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  • 12:00 AM
  • Guiding Principles
    Michael Pollan shares some of his rules for eating wisely in the New Year. Then, Tracy Chevalier and Shelley Emling look at the life and times of Mary Anning, a world-renowned 19th-century paleontologist. Plus the director and one of the stars of a charmingly innovative production of Noel Coward’s play ...
  • 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.

  • 06:00 AM
  • Reviewing the Intel

    Yesterday, President Obama said intelligence officials failed to connect the dots to prevent the Christmas Day almost-bomber from boarding his plane. We look at the outcome of the president's meeting with intelligence agencies and how the agencies can better communicate to prevent terrorism plots in the future.

  • 07:00 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
  • Next for New York
    Economist Alan Tonelson argues for the re-industrialization of the U.S. economy in this month’s Harper’s Magazine. Plus, The Drum Major Institute’s plan for New York City’s future; remembering Percy Sutton; previewing the State of the State address; and Facebook privacy.
  • 12:00 PM
  • Journeys Far and Wide
    We’ll find out why American immigration agents are detaining longtime U.S. residents who have no criminal records--and where our government is holding them. Then Michael Muhammad Knight talks about what he learned during his travels to some of Islam’s most holy sites. Plus, we’ll speak with the two filmmakers of ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • When Musical Instruments meet Airline Security
    Strict security measures on airline flights have often posed challenges for musicians with instruments but some say things are getting even tougher after the failed Christmas Day airline bombing. Today: how musicians can prepare for air travel. Guests will include Dave Carroll, a musician whose guitar was damaged by baggage ...
  • 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
  • When Musical Instruments meet Airline Security
    Strict security measures on airline flights have often posed challenges for musicians with instruments but some say things are getting even tougher after the failed Christmas Day airline bombing. Today: how musicians can prepare for air travel. Guests will include Dave Carroll, a musician whose guitar was damaged by baggage ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3022: John Schaefer's Top 10 of 2009
    For this New Sounds, listen to John Schaefer's completely personal and opinionated look at the ten best new music releases of 2009. There just might be something by a death jazz piano trio, a banjo player, and perhaps an indie rocker's tribute to a major thoroughfare, along with some big ...