BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Daily Schedule
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12:00 AM
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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06:00 AM
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Getting Aid Through to Haiti
We hear firsthand accounts of last week's devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince, and discuss the challenges ahead for this week as aid comes in from all over the world.
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07:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
Go to program: Morning Edition -
09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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MLK: Generations SpeakOn this Martin Luther King Day, highlights from yesterday’s event at the Brooklyn Museum featuring Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Majora Carter, Eddie Glaude, Major Owens, and Patricia J. Williams. Plus, Pras Michel of the Fugees on the earthquake aftermath.Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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12:00 PM
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Global Economics and GospelNobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how the United States exported bad economic ideas all over the globe. Then Andrew Ross Sorkin suggests questions the Congressional Financial Crisis Commission should be asking. Plus, Leonard will present our annual Martin Luther King Day gospel program!Go to program: The Leonard Lopate Show
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02:00 PM
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Plastic Is ForeverThe Plastic Ono Band was born in 1969 as a collaborative vehicle for John Lennon, Yoko Ono and a group of famous side musicians. Today, Ono joins talks about re-launching the band with her son and other young stars. Plus: Barbaros Erköse hails from long line of Roma clarinetists in ...Go to program: Soundcheck
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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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.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PM
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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.
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08:00 PM
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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.
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09:00 PM
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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.
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10:00 PM
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Plastic Is ForeverThe Plastic Ono Band was born in 1969 as a collaborative vehicle for John Lennon, Yoko Ono and a group of famous side musicians. Today, Ono joins talks about re-launching the band with her son and other young stars. Plus: Barbaros Erköse hails from long line of Roma clarinetists in ...Go to program: Soundcheck
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11:00 PM
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#2760: African BluesThis New Sounds program is all about bluesy music from the continent that invented it - Africa. Listen to works by Afel Bocoum, an heir-apparent to the Malian desert blues sound introduced to the world by Ali Farka Toure, who was his uncle. There's also music from a collaboration between ...Go to program: New Sounds