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  • 12:00 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
  • A Look Back
    20 years ago today the Berlin Wall came down. Three authors of books on the fall of communism and its repercussions mark the occasion. Plus, 2009 is also the 10th anniversary of Radio Rookies, the WNYC program that lets teenagers tell their own stories on the air. Three past and ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Breaking Through
    Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we’ll speak with two of the foremost experts on Soviet and Eastern European affairs: Stephen Kotkin and Stephen Cohen. Then, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese's longtime editor and Michael Powell’s widow, discusses the restoration of Powell's 1948 classic ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Ask The Record Doctor
    Sometimes a piece of music can provide relief in a time of crisis – a layoff, a divorce, a disastrous day on Wall Street. Today, The Record Doctor returns to suggest recordings that can be used to cope with life’s big dilemmas. Also: Live music from the Bollywood singer (and ...
  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • Ask The Record Doctor
    Sometimes a piece of music can provide relief in a time of crisis – a layoff, a divorce, a disastrous day on Wall Street. Today, The Record Doctor returns to suggest recordings that can be used to cope with life’s big dilemmas. Also: Live music from the Bollywood singer (and ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2848: New Music Em Portugues
    Experience Arabic Fado from Lebanese oud virtuoso Rabih Abou-Khalil for this New Sounds. It’s a triumph of an idea - Portuguese poems set to music performed by an international band and fronted by a young fado singer from Lisbon, Ricardo Ribeiro. In fact, the Guardian critic John L Walters, describes ...