Daily Schedule

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 ...

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

A day after the federal income tax deadline, is it time to consider a consumption tax? Also, will doormen strike? the stigma of gaps in your resume; and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean on air travel.

As die-hard music shoppers prepare to celebrate Record Store Day this weekend, we hear about the companies who provide raw material for the country's remaining brick-and-mortar shops: independent labels. Plus: the indie pioneers of the 1940s and '50s who became major players. Later: the Australian rock duo An Horse plays ...

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.

Fresh Air is one of the most popular programs on public radio, breaking the "talk show" mold, and Gross is known for her fearless and insightful interviews with prominent figures in American arts, politics, and popular culture.

Inspired by Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura's trilogy of "music movies," we hear Portuguese fado, Spanish flamenco, and Argentine tango in various permutations, including music by Mariza, Mariza & Miguel Poveda, Astor Piazzolla, Rafael Jimenez, and others. Some are sampled from the most recent of Saura's films, "Fados," like Amália Rodrigues, ...