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  • 12:00 AM
  • 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 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
  • Good Enough
    St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village is in dire financial straits. Hear City Council Speaker Christine Quinn discuss the fate of the hospital now that Continuum Health Partners' buyout offer is off the table. Plus, allegations of police abuse in public housing; pooling Haiti relief efforts; the ongoing fallout at ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Plastic and Fantastic
    We’ll start off today’s show with our latest Please Explain, which is all about bisphenol-A, the controversial and potentially dangerous plastic additive. Then, RuPaul offers us some fashion tips. And Josh Rouse tells us how a Cuban cabaret legend inspired his latest album, which he wrote in Spain. We'll also ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Arts Behind Bars
    Growing numbers of correctional facilities are using music to rehabilitate prisoners. Inmates perform plays, watch dancers, and even listen to opera. On today's show, what happens when the arts go behind bars. Plus: turntablist and producer extraordinaire DJ/rupture.
  • 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
  • Arts Behind Bars
    Growing numbers of correctional facilities are using music to rehabilitate prisoners. Inmates perform plays, watch dancers, and even listen to opera. On today's show, what happens when the arts go behind bars. Plus: turntablist and producer extraordinaire DJ/rupture.
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3034: Piano and Percussion
    For this New Sounds, take in some music made by the piano, (technically a percussion instrument), with and without additional percussion and sometimes processing, as in "White Bone Country" by Australian-born, New York-based Andrew Byrne. There's also music by Irish composer Roger Doyle, who uses piano and processing in a ...