us staring at our phones all the time: that’s New Tech City. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
New York Queen of Commerce
The Department of Commerce makes economic history FUN!
News
Historic news reports aired over WNYC 1939-1969.
The News Quiz USA
The BBC hit topical comedy show from the UK, ‘The News Quiz’, is coming Stateside.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is Public Radio International's weekly radio features magazine. Produced by WNYC, The Next Big Thing may actually resemble a city or town near you: listeners find it a fascinating place to visit, full of little-known street corners, compelling stories, lively music, and original comedy.
The No Show
The No Show is a showcase for the idiosyncratic views and humor of Steve Post, a world-class curmudgeon whose irreverence and iconoclasm have entertained audiences and appalled radio station managers for four decades. (Give or take.)
Now Hear This
Host-creator John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants incorporates interviews, performance and features into a highly personal hour long survey of the popular music scene.
On Being
On Being, hosted by journalist and theologian Krista Tippett is a regular series of programs produced and distributed by American Public Media. Being will not always have "religion" itself as a subject, but it will grapple with common and larger themes of American life—asking how perspectives of faith might offer illumination.
On Point
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.
On The Media
On the Media explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens that we literally see the world and the world sees us.
Our Stake in the War
Interviews with "distinguished Americans" produced in cooperation with CUNY in 1942.
Overseas Press Club
Speeches and question-answer sessions that provide an international perspective on news.
The PBS NewsHour
The PBS NewsHour continues to provide in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews, discussions and documentary reports.
Pals of the P.A.L.
Variety show with a special focus on youth, performed by members of the Police Athletic League.
Plan For Survival
Not for pre-bedtime listening: discussions of the impossibility of preparing for nuclear winter.
Police Safety Program
A children's musical variety show for those youngsters who need constant police supervision.
Pop & Politics with Farai Chideya
Pop & Politics with Farai Chideya is a three-part series about the 2010 midterm elections, looking beyond the horserace to get to the real issues, fears, and beliefs that motivate voters. Chideya looks at hot-button issues such as race, immigration and economics. She presses politicians in battleground states for answers and turns to real people, on their turf, to ask if they think America is headed in the right direction.
A Prairie Home Companion
From the American heartland to the vast urban centers, humorist, writer, and hard-core Minnesotan Garrison Keillor offers an old-time variety show as homespun as it is savvy.
The Promised Land
There are visionaries among us — men and women with innovative ideas about changing lives and transforming communities. You may find them in the far-flung corners of the world or right down the street. With The Promised Land, a new series from Launch Minneapolis, host Majora Carter seeks out these extraordinary yet everyday people and reveals their dreams and struggles — what inspires and challenges their work and their lives. From neighborhoods in east Belfast grappling with a polluted river to kids interviewing for Green Jobs Corps in East Oakland, The Promised Land promises a steady stream of powerful radio.
Psychoanalysis and Everyday Living
Academic lectures on the family, based on the work of Dr. Karen Horney.
Q with Jian Ghomeshi
Q is an energetic daily arts, culture and entertainment magazine that takes you on a smart and surprising ride, interviewing personalities and tackling the cultural issues that matter. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, with his trademark wit and spontaneity, Q covers pop culture and high arts alike with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends.
Queens College Forum
A series in celebration of Queens College and public discourse.
Radio Rookies
Radio Rookies is a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.
Radiolab
Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
Reader's Almanac
From the Writing Center at NYU, this radio series is dedicated to "good reading."
RelationShow
RelationShow tackles the wild, wonderful landscape of modern relationships with surprising, hard-won, and often funny insights gleaned from today’s most provocative thinkers.
Report on Civil Defense
Updates on disaster preparedness, from public welfare to firefighting to water safety.
Rockwell Matters
In this series of free-form radio blogs for WNYC, critic John Rockwell examines cultural topics and events in the news.
The Role of Science in War
News for "when science plays such a large part in supplying our war needs."
Schaefer FM
December is John Schaefer Month. All month long, we're celebrating John's 30 years at the station with a special music stream culled from 30 years of his shows and live events.
Science Friday
Science Friday is a weekly science talk show from NPR, broadcast Fridays at 3PM on 93.9 FM. Each week, Science Friday's host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, looks at science topics that are in the news brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science -- to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading contemporary and classic short fiction-the most distinguished works of the early masters such as Chekhov, Maupassant, Malamud and dozens of others.
Guest hosted by some of your favorite actors and writers including John Lithgow, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris and others.
Shifting Gears
The global economic crisis and the U.S.-based credit collapse have pushed a challenged U.S. auto industry into uncertain territory. With approximately one in ten American jobs touched by the auto industry, how are communities feeling the affect of this transition?
Over two, one-hour programs, Shifting Gears will hear from plant workers, car dealers, consumers and civic leaders in cities from Detroit to the Midwest and through the South in an exploration of the changing nature of the U.S. car business. You'll hear interviews with people on the edge of the industrial shift and how it is touching lives, careers, communities and civic life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation
A polio drama focusing on symptoms, illness, and eradication efforts from the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation.
