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  • 12:00 AM
  • Secrets and Shadows

    Technology journalist Julia Angwin discusses her latest series about the information that companies, websites, and even police agencies can collect about you based on your Internet searches. Then Thomas French gives an account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants: both animal and human. And Stefanie Syman tells the story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry. Plus, our latest Underreported segments look at India’s Maoist insurgency and pharmaceutical counterfeiting in Southeast Asia.

  • 02:00 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
  • Reform for You

    How can Healthcare Reform benefit unemployed New Yorkers today? Plus, handicapping the 31st district State Senate race; copy-editing the USA; and your calls on follow-up Friday.

  • 12:00 PM
  • For Profit

    On today’s show: We’ll take a look at how for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix work, and why they've become so controversial. Then we'll talk to the director of a new documentary about the death of Pat Tillman, and how the government handled it. Also, John Brandon discusses his new novel, Citrus Country. Plus, our latest Please Explain is all about canning and pickling!

  • 02:00 PM
  • A Jazz Treasure Trove Unearthed

    In the 1930s an audio engineer named William Savory made hundreds of recordings of jazz greats - and then secreted them away. Today: a mysterious collection of never before heard radio broadcast recordings from the likes of Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Also: live music from Paris-based, Afro-funk ensemble Bibi Tanga and The Selenites.

  • 03:00 PM
  • The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • 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
  • A Jazz Treasure Trove Unearthed

    In the 1930s an audio engineer named William Savory made hundreds of recordings of jazz greats - and then secreted them away. Today: a mysterious collection of never before heard radio broadcast recordings from the likes of Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Also: live music from Paris-based, Afro-funk ensemble Bibi Tanga and The Selenites.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2945: New Sounds Live with The Bad Plus

    From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, the post-jazz piano trio Bad Plus performs their striking mix of rockin’ originals and equally rockin’ covers – of Stravinsky and other classical works.  And the Benevento/Mathis/Barr trio, also a keyboard-based, post-jazz band, plugs in and plays both originals and surprising covers.