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  • 12:00 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
  • Job Reports

    Graduation was a month ago, young listeners contribute their job-search stories; plus, the politics of picking judges at all levels; and tips for finding a good public restroom in NYC.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Translation and Collaboration

    We’ll look at why fewer works of literature are being translated into English nowadays and discuss the challenges translators face. Then, jazz singer Jane Monheit talks about her career. And artist Art Spiegelman and musician Dan Zanes discuss collaborating with the Pilobolus dance company, and we’ll be joined by Michael Tracy, one of the company’s members. Plus, we’ll learn about how playgrounds have been changing along with our notions of how children play.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Unflinching Pop Stars

    Two of pop music’s biggest provocateurs have new albums this month. We’ll hear the latest from rapper/singer M.I.A. and rocker Liz Phair, and explore their antagonistic relationships with the press. Plus: soprano Angela Meade is an increasingly hot commodity in opera. She’ll sing live in our studio.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • Unflinching Pop Stars

    Two of pop music’s biggest provocateurs have new albums this month. We’ll hear the latest from rapper/singer M.I.A. and rocker Liz Phair, and explore their antagonistic relationships with the press. Plus: soprano Angela Meade is an increasingly hot commodity in opera. She’ll sing live in our studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2933: New Music for String Quartet Plus

    For this New Sounds, we'll hear from the Kronos Quartet's recent release "Floodplain." This record is full of music from Serbia, Azerbajan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon, incorporating other sounds, live and taped.