The Next Big Thing
11am on WNYC 93.9 FM and 1pm on WNYC AM 820
Dean Olsher looks to the world outside our borders, bringing domestic radio listeners international voices describing their 9-11 experiences. With contributions from Brazil, Australia, England, Spain and more.

Unscripted: A Theater Community Responds to 9/11
2pm on WNYC AM 820

New Jersey lost many residents on 9/11. Unscripted examines how its theater community responded to the tragedy and how individual actors, playwrights and artistic directors view the role of theater in helping themselves and others heal. It includes excerpts from an emotional gathering of theater professionals a few months after 9/11. The program features interviews with playwrights and scenes from productions in the New York and New Jersey area about 9/11 and its aftermath. Included is a talk with writer and journalist Anne Nelson, whose first play, "The Guys", is running to sold out audiences at the Flea Theater in New York. "The Guys" is based on Nelson's experience writing funeral speeches for a NYC fire captain. Listeners will hear Anthony Pennino talk about his play "Meditations from North America" - a fictional account of a kidnapped US journalist in a Philippine terrorist prison camp. Pennino wrote the play while following the Daniel Pearl story. The program also includes an interview with performance artist Reno, who lives blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center. Her one-woman show shares her reflections on the attacks and their implications.

After 9/11: The New War On Terrorism
3pm on WNYC AM 820

NPR's Susan Stamberg hosts an examination of the war on terrorism's impact in 3 areas: US foreign policy, the use of surveillance technology, and FBI tactics within our borders. The hour-long special draws connections between pieces that will air separately on ATC.
Mike Shuster shows that the Bush administration's unilateralist stance, its desire to "go it alone" in the world, has become stronger since 9/11. From the fight in Afghanistan to administration policies in the Middle East, US relations with Russia, and even the administration's attitude toward NATO, Bush's team has taken a binary view of the world: 'either you're with us or against us.'
Chris Joyce shows how the government is pushing technology as the way to prevent future terrorist attacks. Many experts insist we don't need more data, but rather new ways to mine and manipulate data-to see patterns amid the chaos of facts that add up to intelligence -- and to get it to the people who count.
Barbara Bradley looks at FBI tactics and their impact on civil liberties in the age of terror. She talks with FBI agents who investigate terrorism about how 9/11 has changed their rules and with a Muslim who fits the profile of an FBI target.

Studio 360: Memorials
7pm on WNYC AM 820

This week in Studio 360, host Kurt Andersen and poet Donald Hall look at the human desire to make present what has been lost. They find memorials joyful and sad, in painting, in poetry, and in totem poles. And they consider the requiem written by composer John Adams in memory of those lost on September 11th. Special Guest: Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. From 1984 to 1989 he served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.

Evening Music
7pm on WNYC 93.9 FM

WNYC’s Margaret Juntwait interviews music directors and clergy at diverse houses of worship around New York City about the role of holy music during the past year. What role has holy music played in helping worshippers with the healing process? How does music speak to us spiritually and in times of crisis? How have New Yorkers responded to music? Juntwait will also play selected classical works of healing and redemption, as well as more popular forms of expression, by Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, and even bluegrass tunes.

Radio Lab
8pm on AM 820 WNYC
This week's Radio Lab will present a hand-picked selection of short radio works that deal with a wide range of 9/11-related ideas, emotions and experiences. Listeners will hear stories about a Staten Island tattoo parlor that has completed over 200 commemorative works for city workers and their families and an examination of the Marketing of Patriotism. Radio Lab will continue with two, one-hour programs: The Sonic Memorial Special and Speaking of Faith: The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11.

Sonic Memorial
9pm on WNYC AM 820

The Sonic Memorial Special is an intimate, historic and sound-rich documentary marking the anniversary of 9/11 through stories, sound and archival audio. The special interweaves elements from Sonic Memorial stories heard over the past year on All Things Considered with voice mail messages, on-site recordings, oral histories, remembrances and stories collected from listeners nationwide who called NPR's Sonic Memorial phone line. The Sonic Memorial Special features stories that focus on little known aspects of the history and life of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood, including Radio Row, the district of electronics shops displaced by the building of the WTC, and the Mohawk ironworkers who helped construct the towers and who returned after 9/11 to disassemble the twisted steel. Stories of the politics and public opinion surrounding the towers are told by the man who masterminded the construction of the buildings, and by the young college co-ed construction guides he hired to educate the public and put a friendly face on the project, in addition to artists, bankers, office staff, elevator and maintenance workers. Each tower had a thousand sounds; every floor had a thousand stories.

Speaking of Faith: The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11
10pm on WNYC AM 820
Radio Lab, WNYC’s Sunday evening documentary showcase, delves into the uncomfortable religious and moral questions posed by the September terrorist attacks. Through compelling stories and conversation, evocative sound and music, the show explores the spiritual fallout of 9/11. This hour features the riveting first-person account of producer Marge Ostroushko, who was granted unique access to private worship communities in and around Ground Zero - and came away with tape you won’t hear anywhere else, including her experiences at the ash-swirled Ground Zero final service, and her interview with the priest who coordinated the 24-hour team of clergy who blessed every human remain found since 9/11. Listeners will also hear from Parker Palmer, a Quaker author and teacher; Phyllis Tickle, Publisher’s Weekly Religion Editor; and Ingrid Mattson, the first woman vice-president of the Islamic Society of North America. [Produced by First Person (MPR).]

Thanks to Fred Froehlich for the use of his photos.