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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.

  • 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
  • Expand and Retract

    If a new city proposal passes, water rates will increase almost 13%. Cas Holloway, commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection explains the hike. Plus, a theory of an impending global population crash; bike lane debates in Brooklyn; the doctors’ point of view on the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital; and the pursuit of silence.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Wise Ones
    Live from Afghanistan, former NPR correspondent Sarah Chayes gives us an update on what’s happening there. Then, Army gunner Ryan Conklin describes what it's been like for him to serve on the front lines in Iraq. And Olga Grushin discusses her second novel, The Line. Also, science writer Stephen Hall ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Road Warriors
    Behind every great live act is a great tour manager. Today: a look at the unsung heroes of the concert business who stay up late, get up early and drive the tour van. Later: Vermont-born folk singer and banjoist Sam Amidon joins us to play live.

    Pulitzer Prize Winner announced: ...
  • 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
  • Road Warriors
    Behind every great live act is a great tour manager. Today: a look at the unsung heroes of the concert business who stay up late, get up early and drive the tour van. Later: Vermont-born folk singer and banjoist Sam Amidon joins us to play live.

    Pulitzer Prize Winner announced: ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3062: Lute Around the World

    On this New Sounds program, explore music from the lute family, embracing trance traditions, minimalism, and hearkening back to the Renaissance. Listen to works for instruments from Japan (the kugo), from Afghanistan (rebab), and from Mali (kora). We’ll also hear music for sintir or gimbri (from Morocco), along with the ...