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  • 12:00 AM
    BBC World Service
  • BBC News World Service

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

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  • 06:00 AM
    BBC World Service
  • BBC News World Service

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

    Go to program: BBC World Service
  • 07:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 AM
    Studio 360
  • Evolution

    Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin's bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since "On the Origin of Species" was published. Darwin's descendant, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a way to believe in both God and the fossil record. Plus the world premiere of a short science fiction story by Lydia Millet, imagining the downside of messing too much with genes.

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  • 12:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
    Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!

  • 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.

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  • 05:00 PM
    All Things Considered

  • 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.

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  • 06:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 07:00 PM
    This American Life

  • 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. 

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  • 08:00 PM
    Spinning on Air
  • The Wingdale Community Singers Return
    A community of Brooklyn-based songwriters, The Wingdale Community Singers continues the old folk tradition of keenly observed songs about the worlds around us and within us. Comprised of novelist Rick Moody, visual artist Nina Katchadourian, and composers Hannah Marcus and David Grubbs, the band, along with bassist Elyssa Linowes, returns ...
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  • 09:00 PM
    Bullseye
  • Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

    Jesse Thorn cuts through the weeds of pop culture, with irreverent comedy, in-depth interviews and a keen eye for what’s worth knowing about.

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  • 10:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 PM
    New Sounds
  • #2737: Electroacoustic Music
    Listen for some electroacoustic music on this edition of the show by none other than So Percussion, the tube, block, and pipe-beating quartet of drummers, from their latest "Amid the Noise." Plus, hear a work from Martin Bresnick, his "Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon." The marimba player on ...
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