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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
  • Orchid Hypothesis
    People get passionate about their handheld devices. WNYC staffers Jim Colgan, a producer for The Takeaway, and Mark Phillips, a producer with On the Media, debate the virtues of their machines. Atlantic Magazine contributor David Dobbs talks about the orchid hypothesis and why genetic vulnerabilities might actually be genetic benefits ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Coming Out Swinging
    On today’s show, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter explains why so many Americans have come to mistrust science and major institutions. Then, biographer Wil Haygood describes the life of the great boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. And Thomas Keller the chef/owner of Per Se and The French Laundry, talks about ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Requiem for the Mixtape
    For a generation of Americans, nothing said love like a mixtape. But after iPods and file-sharing conquered the cassette, seduction was never quite the same. Today: an art form that combined DJ skills, amorous intentions -- and good penmanship. Plus: Haydn might be history's most underrated composer. We revisit his ...
  • 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
  • Requiem for the Mixtape
    For a generation of Americans, nothing said love like a mixtape. But after iPods and file-sharing conquered the cassette, seduction was never quite the same. Today: an art form that combined DJ skills, amorous intentions -- and good penmanship. Plus: Haydn might be history's most underrated composer. We revisit his ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3007: Little Match Girl Passion, Live
    From New Sounds Live at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Space, we hear the American premiere of David Lang’s new choral version of his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, "The Little Match Girl Passion." Originally for 4 voices and percussion, it is sung by the NY Virtuoso Singers, with Harold Rosenbaum conducting. The ...