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  • 12:00 AM
  • Holiday Spirit
    Leonard Lopate hosts his annual Christmas gospel hour. Then we replay some favorite interviews from the past few months, starting with Marcel Theroux, who discusses about his novel Far North, one of this year’s National Book Award Finalists. Then Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger talks about why architecture matters.
  • 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.

  • 05:30 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 07:00 AM
  • December 25, 2009
    An anniversary of Y2K panic; a history of horror films; how Hitchcock's "Psycho" changed everything
  • 08:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 10:00 AM
  • For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

  • 11:00 AM
  • The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

  • 12:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Sherlock, Jones, Patti Smith

    The game's afoot -- from Baker Street to Minnesota to Kathmandu. We'll follow the clues to decipher how Sherlock Holmes has stayed fresh for more than a century. We'll meet "Sherlock Holmes in sneakers" -- 5th grade detective "Encyclopedia Brown" -- and also the creator of hit TV show "House," whose powers (and weaknesses) are modeled on Holmes'. Plus, a conversation with rock and roll poet Patti Smith, who is the subject of a new documentary airing on PBS.

  • 05:00 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.

  • 06:00 PM
  • Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

  • 08:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 09:00 PM
  • ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

  • 10:00 PM
  • Classic and contemporary short fiction read by some of the most iconic voices in today’s world of film, theater and comedy. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City.

     

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2750: World Music with Horns
    Listen to some Jewish-Cuban jazz with horns from "Odessa/Havana" by trumpeter, composer and long-time leader of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band David Buchbinder along with music that celebrates the the elusive Jewish community of Cuba by Roberto Rodriguez. Plus, some Afro-Cuban Afrobeaty highlife from San Francisco band Aphrodesia from their ...