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  • 12:00 AM
  • Power Mixer
    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills discusses the role the atomic bomb played in strengthening the American presidency. Then, Mary Gordon, who often found herself at odds with those who call themselves Christians, tells us some of the surprising things she discovered in rereading the Gospels. Also, Dorothy Cann Hamilton and ...
  • 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
  • Free and Fair
    Some are outraged over the recent Supreme Court ruling that protects corporate political spending. Hear why the former CEO of MetLife, Harry Kamen, thinks the ruling is as bad for corporations as it is for democracy. Plus, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lawrence Lessig weighs in ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Shuffling the Decks
    On today’s show we’ll look at how the Iraq War contributed to the shift of global power away from American dominance. Then, 100 years ago Paris was largely underwater. Jeffrey Jackson tells us how Parisians came together to survive the great flood of 1910. Plus, we’ll celebrate the 40th anniversary ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Super Spectacle
    British rockers The Who are the latest megastars to be tapped for a Super Bowl performance. But the game's halftime show has a track record of controversy and lackluster performances. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on live music at the Super Bowl. Plus: pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Chopin, "the poet ...
  • 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
  • Super Spectacle
    British rockers The Who are the latest megastars to be tapped for a Super Bowl performance. But the game's halftime show has a track record of controversy and lackluster performances. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on live music at the Super Bowl. Plus: pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Chopin, "the poet ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3032: New Music Soundtracks
    For this New Sounds, listen to some new music film scores by the likes of John Zorn, and keyboardist, composer and producer Wayne Horvitz. Plus, from Greece, there's music by Eleni Karaindrou, along with music from Michael Nyman and Philip Glass. And much more.

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