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  • 12:00 AM
  • Rising to the Challenge
    Eliot Spitzer gives us his take on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the current state of Wall Street. And we’ll speak with the Israeli and Palestinian co-directors of “Ajami,” which has been nominated for an Academy Award. When Ralph Ellison died in 1994, he left behind roughly 2,000 pages ...
  • 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
  • Losing Focus
    As Haiti slips from the headlines, Garry Pierre-Pierre joins us to look at the relief so far, including a discussion of how gender has factored into the efforts and a survey of the emotional toll being felt by Haitian Americans. Plus, Commander Beth Coye, a retired naval officer, on her ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Deep Down
    On today’s show, we’ll look into what a yearlong investigation has revealed about secret prisons in military bases in Afghanistan. Then, Alex Lemon discusses being afflicted with strokes and undergoing brain surgery while he was still a college freshman. Also, science journalist Jeff Wise tells us about the latest research ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Sing Out: Melisma
    Our weekly series Sing Out looks at melisma, the art of running many notes from one syllable. We'll find out how a singing style with roots in Gregorian chants and Indian ragas became all the rage on the American Idol stage. Later: Alabama-born songwriter Allison Moorer began her career in ...
  • 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
  • Sing Out: Melisma
    Our weekly series Sing Out looks at melisma, the art of running many notes from one syllable. We'll find out how a singing style with roots in Gregorian chants and Indian ragas became all the rage on the American Idol stage. Later: Alabama-born songwriter Allison Moorer began her career in ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2877: Giants of African New Music
    Hear works by some of the seminal figures in the development of the global phenomenon called Afropop on this New Sounds. We'll listen to greats by Fela Kuti, Franco, Tabuh Ley Rochereau, Mahlathini, Youssou N'Dour, and more.

    PROGRAM # 2877, Giants of Afropop (First aired on Mon., 12/15/08) ...