Daily Schedule

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, ...

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.

The details of the health care bill continue to emerge, and the negotiations over reconciling the Senate and House bills has begun. Stephen Moore, Senior Economics writer for Wall Street Journal, offers his take. Plus, inside the college admissions process and your questions about college applications answered; legendary sportswriter Ira ...

To some of us, holidays in New York are about "Silver Bells" on every street corner. To others, they mean Gridlock Alert Days, clanging radiators, and carols blaring from stores. Today, we'll look at why December is such a noisy time of year -- and what you can do about ...

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.

This is another part in the series, "NightMusic" an hour of works that evoke the darkness, the stillness, the mystery and the uncertainty of night. We'll hear "Dark Was The Night" a song without words from Phil Kline's apocalyptic mass, "John the Revelator," featuring the vocal group Lionheart and the ...