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  • 12:00 AM
  • Soft Landings
    On today’s show, Captain Chesley Sullenberger fills us in on the details of how he – and his crew – landed US Airways Flight 1549 safely in the middle of the Hudson River in January. And, our latest Underreported segment looks at the 25 most important stories from the past ...
  • 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.

  • 05:00 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
  • Changing Guard
    Meet Ross Douthat, the youngest regular columnist ever at the New York Times. He discusses health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and other news of the day. Then: new media and old media don’t get along very well, and that’s just fine by On the Media host Bob Garfield, ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Chat and Chew
    Former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a tour of the history of restaurants in New York. And today’s Please Explain is all about regional accents in the United States.
  • 02:00 PM
  • The Wizard of Wu
    The Wu-Tang Clan’s strange musical cocktail includes equal parts hip hop, martial arts and Staten Island housing-project mythology. The rap collective’s producer and spiritual leader, The RZA, joins us to talk about a religious manifesto and street memoir called The Tao of Wu. And later: a live performance from Swedish ...
  • 03:00 PM
  • The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • 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
  • The Wizard of Wu
    The Wu-Tang Clan’s strange musical cocktail includes equal parts hip hop, martial arts and Staten Island housing-project mythology. The rap collective’s producer and spiritual leader, The RZA, joins us to talk about a religious manifesto and street memoir called The Tao of Wu. And later: a live performance from Swedish ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2841: Sacred Music of the Near East
    Sample some Islamic, Christian, and Jewish music from the Middle East on this New Sounds program. Listen to a performance by Sheik Ahmed Al-Tuni from Upper Egypt, recorded live at the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Also, hear Moroccan cantor Emil Zrihan, presently the cantor of the main synagogue ...