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  • 12:00 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
  • Primary Coverage Kickoff
    GOP candidates for New York’s 13th Congressional district; will the Nets’ new name include “Brooklyn”?; 30 nights of Ramadan in 30 different mosques; and diversity and "gifted and t...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Guest Host: Christopher Walken

    Actor Christopher Walken fills in for Leonard Lopate today! He'll speak with director Jack O'Brien and Richard Easton about their work in theater. Then, actress Zoe Kazan discusses her roles on Broadway and in Hollywood. And the dancer Jacques D'Amboise talks about his life as a dancer and his nonprofit dance foundation. Plus, Lidia Bastianich and her mother, Erminia Motika, talk about cooking—and eating—Italian food!

  • 02:00 PM
  • The New Breed of Songwriter

    The craft of songwriting is drastically changing as music splinters into smaller genres and subgenres. On today's show, how top lyricists--from country music to opera--write songs that they hope will reach an audience and last forever. Also: the indie-rock act Chief plays live in the studio.

  • 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
  • The New Breed of Songwriter

    The craft of songwriting is drastically changing as music splinters into smaller genres and subgenres. On today's show, how top lyricists--from country music to opera--write songs that they hope will reach an audience and last forever. Also: the indie-rock act Chief plays live in the studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2944: Mali Music

    Listen to new music from the West African country of Mali, a veritable hotbed of great voices and great instrumentalists.  For this New Sounds, we’ll hear both the latest from Bamako-born Oumou Sangare ("The Songbird of Wassoulou") - "Seya," and Vieux Farka Touré (son of Ali Farka Touré) - "Fondo," along with something from the kora master Toumani Diabate. Plus, Nigerian kora player and composer Tunde Jegede offers a gorgeous reading of minimalism with Malian Royal Court Music, and more.