On today’s show, guest host Andy Borowitz fills in for Leonard Lopate. First, we’ll find out about new proposals for using surveillance instead of imprisonment for certain criminals. Then, Micah Toub talks about growing up as the son of two shrinks. And Jennifer Vanderbes discusses her latest novel: Strangers at the Feast.
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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.
We'll start off the show by looking at the BP oil spill's potential long-term effects on the environment and people. Then James Mauro tells us about the 1939 New York City World's Fair. Also, comedienne Kristen Schaal tells us about her book, The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, and her work in comedy. Plus, well get a sneak peak of unheard jazz recordings from the 1930s that were recently acquired by the National Jazz Museum.
As the Metropolitan Opera launches a 10-day “HD Festival” this week at Lincoln Center, the debate resumes over sending concerts and opera performances out to audiences in movie theaters. Some say it will lead to a more reality show-type approach, placing a greater emphasis on looks over musicality; others believe it’s a democratizing force, bringing high art to remote audiences. Grab your popcorn; it’s a debate for this week's Soundcheck Smackdown.
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.
As the Metropolitan Opera launches a 10-day “HD Festival” this week at Lincoln Center, the debate resumes over sending concerts and opera performances out to audiences in movie theaters. Some say it will lead to a more reality show-type approach, placing a greater emphasis on looks over musicality; others believe it’s a democratizing force, bringing high art to remote audiences. Grab your popcorn; it’s a debate for this week's Soundcheck Smackdown.
This New Sounds brings us something from cellists Zoe Keating, Erik Friedlander, and Brent Arnold. The San Francisco-based Keating loops layers upon layers of cello to create her own one-woman orchestra. We'll hear from her latest, "Into the Trees."
