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  • 12:00 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
  • Blowback on Bonuses?

    It's bonus week on Wall Street and the banks are set to give out huge payouts. Now that banks are getting out from under government restrictions, companies are getting more freedom to pay executives more money. But how will the American public react to these windfall bonuses?

  • 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
  • State of the CIA
    A double-agent bomber was able to kill seven CIA operatives in a single attack. Former CIA officer Robert Baer explains what this means for the CIA, and what these deaths can tell us about how the agency currently operates. Plus: what the latest job numbers mean and how they are ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Megatrends, Miners, and the Human Mind
    John and Doris Naisbitt were given unprecedented access to all of China’s provinces and cities…they'll tell us what they found about the changing country. Then, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward explains why he thinks only one of the Earth’s mass extinctions was caused by outside forces. Also, we’ll get a glimpse ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • There Be No Shelter Here
    Being a touring musician is challenging enough - just try crossing an international border. Today on Soundcheck, we'll look at how new immigration rules are affecting visa policies for foreign performers. And: Cuban and American musicians aim to thaw relations between their countries. Also: British choreographer Richard Alston explains how ...
  • 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
  • There Be No Shelter Here
    Being a touring musician is challenging enough - just try crossing an international border. Today on Soundcheck, we'll look at how new immigration rules are affecting visa policies for foreign performers. And: Cuban and American musicians aim to thaw relations between their countries. Also: British choreographer Richard Alston explains how ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2868: Nearly Sacred Choral Music
    Musica Sacra, the renowned New York-based chorus, performs music by Meredith Monk and the abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Also, listen to excerpts from Morton Feldman's masterwork "Rothko Chapel," and "Atmospheres" by Gyorgy Ligeti. Feldman’s powerfully communicative work, “Rothko Chapel,” is a tribute for his friend, the American abstract expressionist painter, ...