Daily Schedule

Time magazine reporter Bryan Walsh gives us an update on the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. Then, Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams discusses why the United States has resisted signing the International Mine Ban Treaty. And we learn about a scientist's efforts to preserve the world's wheat harvest with ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

President Obama laid out his plan yesterday to turn around the dismal job market. One area of focus was infrastructure development. Petra Todorovich, director of America 2050, discusses how the Administration’s plans will affect the NYC region. Plus, Mark Danner, on his new book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, ...

In a year of unlikely holiday albums, singer and pianist Tori Amos takes the cake with her baroque new release Midwinter Graces. Today, in a broadcast from WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, she talks about the album’s new originals and reworked traditional carols, and performs live for our studio ...

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.

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.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

For this New Sounds show, we’ll hear some Middle Eastern chamber/lounge/world/jazz. It’s hard to know what to call it, but it’s music with a decided Arabic flavor. Listen to the Canadian trio Cordâme (augmented by percussionists and a guitarist) dance around Ellington and Ravel while incorporating Persian music, Indian music, ...