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  • 12:00 AM
  • Space Race
    In the light of President Obama's proposed NASA budget, we’ll look into the future of space exploration…and its growing commercialization. Then, Jim Lahey, of the Sullivan Street Bakery discusses his revolutionary technique of making bread that requires no kneading! Also, Amy Bloom tells us about her critically acclaimed new story ...
  • 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
  • Help Wanted

    The Brian Lehrer Show's Online Job-Search Community

  • 12:00 PM
  • Dark Comedy
    On today’s show we’ll talk to three of the stars of Sam Mendes’s new production of “As You Like It,” currently at BAM. Then, we’ll take a stroll through the murky land of conspiracy theories. Plus, Steven Amsterdam tells us about his new collection of short stories. And our latest ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • When Animals Sound Off
    They may not be landing record deals and writing songs, but animals are musical in their own right. Our Thursday series Sing Out looks at why blue whales are singing in a different key today than they did in the age of the Beach Boys. Plus: a history of animals ...
  • 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
  • The Space Age began when America was going through a wrenching battle over Civil Rights.  And because the heart of the old Confederacy was chosen as its base, NASA  played an unintended role in Civil Rights history.  In this program, we hear how this happened and we hear the stories ...

  • 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
  • When Animals Sound Off
    They may not be landing record deals and writing songs, but animals are musical in their own right. Our Thursday series Sing Out looks at why blue whales are singing in a different key today than they did in the age of the Beach Boys. Plus: a history of animals ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2879: The Blues, Reinvented
    Listen to the blues, reinvented, for this New Sounds program. Hear chamber folk by Last Forever, some of America's oldest soul music in settings that combine spinet, harmonium, hammer dulcimer, violin, guitar, and banjo. Also, there are performances of classic blues by contemporary acts like North Carolina’s the Backsliders, New ...