Daily Schedule

Show All Details
  • 12:00 AM
  • The Hidden Brain and Underground Crime
    On today’s show, Mike Pesca fills in as guest host. Science writer Shankar Vedantam explains how our unconscious minds help us make all kinds of decisions. Then, we’ll trace the evolution of cybercrime and learn why it’s become so popular with Russian and American gangsters. And we’ll look back at ...
  • 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
  • Borough Budgets
    Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a grim budget – now it’s time to figure out the fallout. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer discuss how they’ll be affected. Plus: how small banks are being helped by the Obama administration; Ben Bernanke’s future; and why the ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Music on the Mind
    Today, Leonard Lopate kicks off the show with a special Please Explain on Indian music, with two musicians who’ll give live demonstrations! Then, Robert Bonfiglio—a man who has been called “America’s leading harmonica virtuoso” stops by to perform! Also, T. C Boyle on his new collection Wild Child and Other ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Mellotron Mania
    In the 1960s, a strange contraption helped shape the music of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. In the ‘70s, it defined progressive rock. Today: the story of the Mellotron. And: what the Live Nation-Tickemaster merger means for music fans. Later: conductor Leon Botstein sheds light on the work of ...
  • 03:00 PM
  • The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • 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
  • Mellotron Mania
    In the 1960s, a strange contraption helped shape the music of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. In the ‘70s, it defined progressive rock. Today: the story of the Mellotron. And: what the Live Nation-Tickemaster merger means for music fans. Later: conductor Leon Botstein sheds light on the work of ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3031: January 2010 New Releases
    It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs which have come across his desk over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. What we can see ...