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  • 12:00 AM
  • Leaving a Legacy
    Sometimes parents can unconsciously choose a favorite child, and on today’s show: guest host Julie Burstein talks with a clinical psychologist about what the “favorite child complex” can do to both children and parents. Then, a child psychiatrist discusses the impact her mother’s suicide had on her life. Also, Sadie ...
  • 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.

  • 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
  • Breathing Room
    We’ve all seen the black smoke pouring out of chimneys all around the city. But just what’s behind that pollution, and what is the city doing to help clean up the air? Also today: Comptroller John Liu; Paul Farmer, UN deputy special envoy to Haiti; and Louis Menand on the ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • The White House and Playing House
    Elliott Forrest fills in as guest host. David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times discusses President Obama’s first year in office. Then, journalist and biographer Alanna Nash discusses Elvis Presley’s complex relationships with women. The TV show "Glee" has been a huge hit, and we’ll talk ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Debating Vampire Weekend's Global-Inspired Pop
    New York rock band Vampire Weekend is topping the charts with a new album. Fans may celebrate their catchy hooks and global beats, but critics call them Ivy-league elitists ripping off third world music. We debate whether the group has bite in this week's Soundcheck Smackdown. Also: folk-pop singer-songwriter Suzanne ...
  • 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
  • Debating Vampire Weekend's Global-Inspired Pop
    New York rock band Vampire Weekend is topping the charts with a new album. Fans may celebrate their catchy hooks and global beats, but critics call them Ivy-league elitists ripping off third world music. We debate whether the group has bite in this week's Soundcheck Smackdown. Also: folk-pop singer-songwriter Suzanne ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2875: New Armenian Music
    Listen to some new recordings of old Armenian music on this edition of New Sounds. Isabel Bayrakdarian sings the songs of Gomidas (Komitas) and violist Kim Kashkashian plays the music of Tigran Mansurian. We'll also hear from New York’s Epiphany Project and the vocal trio Zulal as well. Plus, the ...