Daily Schedule

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.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Live from WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene performance space, a conversation with local entrepreneurs; politics with The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Newsweek columnist and MSNBC co...

Lilith Fair was once a revolutionary all-female music tour concept. But it’s struggled recently, with a dozen shows cancelled due to slow ticket sales and co-headliner Kelly Clarkson dropping out. Today: A Soundcheck Smackdown debate on whether Lilith Fair is still relevant. Also: the singer-songwriter Ted Leo recently said that his days as a full-time musician might be winding down. We find out what he meant by the comments.

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 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.

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.

For this New Sounds, listen to an hour of world music, beginning in the concert hall with "La Pasion," the world music-tinged setting of the Passion according to St. Mark by Argentinian-American composer Osvaldo Golijov.