Daily Schedule

Show All Details
  • 12:00 AM
  • 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 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
  • Obama Considers Bank Tax

    Taxpayers spent $700 billion on the Wall Street bailout last year. Now financial insitutions are reporting record profits and the White House is looking for ways to get some of the money back -- by imposing a tax on large banks. Officials say that President Obama will try to recoup $120 billion this way.

  • 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
  • Revelations
    The new book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, has created controversy over the revelations of embarrassing statements and actions by prominent political figures during the 2008 elections. Hear the authors discuss the book. Plus, ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • What Makes for Greatness
    Today we’ll explore the qualities that make a great teacher…and be sure to tell us what you think by calling or leaving a comment below. Then, Daniel Menaker explains what makes for a good conversation. Plus, legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne discusses her career and her return to Carnegie Hall. And ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Look Out, Broadway: Here Comes Green Day
    The Great White Way will soon get a visit from a stage musical based on Green Day’s album "American Idiot." Join us as we debate rock music on Broadway in another Soundcheck Smackdown. Also: Quartet San Francisco interprets the sacred music of Dave Brubeck.
  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • Look Out, Broadway: Here Comes Green Day
    The Great White Way will soon get a visit from a stage musical based on Green Day’s album "American Idiot." Join us as we debate rock music on Broadway in another Soundcheck Smackdown. Also: Quartet San Francisco interprets the sacred music of Dave Brubeck.
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3025: Violin Works
    For this New Sounds, listen to the new recording, "September Canons" featuring violinist Todd Reynolds performing a piece written for him by American composer Ingram Marshall. It’s a soaring, searing work for violin with electronic processing, and is a "lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001." Also, hear music ...