Daily Schedule

We’ll visit the front lines of contemporary psychotherapy and talk to one therapist who claims we’re fighting a war on unhappiness. Then, award-winning author Grace Young gives tips on mastering the wok. Also, wine expert Harry Karis on the French wine region Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Plus, our latest Underreported segments look at the massive floating patch of garbage in the Atlantic Ocean and at the problem that an increasing amount of space junk poses to satellites and spaceships!

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Hear New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and her challenger, Reshma Saujani, discuss their Democratic primary election bids. Plus, a look at the health of the U.S. economy; the NYC...

Musicians like Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Sting earned career-defining acclaim early on, but produced bewildering or disappointing work later. But maybe they didn't "lose it." Perhaps we're just not smart enough to understand their art. Today: the Advanced Genius Theory, a brilliant pop-culture philosophy -- or a crazy idea hatched at a Pizza Hut. (Or both.) Also: Cellist Joshua Roman made a splash at age 22 by winning principal cello in the Seattle Symphony. Now a solo artist, Roman stops by perform live in our studio.

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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 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.

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.

Music by Steve Reich on this New Sounds - a piece of classical music for a rock band - his "2 x 5," from a new recording.  There's also music for electric guitar in a chamber music setting by Canadian composer Tim Brady, inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich, "Hocket, Canon, Fugue."  Plus, listeen to a work for a hybrid electro-acoustic ensemble by Paola Prestini.