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  • 12:00 AM
  • Crazy Cooking and Crazy Heart
    Chris Kimball, host of the PBS show "America’s Test Kitchen" offers tips on avoiding and surviving kitchen calamities this holiday season. Then, Lidia Bastianich discusses her latest Italian cookbook! And, Four-time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges on his new film "Crazy Heart."

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  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 07:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Transit Solutions
    A key MTA board has approved a budget that drastically reduces both bus and train services, including discounted student fares. Gene Russianoff of the Straphanger’s Campaign discusses what to expect and why the MTA is in such dire shape. Plus, Greg David on how to really get banks lending again; ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Standards of Excellence
    Today, we’ll look into the efficacy of standardized tests with a man who spent 15 years working in the testing industry. Then, Jane Alison talks about her memoir The Sisters Antipodes. And two writers talk about being commissioned by the Flea Theater to write short plays on "The Great Recession." ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Critics' Week: Decade Smackdown
    The 2000s: good or bad for music? It was the decade when music went digital, songs shuffled on iPods, and American Idol became the most popular show on TV. On today’s Soundcheck Smackdown, we debate whether such changes have left the music world better off. Also: New Jersey’s buzzy, beachy ...
  • 03:00 PM
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  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Critics' Week: Decade Smackdown
    The 2000s: good or bad for music? It was the decade when music went digital, songs shuffled on iPods, and American Idol became the most popular show on TV. On today’s Soundcheck Smackdown, we debate whether such changes have left the music world better off. Also: New Jersey’s buzzy, beachy ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3016: Ben Frost, Compositional Doom
    Australian-born, Iceland-based composer and sound artist Ben Frost shares his ghostly and paranoid new release "By The Throat." Frost has brought a number of collaborators on board, including composer Nico Muhly, Swedish metal band Crowpath, Arcade Fire drummer Jeremy Gara and all-female Icelandic string quartet Amiina to help create this ...