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.
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.
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.
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 (formerly The Sound of Young America)
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.
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.
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.
Danny Stiles' Music Museum
Every Saturday, the sounds of big band music ring out over the airwaves as Danny Stiles, the "Vicar of Vintage," sets your radio aglow with songs, remembrances, and the spin only he can give.
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.
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.
For Your Ears Only
Each weekend FOR YOUR EARS ONLY (formerly Newsweek On Air) talks with newsmakers, top journalists and experts on key trends in politics, foreign affairs, health, high-tech, money, the arts and more.
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.
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 87 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
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. You’ll find the objects from the British Museum, programmes and downloads on the A History of the World site.
Find detail and facts about the objects and view them in detail using deep zoom technology, here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The News Quiz USA
The BBC hit topical comedy show from the UK, ‘The News Quiz’, is coming Stateside.
The NewsHour
The NewsHour continues to provide in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews, discussions and documentary reports.
Newsweek on Air
As of June 5, 2010, Newsweek On Air changes its name to For Your Ears Only. The program will continue to air on WNYC AM820 Sunday mornings at 5am.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rockwell Matters
In this series of free-form radio blogs for WNYC, critic John Rockwell examines cultural topics and events in the news.
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.
To listen to this program, and other recent programs, subscribe to the Selected Shorts podcast
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.
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.
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?
The Takeaway
The Takeaway is the new national morning news program that delivers the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead.
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.
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. We usually produce two hours a week, each revolving around a theme. Some themes are big, like: Are Humans Innately Good? Others go micro, like Revenge of the Nerds. Once we pick the theme, we dig in with interviews that explore the culture, the debate, the stories, the science and the actual sound of it all. And hopefully, when we’re done, we’ve animated the questions along with the answers.
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.
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.
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.