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  • 12:00 AM
  • Growing, Baking, Painting, and Trading
    Gerard Lordahl, of the Council on the Environment’s Open Space Greening Program, discusses gardening and takes your calls! Then, Rose Levy Beranbaum, who wrote the revolutionary The Cake Bible, talks about her latest book on baking. Also, celebrated painter James Rosenquist explains the ideas behind some of his major works. ...
  • 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
  • Better With Age
    A new study reveals the sex lives of older Americans. Edward Laumann, sociology professor at the University of Chicago, talks about how relationships change with age. Plus, Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, offers his opinion on the military strategy in Afghanistan; criticism of the health care ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Performance Review
    We start off our show with three prominent biographers discussing how robber barons Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and Andrew Mellon made their fortunes--and how we can apply lessons of business and philanthropy to today's economy. Then, Kent Tritle on the challenges of conducting Handel’s Messiah with three different choruses. Also, ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Smackdown: Holiday Albums
    This holiday season has seen plenty of unusual seasonal albums, including one from Bob Dylan. We'll separate the stocking stuffers from the lumps of coal in a Soundcheck Smackdown. And: pianist Lisa Moore performs the music of composer Don Byron live in our studio.
  • 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
  • Smackdown: Holiday Albums
    This holiday season has seen plenty of unusual seasonal albums, including one from Bob Dylan. We'll separate the stocking stuffers from the lumps of coal in a Soundcheck Smackdown. And: pianist Lisa Moore performs the music of composer Don Byron live in our studio.
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2863: Not Dead Yet
    Hear world music vocals in ancient (and in some cases dead) languages featured in songs that blur the distinction between past and future. Listen for high-tech sounds married to ancient texts, like the Epiphany Project. There's also Sufi-influenced Arabic folk music from Dozan, a choir founded by Jordanian vocalist Shireen ...