We'll discuss the background of the BP oil spill. Then Pamela Meyer describes proven techniques to detect deception and lies. Mike Capuzzo and detective William Fleisher talk about the heirs of Sherlock Holmes, and their efforts to solve the world’s most perplexing cold cases. Rosanne Cash looks back on her life and development as an artist.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Airline pilot and Salon.com columnist Patrick Smith talks about all things airplane related. Then, our summer reading series Underappreciated is all about the life and work of Yasunari Kawabata: the first Japanese writer to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Also, Martin Amis discusses his new novel, The Pregnant Widow. Plus, our Gurus of How-To, Al and Larry Ubell, answer your questions about home repair.
Like the 8-track before it, the cassette tape was long ago left for dead by most music fans. Guest host Elliott Forrest finds out what’s driving an unlikely revival of the outdated technology. Plus: the story of a Cleveland music critic who sued his employers comes to a close. And later: mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux tells us about her long history of playing men onstage, and performs live in our studio.
Tell us: Do you still use cassettes? Or, do you miss them? Leave a comment and tell us why.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 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.
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.
Like the 8-track before it, the cassette tape was long ago left for dead by most music fans. Guest host Elliott Forrest finds out what’s driving an unlikely revival of the outdated technology. Plus: the story of a Cleveland music critic who sued his employers comes to a close. And later: mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux tells us about her long history of playing men onstage, and performs live in our studio.
Tell us: Do you still use cassettes? Or, do you miss them? Leave a comment and tell us why.
Musical reminders that troubles between the West and the Middle East are not new – Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI present their mammoth project "Jerusalem." Also on this New Sounds program, Thomas Binkley’s Studio Der Fruehen Musik plays music of the Crusades, Lou Harrison’s "Variations" play with another melody about Jerusalem and the Crusades; and more.
