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  • 12:00 AM
  • 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 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.

  • 05:30 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 06:00 AM
  • Episode 2

  • 07:00 AM
  • January 29, 2010
    The meaning of "middle class"; covering Haiti after the initial crisis; iPad: awesome or...meh?
  • 08:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 10:00 AM
  • For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

  • 11:00 AM
  • The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

  • 12:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Stead, Colombian Music, Ben Frost

    The 12-year-old heroine of When You Reach Me navigates 1970s New York City all by herself. Pop music from Colombia gets global attention. And the composer Ben Frost uses wolf cries and other scary sounds to make beautiful haunting tunes.

  • 05:00 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.

  • 06:00 PM
  • Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

  • 08:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 09:00 PM
  • ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

  • 10:00 PM
  • Classic and contemporary short fiction read by some of the most iconic voices in today’s world of film, theater and comedy. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City.

     

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2764: New Americans IX: India & Pakistan
    Some of the Indian subcontinent's greatest living artists have lived and worked here in the States for many years, including Ravi Shankar, percussionist Zakir Hussain, double-violinist Shankar, and younger musicians like Rez Abbasi, and Kiran Ahluwalia.

    PROGRAM #2764, New Americans IX: India & Pakistan (First aired on Wednesday, ...