Daily Schedule

We’ll speak with the director of a documentary that argues that our schools are becoming increasingly authoritarian. Then, we’ll examine how brain science is changing the world. Also, Elena Gorokhova discusses her memoir about growing up in 1960s Soviet Union. And, the gurus of how-to Al and Larry Ubell answer ...

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

In his new book, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger explores the bumpy history of our country’s free press – and takes a look ahead to the challenges of expanding that freedom around the globe. Plus: updates on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; and Rufus Griscom on what some parents are ...

In the first installment of our series Sing Out, we look at singing as a social activity, one that may be on the decline. Later: British funk-rock group The Heavy joins us for a live performance in our studio.

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.

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.

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.

This New Sounds program features music for wind instruments, like Lebanese Arabic-groove music for the ney flute by Bassam Saba, and Andy Statman's clarinet, as heard in Hassidic tunes that he's arranged on his release, "Between Heaven and Earth." Plus, music by Igor Leonardi from Slovenia, music from Bulgaria, from ...