Daily Schedule

New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin takes us behind the scenes of the financial crisis as it unfolded last year—from what happened inside the offices of Lehman Brothers to the corridors of power in Washington. Then, we talk about the centennial of the Thanhouser Company, an independent film studio ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

There’s just a week left in the bruising race for New Jersey governor. Hear what Gov. Jon Corzine and independent candidate Chris Daggett would do to manage the Garden State’s taxes. Plus Jay Walder, the new chairman of the MTA. And: the week-long series on inductees into the People’s Hall ...

With TV shows like HBO’s True Blood and films like Zombieland, vampires and zombies are dominating pop culture this year. Today: Armed with garlic and baseball bats, we debate which creature inspires better music. Also: the Brooklyn vocal trio Pearl and the Beard are about to hit the road, but ...

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.

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.

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.

Why the quotation marks? For this New Sounds we’ll hear tunes that might sound like folk songs, but are actually new songs in the folk tradition. Some actually are traditional tunes, as in those from the Carter Family repertoire – in the case of a Bill Frisell offering, and some ...