Smiley & West
Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI) is an energetic radio program that is a fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and stimulating dialogue on every subject from news & politics to entertainment & culture. The one-hour weekly show attracts a broad spectrum of compelling guests and asks questions that solicits newsworthy discussions.
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment is a themed, weekly NPR storytelling show. We focus on presenting compelling personal stories - mixing tall tales with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic and kick-ass radio. We are sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and distributed through NPR and Public Radio Exchange (PRX).
Soundcheck ®
Soundcheck®, hosted by John Schaefer, is WNYC’s daily talk show about music. Covering all musical genres, Soundcheck celebrates the musical passions of performers, composers, and critics as well as the public radio audience. Listeners enjoy intimate conversations with and live performances by leading artists from around New York and around the globe.
Speaking of Music
Interviews, commentaries, and discussions with greatest composers, performers, and critics.
Specials
Join us for a curated presentation of special programs from public radio producers across the country.
Spinning on Air
Heard on WNYC since 1987, Spinning On Air has always been about unusual music.
The Splendid Table
The Splendid Table provides listeners and browsers abundant information on food preparation, appreciation, and culture.
The State We're In
Featuring first-person stories from around the world about how we treat each other. The State We're In is a weekly radio program from Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
State of the Re:Union
State of the Re:Union has set out to explore how a particular American city or town creates community, the ways people transcend challenging circumstances and the vital cultural narratives that give an area its uniqueness.
Studio 360
PRI’s Peabody Award-winning “Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen” from WNYC is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. Life is busy – so let “Studio 360” steer you to the must-see movie this weekend, the next book for your nightstand, or the song that will change your life.
Survival Kit
Leonard Lopate welcomes a single provocative guest for a half-hour discussion, beginning with a simple question: what eight (or so) items would you take with you to a remote location for an extended time?
Take the Tunnel
The New York City Tunnel Authority provides historical context for "jaunts around the city."
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The Takeaway
A fresh alternative in news featuring critical conversations, reports from the field, and listener participation. The Takeaway, hosted by John Hockenberry, provides a breadth and depth of world, national, and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.
Talk to the People
The famous Sunday afternoon talks by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, “the people’s mayor.”
The Tavis Smiley Show
The Tavis Smiley Show offers a unique blend of news and newsmakers in expanded conversations on topics ranging from presidential power to reparations for slavery, from campaign finance reform to miscegenation in music videos — all with a special focus on black America.
Tell Me More
Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world.
This American Life
A handheld camera for radio, This American Life takes an intimate look at the drama of the Everyman. Veteran producer Ira Glass shoots from the hip, exploring the lives of oddballs, antiheroes, and just plain folks who quietly fade into our homogenous national landscape. The program shares stories of life and love through monologues, documentaries, short radio plays, "found recordings," and original works for radio, giving you plenty of reasons to linger around the house.
This Week with Mayor Lindsay
An in-depth look at city issues with Mayor John Lindsay.
This is Our Enemy
Office of War Information radio docudrama series describing the activities of the Axis powers.
To The Best of Our Knowledge
TTBOOK is a nationally-syndicated radio show that cracks open the world and the ideas that fuel its engine.
To the Point
Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.
Toward a Return to Society
1946 public service series on the rehabilitative aspect of New York incarceration.
The Treatment
On the Treatment, film critic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the "treatment" to some of the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment.
U. P. A. Forum
The United Parent's Association program tackles various issues related to children and education.
United Nations
Recordings from the United Nations press corps.
Unity At Home, Victory Abroad
A patriotic variety show for Americans of all stripes.
Views on Art
Join host Ruth Bowman as she interviews notable artists, curators, and museum directors. 1967-1973
WNYC American Art Festival
A forum for robust discussion about art.
WNYC Forum of the Air
Balanced discussion of political issues.
WTF with Marc Maron
Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day - WTF? He'll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head. You loved him on Morning Sedition. You kinda liked him on The Marc Maron Show. You tolerated him on Break Room Live. Now, embrace him on a show from which he cannot be fired - WTF with Marc Maron.
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!
The NPR News Quiz, a fast-paced, fresh and funny look at current affairs and the week's events.
Weekend Edition Saturday
Each week, nearly 4 million listeners tune in to Weekend Edition Saturday for two hours of news, features and entertainment anchored by Scott Simon, NPR's Peabody Award-winning host and correspondent.
Weekend Edition Sunday
When Weekend Edition Sunday debuted on Jan. 18, 1987, NPR's morning and evening newsmagazines were extended to seven days a week. Conceived as a cross between a Sunday newspaper and CBS'Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, the program has featured interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians as well as news events including Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison and the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Wordless Music
WNYC presents concerts from the Wordless Music Series, hosted by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad. Devoted to the desegregation of musical boundaries, Wordless Music pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience.
The World
A mix of news, features, interviews and music from around the world presents an engaging portrait of the global community. Produced by BBC World Service, Public Radio International and WGBH Radio Boston.
Your Land and Mine
A monthly series featuring commissioner Carl Madonick of the City's Department of Real Estate.
Your Pocketbook
Scripted show discusses the pennies and nickels of city life.
Youth Builders
A series to teach youngsters about a participatory democracy.