Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb performs live! Then, Thomas Fleming talks about the 50th anniversary of his book about Bunker Hill. We'll also take a look at the Boston Post Road, and how it influenced U.S. history. Plus, our latest Underreported segments are about the whaling talks and the millions of dollars in government contracts still being awarded to the company that used to be called Blackwater.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Unemployment benefits run out; Lebron James also looking for a new job; Mike Pesca and Franklin Foer on soccer; more on the Guinea elections; and remaking street fairs.
We’re replaying some of our favorite interviews of the past few months. First, psychologist Susan Clancy talks about her book The Trauma Myth, which has stirred up quite a firestorm because of her complex take on sexual abuse. Then, Paula Butturini discusses the challenges her marriage faced after her husband was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire while he was reporting in Romania. Then, John Banville discusses his new novel The Infinities, about the lives of the Greek Gods. Plus, journalist Jeff Biggers discusses the environmental—and human—costs of strip mining.
In this week’s installment of our five-part series Music of the World Cup, we’ll hear how “the beautiful game” has inspired classical composers and musicians, including a look at a new soccer opera. Plus: live music from the Brooklyn dream-pop trio School of Seven Bells.
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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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 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.
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.
In this week’s installment of our five-part series Music of the World Cup, we’ll hear how “the beautiful game” has inspired classical composers and musicians, including a look at a new soccer opera. Plus: live music from the Brooklyn dream-pop trio School of Seven Bells.
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling, from some pretty weird places. Prepare to be overwhelmed with new music for for one – or more bagpipes on this New Sounds.
