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.
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.
Life for soldiers after war; our August series on book publishing; giving up calories to live a longer life; and "the professional left" vs. the White House.
David Callahan looks into what he sees as a new trend in the United States—where the wealthy are drifting to the political left. Then, discover how the great heat wave of 1896 boosted Theodore Roosevelt’s career. Also, Aamir Khan on “Peepli Live”—the first Indian film ever shown at Sundance. Plus our latest Backstory segments look at a scandal at Arlington National Cemetery, and the history and use of the filibuster in the US Senate.
Rapper Wyclef Jean recently announced he is running for president of Haiti. Yet musicians have frequently had trouble making the move into politics. Today, guest host Elliott Forrest takes a look how artists fare as politicians and leaders. Also: the clapping, snapping, stomping and throat-singing sounds of the Body Music Festival.
Tell us: What can an artist bring to a higher office? Leave a comment.
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.
Rapper Wyclef Jean recently announced he is running for president of Haiti. Yet musicians have frequently had trouble making the move into politics. Today, guest host Elliott Forrest takes a look how artists fare as politicians and leaders. Also: the clapping, snapping, stomping and throat-singing sounds of the Body Music Festival.
Tell us: What can an artist bring to a higher office? Leave a comment.
The best-known Arabic classical music is likely an ancient Moorish song called "Lamma Bada Yata Thanna," a fascinating piece of music set in the samai rhythm, which is written in 10/8. Its origins can be traced back to the tenth century, and it continues to be a familiar in the Arabic world today. As part of one of New Sounds' Theme & Variations shows, we hear versions by Juan Martin & Alhambra, Radio Tarifa, Hamza El Din, and others.
