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!
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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Who speaks for the 9/11 families? Plus: Google’s switch on Net Neutrality; polling Hispanic America; working Moms; and following the money in this year’s primary races.
First up on the show: a look at Iraq's political scene in the four months since its elections. Then, Andrew Beahrs describes his quest to find Mark Twain’s favorite regional American dishes. Also, Ayelet Waldman talks about her latest novel, Red Hook Road. Plus a pair of linguists tell us about their work to record and save dying languages.
Arcade Fire's new album is No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Canadian indie rock group sold 156,000 copies of The Suburbs, but not everyone’s buying the band’s epic songwriting style and hyper-intense live performances. Today, our critics debate Arcade Fire in a Soundcheck Smackdown. Plus: live music from New York jazz ensemble Respect Sextet.
Tell us: What do you think of Arcade Fire and their new album? Leave a comment and let us know.
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.
Arcade Fire's new album is No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Canadian indie rock group sold 156,000 copies of The Suburbs, but not everyone’s buying the band’s epic songwriting style and hyper-intense live performances. Today, our critics debate Arcade Fire in a Soundcheck Smackdown. Plus: live music from New York jazz ensemble Respect Sextet.
Tell us: What do you think of Arcade Fire and their new album? Leave a comment and let us know.
For this New Sounds, we’ll explore many different hybrid ensembles aboard. We’ll hear music by composer/programmer/performer/theorist and yes, mandolinist as well as professor at Dartmouth College, Larry Polansky. Polansky’s latest release involves the Dutch electric guitar quartet, Zwerm, together with the saxophone quartet [sic] and additional percussion, harp and electronics!
