Daily Schedule

Guest host Miles O’Brien fills in for Leonard Lopate. We’ll talk to a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who was also was a spy for the United States. We'll also talk to journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting on the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia formed the basis for the movie The Killing Fields. Then, we’ll find out how the worldwide economic recession has affected the building boom in Dubai. Later, a look at how an accountant from the Bronx created a Ponzi scheme that pulled in the rich and famous.

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

The away-at- college experience for students in the Facebook, Twitter, and texting era; a thoroughly informal, unscientific Connecticut primary day poll; and wrapping up the “Your ...

The Carpenters became the top selling musical act of the seventies. But behind their frothy sound lurked family tension and a severe eating disorder. On today's show, guest host Jacqueline Cincotta speaks with Randy L. Schmidt, author of Little Girl Blue, a new book about the late singer Karen Carpenter. Also: rock outfit The Walkmen perform songs from their forthcoming album, “Lisbon.”

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.

For this New Sounds, we'll sample from a collection of remixes of music by Omar Faruk Teklbilek and hear some Saharan desert blues from Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara.   There's also the Texas-based Ocote Soul Sounds and a recent release from Vieux Farka Toure, "Fondo."  Plus, listen to a marriage of Klezmer and Afropop from reedman Oran Etkin.  And more.