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  • 12:00 AM
  • My Life Behind the...
    On today’s show, Charles Bowden talks about the troubled border town Juarez, Mexico, which has a higher murder rate than Baghdad. Then, Mitzi Gaynor describes what she calls her life behind the sequins! Also, the new rock musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” is now playing at the Public Theater to ...
  • 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.

  • 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
  • Oh So Taxing

    Meet millionaires who want taxes to be HIGHER; Jim Sleeper on his recent columns; and your suggestions for re-working the tax structure.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Stories from Africa and around the World
    On today’s show, we’ll speak with the filmmaker Connie Field and anti-apartheid activist Adwoa Dunn-Mouton, about the new documentary “Have You Heard from Johannesburg,” a chronicle of the worldwide movement of ordinary people to defeat apartheid in South Africa. And Lisa Shannon talks about her decision to give up a ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Behold the Written Word
    Reading program notes can actually reduce your enjoyment of a piece of music, according to a new study. Today: we debate whether program notes make you an informed listener – or if "ignorance is bliss." Then, former 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant shares her latest two-disc album of original music ...
  • 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
  • Behold the Written Word
    Reading program notes can actually reduce your enjoyment of a piece of music, according to a new study. Today: we debate whether program notes make you an informed listener – or if "ignorance is bliss." Then, former 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant shares her latest two-disc album of original music ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3064: O' Death and Taxes

    For this New Sounds, we'll have the grim and gripping classic "O Death," sung by the legendary bluegrass singer Ralph Stanley, along with composer Oscar Bettison’s work by the same name. Bettison’s “O Death” is a seven-movement requiem masque which mixes saxophones, trombone, banjo and piano with jaw's harps, harmonicas, ...